Impact of Low-Level Blast Exposure From Military Training and Career Cumulation on Hearing Outcomes

Military members exposed to blasts in a training environment and accumulated through a career experience adverse hearing and audiometric impacts. However, better measures of hearing injury should be pursued to improve understanding of injury mechanism and injury progression which may inform risk and medical interventions. Blast-induced hearing injuries are dynamic and change over time between acute and chronic phases which are further exacerbated with multiple blast exposures presented consecutively.