But the most important structures are actually on the inside, and they're known as the inner and middle ear. Iram Ahmad: Inside your middle ear is the nerve that moves the muscles of your face.

By doing exercises like walking on sand or using a balance board, you're essentially giving the vestibular system in your ...

The ossicles move the sound to the inner ear, which sends signals to the brain. Amazing. Sadly, we can't go beyond the eardrum and see all that inner goodness, because we don't want to puncture it.

Many of these problems can be corrected either though medicine or surgery and contrast with the long term hearing problems that arise from damage to the structures in the inner ear. Next chapter: The ...

However, exposure to loud noises can also cause permanent damage to your inner ear or auditory nerve. Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is caused by problems with the structures in the inner ear ...

Dear Doctors: I am 45 years old and have sudden sensorineural hearing loss that is significant. There is no known cause. I’m told that the only option now or in the future is a cochlear implant.

It can also lead to problems understanding fast speech. Damage to the hair-like structures in your inner ear can cause this specific type of hearing loss. Frequency is a measure of the number of ...

This is the most common type of vertigo. It happens because of a problem with your inner ear or the vestibular nerve in your brain. These structures help you stay balanced. One cause of peripheral ...

It often uses old structures (or ancient genes ... small bones that transmit sound waves from the eardrum to the inner ear. Now a new study shows that there was another hand-me-down from fish ...