What are the treatments for sensorineural hearing loss?

The ears are people's second pair of eyes. Through the ears, people can receive external information, which is processed by the brain and combined with the eyes to form the five senses of human beings. However, ear injury will affect people's five senses, causing people to encounter various inconveniences in life. For example, sensorineural hearing loss is a relatively common disease. So, what are the treatments for sensorineural hearing loss?

1. Hearing aids:

It is a sound amplification device that helps the deaf hear sounds. It is mainly composed of a miniature transmitter, an amplifier, headphones, ear molds, a power supply, etc. There are many types of hearing aids. For individual users, there are air conduction and bone conduction, box type and ear-level type (including glasses type, behind-the-ear type, and in-the-ear type), monaural and binaural hearing aids. The correct selection can only be made after a detailed examination by an otolaryngologist or audiologist.

2. Cochlear implant:

Also known as electronic cochlear implant or cochlear implant. It is suitable for young and middle-aged people with bilateral extreme deafness, who are ineffective with high-power hearing aids and have no active lesions in the ears. X-ray or CT examination shows that the inner ear structure is normal, there is no response to the electrocochlear graph, and electrical stimulation of the promontory or round window can induce a brainstem response.

3. Auditory language training:

It is still a measure to maximize the use of residual hearing and other sensory organs to train vocalization or speech ability. The two complement each other and neither can be neglected. Training should start from preschool age. It is advisable to use various methods (sound toys, musical instruments) to awaken children's hearing as early as possible. Develop rough sound discrimination skills. Use windmills, blowing musical instruments and other methods to increase lung capacity, prolong breathing, and make the tongue move flexibly. Then use a loud and clear voice to patiently teach the deaf children to pronounce and speak word by word in their ears for a long time. Use a mirror to correct the mouth shape, touch the cheeks, throat and abdomen of the parents or teachers, etc. to experience the relationship between the strength and pitch of the voice.