Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

Significance: As the use of personal listening devices has increased tremendously in the past decade, noise-induced hearing loss has become a prevalent issue in today’s medical field [1]. A prolonged listening of these devices can lead to a noise induced threshold shift, thus lowering the hearing ability of many individuals, particularly adolescents [2]. Hearing loss can have psychosocial consequences not just for the individual patient but also for his or her relationships with friends and family members [3]. The goal of this activity is to address these implications and provide practitioners with the means to communicate this information.