hearing problems are common after traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to inner ear is directly related to the central nervous system. Ringing in the ear (tinnitus) and hearing are two of the most reported side effects traumatic brain injury. Some other hearing problems that can result from brain damage are hearing (normal situations seem very loud); difficulties filter one set of sounds from background noise; and hearing Agnosia (also called pure word deafness). Auditory Agnosia is a situation where the person is unable to recognize the meaning of certain sounds.

After TBI, hearing problems can occur for various reasons, both hardware and nervous system, especially in the inner ear and / or temporal lobes have been damaged. External bleeding in the ear canal, middle ear damage, cochlear injury and / or temporal lobe lesions can all cause auditory dysfunction.

Children who suffer TBI often face more problems in the field of communication, acquiring new information, spatial orientation, completed projects, impulse control, and social conversation.

The inner ear is made up of a series of delicate membranes, which can easily rupture during a head injury. The cochlea, which is important spiral-shaped bone in the ear can be damaged by a strong blow to the head causes hearing. Other types of membrane damage may cause hearing loss as well as dizziness (vertigo) and nausea. Sometimes surgery can correct the damage to the inner ear.

Because hearing loss limit or take away one of the primary means by which we send hearing tends to complicate many other side effects, brain damage, mainly intellectual and social problems. Many TBI victims suffer when cognitive issues such as difficulty finding words, and these problems are only exacerbated if the patient can not hear what is going on around him.

Fortunately, for some TBI victims, hearing problems disappear a few weeks after the accident which led to the patient’s brain, but other problems hearing will last indefinitely. Since many hearing problems can not even be detected by the patient after TBI, it is recommended that anyone suffering from traumatic brain injury to be evaluated by audiologist, even if nothing seems to be wrong with the hearing of the victim.