Hearing damage caused by blast waves is a frequent and common injury for Service
members. However, most studies have focused on high-intensity blast exposures that are
known to cause moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), and fewer studies have
investigated the progressive hearing damage caused by low-intensity blast exposures
(below mild TBI). In this paper, we report our recent study in chinchillas to investigate the
auditory function changes over the time course after repetitive exposures to low-intensity …