Fifteen Years of Hearing Aid Use
Jacob Kelly | January 10, 2011After he asked a question, his mother answered. Looking at the table nearby, what he saw was somewhat of a miracle. On the table was his mother’s hearing aid. In a span of 15 years, this was the first time she was able to hear her son’s voice without any mechanical assistance.
They were actually in a cubicle of an acupuncture center at the time where four thin needles were used on the sides of the mother’s neck just by the ears and her jaw. When she was on the medical examining table, the mother had a curious look. Her situation was fine as she said. While her hearing aid lay on the table, those who spoke without raising their voices thought she was wearing it.
A local newspaper ran a report about a center which uses acupuncture, a Chinese method of healing where fine needles are inserted into the body, to treat nerve deafness and this is what caught the attention of the mother and son influencing them to go to Washington from NY. In general, acupuncture is for the prevention of pain but here it serves to be a cure for deafness.
In this case, the term cure is only meant to be used with nerve deafness. There are audiometer results provided before and after treatment. Nerve deafness is the only condition curable with acupuncture and in a population of people with hearing loss 35 to 40 percent develops this. This is a cure not beneficial to those with hearing loss due to punctured ear drums, diseases, and other things.
All of the members of his family underwent acupuncture in Argentina and this is where the doctor’s interest began, and he takes caution in giving patients exaggerated claims about the procedure. An average of eight treatments results in an improvement of 75 to 80 percent. Less improvement is associated with older people. Children from 7 to 12 years of age almost always regained full hearing abilities. Further acupuncture sessions may be required to heighten the benefit of the procedure.
As the US deputy undersecretary of labor for legislative affairs waited for his tenth treatment the other patients were undergoing treatments of their own. From this young Montanan came the precise and unemotional reports given to the Administration tackling the mood of Congress as well as the chances for passage of legislation affecting the Labor Department. Because of a virus attack in 1968, he lost hearing in his left ear. At the beginning of his nerve deafness diagnosis, there were zero chances of recovery. A problem like his could not even be solved with hearing aids.
Any conversations with people were done by asking the people to talk near his good right ear and this is how he adapted to the situation. He cannot steer clear from fearing a loss of hearing in the other ear and his hearing loss can be pretty disturbing especially when it was the hunting season. Reading about the opening of the acupuncture center did nothing for him. There can be much speculation with such a kind of treatment. Still he managed to try acupuncture out and the audiogram was able to inform him or the complete loss of hearing in his left ear.
But he was so afraid of the needle part of the treatment that he needed to back out after the first few were inserted. He heard some beeps from the audiogram machine. More treatments will be obtained if he sees improvements and so far there have been nine treatments with 70 percent of hearing regained.
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