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What is Clinical Masking In Hearing Tests?: Clinical masking allows accurate assessment for each ear separately by withdrawing or preventing the non-test ear or (NTE) from participating in hearing while testing the other ear (test ear/ TE). Clinical masking must be...
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Tinnitus and Medical line of Treatment: Tinnitus is the abnormal perception of sounds for which there is no external stimulus (see, e.g., Tyler, 2000 2006; Snow 2004; Henry, Dennis, & Schechter 2005). Tinnitus is typically associated with a wide variety of...
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What is Hearing Loss and its type?: Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium. Hearing Loss A person who is not able to hear...
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Disorders of vestibular system cause vertigo and are divided into: Peripheral, which involve vestibular end organs and their 1st order neurons (i.e. the vestibular nerve). The cause lies in the internal ear or the VIIIth nerve. They are responsible for 85% of all...
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Functional (Non organic) Hearing Loss or Pseudohypacusis: Functional hearing loss involves a psychological or emotional problem, rather than physical damage to the hearing pathway. Individuals with this type of hearing loss do not seem to hear or respond; yet, in...
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Up-Down and Staircase Procedure of Estimating Minimum Audible Levels: It is more formal threshold determination strategy in which the threshold is approached from below in 5 dB steps. This involves two tactics Whenever the patient does not hear the tone (–), we...
