Here is some good info on how to protect your ears as you embark upon your new music career. This subject is often overlooked in the music industry, but hearing loss is a very serious issue indeed. Thousands of musicians, sound engineers, and DJ’s fail to protect their ears until they start to notice signs of hearing loss…at which point it’s too late in many cases. Hearing loss is generally not something that can be restored, but it can surely be prevented quite easily and comfortably.
The inner canals of the human ear are lined with millions of hair-like "cilia". The presence of healthy cilia increases the sensitivity and quality of hearing. I don’t want to get too technical here, but basically what happens when there is hearing damage is that the cilia in your ears get bent back or broken when certain decibel levels and/or sound frequencies are reached. The problem is that cilia does not grow back or regenerate as if a hair was pulled out of your head, and every time cilia is damaged your quality of hearing decreases. (…)
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