Tinnitus can be a tragically disabling condition, leading to permanent loss of many previously enjoyable activities, such as reading a book in peace and quiet, sitting still with a loved one, having any quiet time, or even sleeping. The volume of the sounds of tinnitus may vary from mildly irritating to unbearably bothersome. Most tinnitus or hearing loss cases should be handled as serious injury cases, which means exceptional attention to detail is required, and familiarity with tinnitus proves very useful.
With tinnitus, there are many potential causes, including age-related hearing loss, working around loud noises, hobbies that involve loud noises, various vascular problems, aneurysms, tumors, or accidents that involved head trauma or sudden exposure to a very loud noise. Your tinnitus attorney can overcome these arguments more easily if you had sudden onset tinnitus after the accident or noise exposure, particularly noticeable, extreme onset within 48 hours of the accident. For starters, if you have not told your doctor about your condition, and been diagnosed with tinnitus, and tested by an audiologist for tinnitus (not just hearing loss), then that should be your first order of business. Additionally, you should go to the American Tinnitus Association website, and listen to the sounds of tinnitus. The American Tinnitus Association will also send you a workbook, as part of your membership. Generally, doctors who diagnose hearing loss and tinnitus know within a few weeks whether and to what extent you have permanent hearing loss. The most common cause of tinnitus is excessive noise, generally considered sounds above 85 decibels.
I am available to help you determine whether your tinnitus or hearing loss case might justify a lawsuit. Also, much of the fighting consists of ambushes, bombings and firefights, which come suddenly and unexpectedly, giving soldiers no time to use their military-issued hearing protection. Hearing damage has been a battlefield risk ever since the introduction of explosives and artillery, and the U.S. The military has responded over the past three years with better and easier-to-use earplugs, greater efforts to educate troops about protecting their hearing, and more testing in the war zone to detect ear injuries. The results aren't in yet on the new measures, but Army officials believe they will significantly slow the rate of new cases of hearing damage, said Col. The number of servicemen and servicewomen on disability because of hearing damage is expected to grow 18 percent a year, with payments totaling $1.1 billion annually by 2011, according to an analysis of VA data by the American Tinnitus Association. Given today's fearsome weaponry, even the best hearing protection is only partly effective — and only if it's properly used.
And for the first time in American warfare, for the past three years, hearing specialists or hearing-trained medics have been put on the front lines instead of just at field hospitals, Hoffer said.
Marines and soldiers are getting hearing tests before going on patrol and when they return to base if they were exposed to bombs or gunfire. Many people have experienced a feeling of reduced hearing and an unwanted ringing sound after a night out in a noisy club.
Registered Office: Action on Hearing Loss is the trading name of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID).
An early study in 2003 on 566 recruits showed a 25 to 27 percent reduction in permanent hearing loss. Note whether each different type of sound is similar to what you hear, as well as the volume of the sound you experience as a result of your tinnitus, on a scale of 1 to 10.
But, depending on what exactly triggered your tinnitus, a lawsuit for your tinnitus is definitely worth exploring. Ryan Kahlor listens for sounds as his hearing is tested at Balboa Navy Medical Center in San Diego, Feb. Nearly 70,000 of the more than 1.3 million troops who have served in the two war zones are collecting disability for tinnitus, a potentially debilitating ringing in the ears, and more than 58,000 are on disability for hearing loss, the VA said. But the sheer number of injuries and their nature — particularly the high incidence of tinnitus — came as a surprise to military medical specialists and outside experts. The hearing damage ranges from mild, such as an inability to hear whispers or low pitches, to severe, including total deafness or a constant loud ringing that destroys the ability to concentrate.
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