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"But those hairs can get stuck in a bent position." In tinnitus, the hair cells beneath their stereocilia hair component die, and they don't readily regenerate
by adrianwaj 17y ago
"But those hairs can get stuck in a bent position."
In tinnitus, the hair cells beneath their stereocilia hair component die, and they don't readily regenerate, just like brain cells.
I am really skeptical of this treatment for noise induced permanent hearing loss.
- modeless 17y agoTinnitus is not necessarily caused by dying cells or permanent hearing loss. Tinnitus is merely the name for a false perception of sound in the ears (normally but not always a ringing sound) and can be caused by a number of things. This treatment is not intended to cure hearing loss but simply to relieve tinnitus. Edit: well that's the impression I had based on the article, but at their actual site (restoredhearing.ie) they make claims like "restore hearing sensitivity back to the level it was before the damage was incurred" which sound rather dubious.
- adrianwaj 17y agoIt's basically a scam. Temporary threshold shifts revert to normalized hearing from 3 hours to 3 days. Restoration is going to happen anyway: it's like waving a leaf over your stomach for a stomach ache.