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耳鸣病人更能体验到助听器的好处
听力医师解释，如果你有耳鸣，助听器可能会帮助到你。助听器可以减小听力损失带来的压力并提供声音治疗的效果。
助听器可能会让你对耳鸣的感觉更好。按照美国听力健康专家的说法，10个耳鸣患者中有6个报告称配戴上助听器后或多或少减轻了耳鸣，总的来说1/5(22%)病人耳鸣得以缓解。
由Better Hearing Institute协会组织的调查中有一些新的发现，参与者主要是北美的230位听力专家。
减小压力
研究者从调查中提及两个原因为什么助听器能减轻耳鸣的压力。
第一个，耳鸣几乎总是与听力损失一同出现。未经干预过的听力损失患者经常发现沟通压力。当使用助听器后，他们显著提高了沟通能力，在与耳鸣的斗争中处于上风。
声音治疗
第二个，助听器可以提供一种声音治疗。助听器放大了背景噪声，耳鸣带来的可觉察噪声就不那么突出了。
当然，也有少于2%的耳鸣患者配戴上助听器感觉到耳鸣的加重，39%的患者没有感觉到耳鸣的改善。
Tinnitus patients feel better with hearing aids
If you have tinnitus, a hearing aid may help you, according to hearing specialists. Hearing aids may reduce the stress of bad hearing and offer sound therapy.
Hearing aids are likely to make you feel better about your tinnitus. According to hearing health specialists in the United States, six in 10 tinnitus patients report that they experience some degree of relief when wearing hearing aids, and a total of one in five (22 percent) receive major relief.
These were among the findings of a survey conducted by the Better Hearing Institute among 230 hearing specialists in North America.
Reduce stress
The researchers behind the survey mention two reasons why hearing aids may alleviate tinnitus.
First, tinnitus is almost always accompanied by hearing loss. People with untreated hearing loss often find communicating stressful. When using hearing aids, they increase their ability to communicate. This reduces their stress level, leaving them better able to cope with their tinnitus.
Sound therapy
Second, hearing aids may offer a kind of sound therapy. As the hearing aid amplifies background noise, the perceived noises of tinnitus become less prominent.
Less than two percent of patients experience a worsening of their tinnitus when wearing hearing aids, while 39 percent receive no benefit.
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