Why are hearing aids not equal to glasses?
At work, we often compare hearing aids to glasses. After all, they are worn on our heads, all of which can compensate for sensory damage and improve the signal to the brain. Although this comparison helps to eliminate people's concerns about hearing aids (for example, glasses are acceptable to everyone, so hearing aids should be accepted), but the two are still very different.
Glasses
For most people with reduced vision, after wearing a pair of glasses, vision is expected to return to normal. Glasses or contact lenses can make everything clearer. This is because myopia or hyperopia is caused by the deformation of the lens of the eyeball, and the glasses bend into the light waves of the eyeball to correct the vision. The corrected visual signal is transmitted to the functioning visual nervous system, thus completely correcting vision.
Therefore, many people may think that when they are equipped with a pair of hearing aids, they will also recover 100% of their hearing loss. Unfortunately, it usually does not achieve this effect for a number of reasons.
The difference
Vision problems are essentially mechanical delivery problems, and most hearing problems are related to nerves. This is why in most cases we can “correct” vision, but we “treat” hearing loss.
Wearing glasses can correct vision immediately, and treating sensorineural hearing loss is a multi-step process.
For most people, hearing is gradually falling unconsciously until it falls to a more serious level. When you wear a hearing aid for the first time, you will hear a variety of sounds again, which may be the first time you have heard so many voices for many years.
People tend to underestimate the importance of hearing and believe that hearing loss is the inevitable result of age. Or, due to social prejudice, people are often reluctant to accept hearing aids.
This kind of prejudice does not exist on glasses. For example, glasses are a fashionable symbol. Even if many people do not have vision problems, they will wear glasses. However, no one will wear hearing aids as fashionable “ornaments”. However, it is important not to underestimate the importance of hearing. More and more research shows that hearing has an important impact on overall well-being.
Here, it is recommended that you pay attention to your hearing as soon as possible, and the connection between hearing and cognition, the social and emotional aspects of life, and physical health is getting closer. Listening is more than just hearing more, listening is the gateway to health.
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