Excessive Noise Can be Harmful Ear phones are worn snugly as people carrying portable music players walk past her everywhere she goes day in and day out. There is nothing surprising about it, a senior at Chicago University who listens to her iPod in the gym or while studying says. It is also common for people their age to damage their sense of hearing unknowingly. Devices like portable music players or anything connected directly to the ears are feared by researchers to bring nothing but more problems for the user.

Compared to the past, the director of clinical education in audiology from an Indiana university says that they have not seen as much usage as what can be seen nowadays. Devices like these are now listened to not only when people take a jog. In his opinion, senior citizen ears could now be seen in the youth. Students were randomly examined by him and a few colleagues and the results turned out to be an affirmation of how noise induced hearing loss has affected plenty of these youngsters. For someone who is not able to respond well to higher frequency sounds, there is the problem of not being able to …

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