It is constantly there,” he told the Associated Press.
When it happened, I didn’t feel my leg gone. Ryan Kelly of Austin, Texas, tinnitus is a constant reminder of the trauma he experienced on the battlefield near Baghdad in 2003. In veterans with tinnitus, 72 percent had anxiety, 60 percent had depression and 58 percent had both conditions, according to the Hearing Health Foundation.įor former Staff Sgt. Hearing loss and tinnitus affect a soldier’s ability to perform his or her job, but they also affect mental health. When the earplugs became loose, it was difficult for the wearer or another person looking at the earplug to tell it was loose. Moldex’s lawsuit claimed the “earplugs have dangerous design defects that can cause them to loosen in the wearer’s ear.” Because the earplug stem is too short, “it is difficult to insert the plug deeply into some wearer’s ear canals.”Īccording to the lawsuit, “when the earplug is inserted into the ear according to standard fitting instructions, the basal edge of the third flange of the non-inserted end of the earplug is prone to press against some wearers’ ear canals and fold back to its original shape, thereby loosening the seal.” If a soldier wears the plug with the yellow end in the ear - in the “open” or “unblocked” position - the plugs block or significantly reduce loud noises such as battlefield explosions but still allow the wearer to hear spoken orders or approaching enemy combatants. Wearing the plug with the olive-colored end in the ear - in the “closed” or “blocked” position - blocks all sound like a traditional earplug would. Unlike with most earplugs, Aearo designed these plugs to provide two options for sound reduction depending on how a soldier wears them. The dual-ended Combat Arms earplugs are non-linear, selective attenuation earplugs.
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