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Sufferers of industrial deafness brought about after working in excessively noisy environments or caused by a lack adequate hearing protection from high noise levels are able to make a personal injury compensation claim against their employer if the employer is deemed to have been negligent in their treatment of the worker.
Research into the effects of hearing loss and how the body copes with reduced physiological function is ongoing and results of a study, published in March 2009, appeared to show that the brains of adult animals suffering hearing loss have the ability to re-route the sense of touch into the areas of the brain that deal with hearing.
The phenomenon is known as cross-modal plasticity and suggests that a damaged sensory system can be replaced with one of the intact systems.
It has long been mooted that people who lose a sense, such as sight, find that another, hearing perhaps, is intensified, and the scientific ideology behind cross-modal plasticity aims to prove the shifting of electrical stimulus in the areas of the brain concerned; with the crossover and interaction of two separate sense areas showing up on MRI scans.
However, this cross-over can cause problems when hearing loss is not total, as the sensory stimulus can cause confusion in the interpretation of residual hearing stimuli.
Alex Meredith, a professor in the VCU Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, said, "Our study indicates that hearing deficits in adult animals result in a conversion of their brain's sound processing centres to respond to another sensory modality, making the interpretation of residual hearing even more difficult.
"Whether this becomes a positive feedback cycle of increasing hearing difficulty is currently under investigation, but these findings raise the possibility that even mild hearing loss in adult humans can have serious and perhaps progressive consequences."
Personal injury compensation with the experts at YouClaim
We believe expert research helps everyone do their jobs better and our industrial injury lawyers keep abreast of all noise induced hearing loss litigation news so that they may best handle your compensation claim. If you have suffered industrial deafness as a result of the negligence of your employer, our personal injury solicitors will do their utmost to get you the compensation you deserve.
What's more, apart from the most complex medical negligence cases where certain charges for medical reports are required in advance, we never ask our clients to pay legal fees and costs. We have developed a no win no fee system that completely protects claimants from all fees, even in a lost case. And in won cases any charges that have had to be paid will be reimbursed.
Further, with YouClaim, claimants are guaranteed to receive 100% of any compensation awarded; we will never take a penny once a sum has been agreed.
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Alternatively, you may wish to fill in our online claim form giving us brief details of your industrial deafness claim and then one of our personal injury solicitors will look into the details before we discuss going ahead with the claim.
