Hearing loss comes gradually. Sometimes we do not notice anything till the last moment, but if you play drums or listen to loud music during a long time, you can be assured that your hearing weakens…

For example, such legend-man as George Martin had to desert the stage because of hearing loss.

Hearing cannot be restored by itself. If hearing is harmed, there’s nothing that can be done and there’s no return. Fortunately, our brain is capable of adapting, and now there are techniques, which can reduce some consequences of the trauma.

The majority of people think that “impairment of hearing” is a condition, when you become deaf. Usually, on the contrary, you start to hear too much. Let’s take, for example, ringing in the ears. Yes, everyone had it after some concert or dancing in club. Then you go to bed and hear it. This is a warning sign to all of us, but we do not pay attention to it, because next morning it gets cleared away.

But for someone morning passes, but ringing remains. And in some days you understand that things are in a bad way and also that this ringing will not leave you any more. Moreover, the horror is in fact that actually nothing is possible to do; you can only stop further progressing.

Nobody knows what actually happens. Some doctors say that damage of hair follicles in an internal ear plays the main role, but in fact it is necessary to understand ears as conductor of information to brain. Look, for example, it’s not eyes that see everything around you, but it is the brain that interprets signals from eyes and produces images. It is the same with hearing. If the mechanism of sending signals to the brain is damaged, of course, it will influence hearing.

So you must understand whether it is an ear or perception of a signal is damaged. But it is not always possible. In the most extreme cases, when surgeon ablates acoustical nerve, so that people could not hear this ringing any more, after operation (which leaves patient deaf) some of them still have this sound, when for other people procedure passed successfully. So, unfortunately, we do not know details and come to terms with what happened.

Long-term exposure to loud sounds is known to damage hearing of musicians, especially drummers. Fortunately, now idols of youth use protection methods and say about it in interviews, that’s why because of a positive example young drummers start taking care of their hearing, but psychological barrier is still too strong. Still those people, who already have problems, use earplugs more, than healthy musicians. So, a young drummer, take this information seriously and do not neglect protection earplugs during concerts and trainings.

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