Tuning forks in the medical profession?

[Richard Moody]

When I was a kid somehow I ended up in a doctor's office and he struck a
large tuning fork and put it on top of my head.    He asked me if I could
hear it in my left ear and then in the right ear, and which ear it was
loudest.   I could hear it in both ears.   I would like to know if this
test is known and what it was for.     ---ric


----- Original Message -----
From: Terry Neely <tlneely@mindspring.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: Tuning forks in the medical profession?


| My father in law war an orthopedic surgeon. He used a tuning fork like
you
| described to test the integrity of a bone repair in the operating room.
If
| the repair was tight, it would transmit sound.
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