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What Causes Tinnitus and How to Get Relief
What causes Tinnitus or ringing in your ears is a question that is being asked by millions of people around the world as they try to figure out the reason for their ailment.
Tinnitus can be caused by several different things with loud noise and damage to the cochlea being the prime reasons for developing tinnitus. (see image below)
Your ears are very sensitive and they are obviously designed that way in order to allow you the ability to hear things at many different levels of volume. There are over 15,000 micro hair cells found inside the ear and they can be damaged very easily.
There are also very small bones in your ear that vibrate and help to amplify sounds that you hear. They are highly sophisticated and word better than any mechanically made amplifiers.
 This illustration gives you a general idea of what your inner ear looks like.
When the movement of the tiny bones
in the middle ear vibrate the oval window of the cochlea, waves are created in the fluid surrounding the cochlea. These waves bend the basilar membrane in place corresponding to specific frequencies.
Hair cells in those places then brush against the overlying tectorial membrane (shown in blue) generating an electrical impulse which gets sent to the brain.
The brain interprets those electrical impulses as sound. The nerve endings are shown in yellow in the illustration.
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It’s important to protect your hearing from an early age. If you are having problems with tinnitus and need relief, check out this tinnitus help site.
