Tuning forks in the medical profession?

[Diane Hofstetter]

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 Hi Ric,
It's called the Weber test and was introduced in 1834!  Still in use today, it is a test of lateralization (ie. which side is the tone heard on?).  People with normal hearing or with equal amounts of the same type of hearing loss in both ears (conductive, sensorimeural, or mixed) will report a midline sensation.  
People with sensorineural hearing loss in one ear will hear the tone in their better ear.  Patients with conductive hearing loss in one ear will hear the tone in their poorer ear.
It is one of a battery of tests to diagnose the cause and type of a hearing loss.  Some types of hearing loss are cureable, others (such as noise damage) are not.
Diane
  Richard Moody <remoody@midstatesd.net> wrote: 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


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From: Terry Neely 
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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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