Info I should know for Assessment 1

Question 1

What test is used to determine if someone has BPPV or dislodging of crystals or otoconica from the otolymph onto the semicircular canals?

Answer 1

Positional tests

Question 2

What assessment can you use to get information from the left and right vestibular systems independently?

Answer 2

caloric testing

Question 3

Which of the following assessments evaluates the ability to combine infomation from the visual, vestibular, and somatosensory systems?

Answer 3

sensory organization test

Question 4

Why does tinnitus occur?

Answer 4

sound produced by the brain; not due to the inner ear acting abnormally.

Question 5

Patients with tinnitus mention that they have trouble with

Answer 5

sleeping, focusing, relaxing, understanding speech, and experience depression.