Cochlear implants, or cochlear implants, are worn for the rest of the patient’s life for those who need them to establish artificial hearing. The device converts mechanical sounds in the environment into electrical signals, which are transmitted to the cochlea where they are used to stimulate the remaining auditory nerve through electrodes, allowing the patient to experience hearing.
Through the implantation of the cochlear implant and with the postoperative auditory-verbal rehabilitation training, it can improve the patient’s ability to perceive the environmental sound and speech sound, and assist in improving the ability of lip-reading; it can help the patient to recover and establish a certain level of auditory-verbal level, and the tinnitus symptom of some patients can be alleviated as well.
After wearing the cochlear implant, the systematic auditory-verbal rehabilitation training can eliminate or reduce the patients’ psychological barriers, and encourage them to actively engage in social daily speech communication.
Patients who are eligible for cochlear implant surgery need to wear the device for the rest of their lives in order to better enhance their cognitive ability, integrate into normal social life and improve their quality of life.