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What is frequency transposition or frequency compression?
A positive dead region identified through Threshold Equalizing Noise Test (TEN) can indicate the need for this amplification feature.
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What is enhanced sensitivity to excessive reaction to touch or sound.
Hyperalgesia and Hyperacusis both share this in common.
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What is pulsatile tinnitus?
Benign tumor, color of the sunset results in this vascular described tinnitus
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What is 10 dB above the MML for one minute
Residual inhibition is administered at
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What is Progressive Tinnitus Management
Aimed at helping patients to develop individualized plans to manage their
reactions to tinnitus with the use of sound and coping strategies |
What is Bekesy Audiometry?
This audiometric test involves instructing the patient that he must press the response button as long as the presented tone is heard and let go when the tone is not heard
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What is
This staple cookie spice commonly found on lemon chicken was also utilized by Pliny the Elder in the 1600s to reduce his tinnitus
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What is Salicylate?
This chemical found in over the counter Aspirin can be responsible for calming or exciting tinnitus
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What is the Tinnitus Functional Index
Relaxation and Sense of Control are two subtests of this subjective burden assessment
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What is working memory, IQ
Patients with significant tinnitus and vestibular dysfunction often showed decrease in these areas prior to treatment and even immediately after
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What is Retro-cochlear pathology?
With Békésy Type 4: A continuous tracing that is 20 dB lower that pulsed tone tracing suggests this origin of loss.
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What is isolation and reduced activity
These two factors may influence the increase of tinnitus burden in aging people
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What is neurons showing dramatically altered temporal firing properties (e.g., increased burst firing) – caused by decreased intracellular calcium
Treating tinnitus with calcium is based on this happening at the neuron level.
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What is assist in legal, referral, simulation, guidelines, treatment, change assurrance
Reasons beneficial to quantify tinnitus
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What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Focuses on repairing a person’s attitudes, beliefs, and thoughts so that they
become based on factual information instead of assumptions and prejudices |
What is bone conduction sensitivity acuity level?
A patient with this audiogram should undergo this specialized test and via this transducer.
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What is the Gate Control Theory of Pain
The inhibitory interneuron provides presynaptic inhibition to both the nociceptive and non-nociceptive neurons, reducing the excitation of the transmission cells, this is called
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What is Somatic Tinnitus
Tinnitus symptoms (e.g., loudness, laterality, tonality) that change with body movements, including head-and-neck maneuvers or stimulation of head and neck areas
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What is pitch matching, loudness match, and minimum masking level (MML)
CPT Code 92625 must include
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What is a hearing aid
This technology provides amplification and allows gain measures to be set to patient's hearing needs
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What is the minimum contralateral interference level (MCIL)?
In a patient with a non organic hearing loss, this is the point at which they stop responding that they heard a stimulus.
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What is temporal, duration and impact of tinnitus
These three framed questions are critical when classifying tinnitus
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What is Desynchronization or inducing reorganizational changes through electrical stimulation or noise masking
Treatment of Tinnitus at the Networks level includes this
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What is Loudness Detection Level
Stopping at 90/95 dB HL is acceptable because those with normal hearing also cease tolerance at these levels
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What is masking, distraction, habituation, neuromodulation
Four approaches to Sound Therapy
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