This video discusses the causes of hearing loss, particularly in the workplace due to noise exposure. It also covers hearing loss resulting from traumatic injuries, such as car accidents. The importance of proper diagnosis by experts like audiologists is emphasized for successful claims.
Common causes include long-term exposure to loud noise in workplaces and traumatic injuries from accidents. Even concussions can lead to hearing loss.
To prove work-related hearing loss, you need a diagnosis from an expert and evidence of noise exposure at your workplace. This can help in filing a workers' compensation claim.
If you experience hearing loss after an accident, seek medical attention immediately. A specialist can assess the damage and help determine if it's related to the accident.
When I receive calls about hearing loss, one of the most common I have is long-term exposure in the working environment. These are people who work in factories or their job is around a lot of noise, a lot of noise pollution. And in those cases, most of the time the employer has not provided them with adequate hearing protection. And these cases fall under the workers' compensation arena. But hearing loss can also be the result of a traumatic injury, say from a car accident or a truck wreck. In these cases, there can be damage through a traumatic brain injury to the auditory nerve. There are a lot of causes for hearing loss in a traumatic injury or a traumatic accident. Believe it or not, even a concussion can result in long-term prolonged hearing loss. Now in order to be successful for our clients, the key is getting these people to the appropriate expert, an audiologist, an ENT. The diagnosis has to be made and the source of the hearing loss identified. And at McCutcheon and Hamner, we have developed a team of experts who we can send our clients to who can not only diagnose the hearing loss but assist us in determining the cause, whether it's due to prolonged noise exposures such as noise pollution or is it a traumatic event? Is it a concussion? Is it a traumatic brain injury? And those are the key to winning those cases for our clients.
