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 Weber & Rinne Tests | Definition & Patient Education | Weber and Rinne test procedure

Today we are going into the topic weber test and Rinne test. So all you have to do is just go through this blog post.

WEBER TEST AND RINNE TEST PROCEDURE

 Imagine a person named John has a hearing problem. There are two important hearing losses to consider sensory neural which means there's something wrong with the auditory nerve or the cochlea and conductive hearing loss when there's a problem with sound passing to the inner ear. We can use two tuning fork tests called Weber's and release tests in order to figure out what's going first up we'll need a 512 Hertz tuning fork.

WEBER TEST

We're going to start with Weber's test but it doesn't really matter which one. You start with we strike the tuning fork so it starts vibrating and then we're gonna place it in the middle of john's forehead we're gonna ask him which side the sound is loudest. Now, normally the sound should be equal in both ears. However, if there is an abnormality in any of the ears the sound will act. Realize this can mean one of two things either there is a conductive hearing loss in the ipsilateral ear or there's a sensory neural hearing loss in the contralateral ear ipsilateral just means the same and contralateral means the other.

RINNE TEST

Now we can move on to the Rinne's test we need to strike the tuning fork and holder on John's mastoid process. We need to ask him if he can hear the sound and then to tell us when you can't hear it anymore this will measure bone conduction. Once he stops hearing the sound through the mastoid process we need to move the tuning fork right next is ear. This will measure air conduction in a normal situation John will say that the sound was louder when the tuning fork was excess ear than when it was on the mastoid process greenies terminology is a bit different. A normal test that is where air conduction is louder than bone conduction is known as a Rinne positive test. An abnormal test on the other hand where bone conduction is louder than air conduction is known as a Rinne- test.

So let's put the two together we know when we did the Weber's test John said it was naturalizing to this ear that means either that ear has a conductive hearing loss or the other ear has a sensory neural hearing loss. Now we can do the Rinne's test. so we need to take the tuning fork place it on John's mastoid process ask him when you can stop hearing it and then place it next to his ear since John is saying that the sound was louder when it was on his mastering process than when it's next to his ear. It means that bone conduction is better than air conduction meaning there's a conductive hearing loss in this ear we'd also repeat Rinne's on the other side to check it's normal if John had a normal release test also known as a positive Rinne's test where the air conduction is better than bone conduction it would mean that the other ear has a sensory neural hearing loss.

So that in total is our Rinne and Weber test and it's one of the most important and well-known methods. I hope you enjoyed this post and there will definitely be more like this coming up as well as analyses of great information about the Rinne and weber test. so please do subscribe if you want to see more and share this post if you liked it thanks for reading........