Can listening to loud music really hurt your ears? For those who like putting on earphones and cranking up the volume, the unfortunate answer is yes—loud music can indeed cause temporary and even permanent hearing loss. Noise-induced hearing loss can occur at any age, but it is a preventable condition. Doctors at Makati Medical Center’s ENT Diagnostic Center breaks down the causes of noise-induced hearing loss, and gives us advice on how to protect our ears against damaging noise levels. HOW SOUND TRAVELS According to Makati Med’s Victoria Sarmiento, MD, “Our ears have three areas—the outer, middle, and inner ear. The eardrum (tympanic membrane) divides the middle and outer ear. When you hear something, the sound vibrations or sound waves are funneled from the outer part, down the ear canal where the sound hits the eardrum, causing it to vibrate.” These vibrations pass through three small bones in the middle [...]
