Disorders Of The Auditory System

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Otalgia

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Ear Pain

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Autophony

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Head in the barrel effect (Person's voice is louder/echo) common in hearing aide users.

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Recruitment

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Abnormal growth of loudness.

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Paracusis Willisii

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People with conductive hearing loss do better in anoisy situation than in quiet situation (Lombard Effect)

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Hyperacusis

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People are sesntive to sounds. The sounds also appear to sound iouder.

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OAE Disorder of the Pinna (Auricle)

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Localization can be affected

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OAE disorder of the Ear Canal

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Sound cannot go through.

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OAE disorder of the Tympanic Membrane

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Stiffing/Hardening and holes in the TM.

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What is Microtia?

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Small Pinn

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What is Anotia?

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Absence of Pinna.

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What is Atresia?

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No ear canal

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What is Stenosis?

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Narrowing of ear canal

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What is collaspsing?

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(Not a disorder) Headphones can cause ear canal to collapse (individauls whose skin is more looser) e.g. children or elder.

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External Otitis

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(Swimmer's Ear) Inflammation of outer ear (bacteria to the ear canal/allergic reaction)

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Blockage

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Wax, bugs, other material etc (Type B Typanogram)

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Physical Damage to Ear Canal

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Osteatomas (bony tumor), exostoses (bony protrusion) (e.g from cold water). (Cysts or growths).

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Tymapnic Membrane (TM) Disorders: Perforation

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TYpe B Tympanogram: Holes in the eardrum, loud sounds over 40 dB, and hole tends to hearl naturally or by surgery of the TM (myngoplastity, tympanoplasily).

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What is Tympanoscleoris?

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Hadening/Stiffing if TM, ossicles tend to stiffen over time also a result of ear infections (calcium deposits) Type As Typanogram

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Middle Ear Disorders- Cholesteatoma

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(Pseudo tumor, skin of the ear cancal which grows like a tumor. Also can cause otorrhea.

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What is Ossicular Chain Discontinuity?

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Disruption of ossicle's movements. This can lead to conductive loss. (Type Ad tymapnogram)

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What is otosclerosis?

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Stapes bone is fixated in oval window. Type As Typanogram (Carhart's Notch at 2000 Hz sensorineual hearing loss, starts rising than flats, shcwartzee sign)

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What is Malleus Fixation?

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Malleus can not move (conductive loss) infections, trauma, genetics etc.

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What is Eustachian Tube Dysfuction?

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Prevention of estuashian tube from opening, this can lead to pressure changes. Symptoms: ear pain, acute otitis media, risk of ear infection, ear fullness, tinnitus, dizzy/vertigo

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What is Barotrauma?

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Injury sustained from failure to equalize the pressure of an air-containing space with that of the surrounding environment.

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What is Glomus Jugulare Tumor?

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A tumor of a part of the temporal bone (which involves the middle and inner ear structures).

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What is Otitis Media (OM)?

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Inflammation of the middle ear (ear infection)

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Acute OM

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Sudden onset of symptoms (e.g. otalgia, TM redness, fever etc.)

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Recurrent OM

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3x or more in 6 months.

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Chronic OM

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Longer than 8 weeks

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Adhesive OM

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Thickening of fibrous tissue of TM and retraction of TM into ME due to negative pressure

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OM with Effusion

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Fluid in the middle ear cavity.

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Serous OM

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Thin, watery liquid.

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Mucoid OM

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Thicker fluid.

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Suppurative OM

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Infected fluid

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Persistent OM

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OM with effusion for 6 weeks or longer

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What is Presbycusis?

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Presbycusis is the loss of hearing that gradually occurs in most individuals as they grow older. (Symptoms: slurred speech, high pitch sounds hard to distinguish, sounds can be overly loud, tinnitus).

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Meniere's Disease

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Meniere's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that causes spontaneous episodes of vertigo — a sensation of a spinning motion — along with fluctuating hearing loss, ringing in the ear (tinnitus), and sometimes a feeling of fullness or pressure in your ear. In many cases, Meniere's disease affects only one ear.

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Labrynthtis

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Irritation and swelling of the inner ear. It can cause vertigo and hearing loss.

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Acoustic Neromma or Vestibular Schwannoma

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Acoustic neuroma is an uncommon, noncancerous (benign) and usually slow-growing tumor that develops on the main nerve leading from your inner ear to your brain.

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Sudden Idiopathic SNHL

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Sudden hearing loss

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Multiple Scelosis (MS)

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be an autoimmune disease and progressive neurodegenerative condition. It affects the nervous system. People with MS may experience hearing loss or deafness.

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Central Deafness

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Hearing loss or impairment resulting from defects in the central nervous system (as in the auditory cortex) rather than in the ear itself or the auditory nerve.

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Erroneous Hearing Loss

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Patients who claim to have hearing loss but actually have normal hearing sensitivity or a lesser hearing loss than is portrayed

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Auditory Neuropathy/Dys-Synchrony

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A pateint displays normal outer hair cell function and abnormal neural function at the level of the VIIIth (vestibulo-cochlear) nerve.

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Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)

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Also known as central auditory processing disorder, is for a variety of disorders that affect the way the brain processes auditory information. Individuals with APD usually have normal structure and function of the outer, middle and inner ear (peripheral hearing). However, they cannot process the information the same way as others do.

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Auditory Training

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Auditory training therapy is an alternative treatment for kids who have trouble processing what they hear.

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Environmental Strategies

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Reduce noise level, FM Unit, preferential seating etc.