Ear Assessment

Question 1

Conductive loss

Answer 1

Blockage in external or middle ear impairing sound conduction to inner ear

Problem visible

Question 2

Sensorineural loss

Answer 2

Inner ear disorder involving cochlear nerve/neural impulse impairment

Problem not visible

Question 3

Rinne Test - Conductive Loss

Answer 3

Bone conduction (BC) > Air conduction (AC)

Question 4

Rinne Test - Sensorineural Loss

Answer 4

Air conduction (AC) > Bone conduction (BC)

Question 5

Weber Test - Conductive Loss

Answer 5

Hear better with impaired ear via bone conduction

Sound lateralizes to bad ear

Question 6

Weber Test - Sensorineural Loss

Answer 6

Hear better with ear that doesn’t have nerve dysfunction

Sound laterlizes to good ear (deficiency in impaired ear)

Question 7

Decibel threshold for hearing impairment

Answer 7

Prolonged sound > 75 decibels

Question 8

Hearing Handicap Inventory for Elderly (HHIE)

Answer 8

Hearing loss test with socioemotional effects component

Question 9

Brief Hearing Loss Screener

Answer 9

Hearing loss test with risk associated with advancing age, gender, and education level of PT

Question 10

CN VIII - Acoustic/Vestibulocochlear Nerve

Vestibular function

Answer 10

Balance

Question 11

CN VIII - Acoustic/Vestibulocochlear Nerve

Cochlear function

Answer 11

Hearing

Question 12

Otalgia

Answer 12

Earache

Question 13

Otorrhea

Answer 13

Ear discharge

Question 14

Tinnitus

Answer 14

Ear ringing

Question 15

How to tell if it’s External Otitis Media

Answer 15

Press on tragus/pull on auricle

EXT. Otitis media only in external and middle ear

Question 16

How to tell if it’s Otitis Media

Answer 16

Press on mastoid process

otitis media only in inner ear

Question 17

Subjective Vertigo

Answer 17

PT feels they are spinning (whole body)

Question 18

Objective Vertigo

Answer 18

PT feels room is spinning around them

Question 19

Presbycusis

Answer 19

Gradual sensorineural hearing loss beginning @ age 50.