Hearing exercise means stimulating the brain

We hear in our brain that is why when doing hearing exercise it means constantly stimulating the brain. When hearing loss is not treated it is not the cochlea, or the hearing organ that get’s damaged.

What happens is auditory deprivation meaning the part of the brain that needs to be exercised is not reached. What is affected is the brain’s ability to hear and separate and distinguish between sounds.

But the brain is a super organ that has incredible plasticity. It can be retrained to listen to sounds differently.Once stimulated with the right amount of amplification we see great benefits in the audibility and detection of speech awareness. You’ll notice dramatic changes once test results are recorded. Essentially the earlier hearing loss is countered by hearing exercise, the better.

Another amazing thing that the brain is capable of is its ability to turn things on and off. Say, someone suffered from hearing loss for 10-15 years would not get an instant fix. Nothing is instantaneous. There is always an adjustment period that includes a couple of tweaks and making some changes.

To illustrate the benefits of stimulating the brain, there’s this article about one of the conductors of the Boston Pops orchestra.  He has a six-year-old son who has a severe hearing loss, but he did not get amplification until the age of six.  Now this is the father of a conductor of one of the greatest symphonies of our country, but for some reason the article goes into detail, they didn’t seek amplification for his son until the age of six and he made a particular comment that his son said one day while they were walking through the woods, “Daddy, the birds chirp.”  He had seen birds all his life but never knew they made noise.

Sometimes you wouldn’t believe what amazing the things people are missing out and they don’t even realize they’re missing out on them.

 

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