Widex Comprehensive Hearing Assessment (aged 18 or above)

Widex Comprehensive Hearing Assessment (aged 18 or above)

• The peripheral hearing system consists of outer ear, middle ear and inner ear, which are responsible to transmit and transform auditory signals into nerual signals to brains. In order to acccess the function of the peripheral hearing system, a comprehensive hearing assessment should be performed.
• This comprehensive hearing assessment include otoscopic examination, Pure Tone Audiometry (PTA) and Impedenace Audiometry(IA), which would be performed by our qualified hearing professionals. After assessment, test results would be explained and appropriate management and intervention would be advised.

Comprehensive Hearing Assessment Includes:

1. Otoscopic examination
   To identify the abnormalities at the outer ear region, such as earwax occlusion, perforated eardrum, otitis externa and etc.
2. Pure Tone Audiometry
   The client is required to listen to different pure tones (250 to 8000 Hz) at different intensity. The client would be instructed to press the response button when the tones are audible. The sounds would be played through headphones or insert phones, and a small vibrating device placed behind the ear.
   To assess client's hearing ability; The degree and type of hearing loss would be identified.
3. Tympanometry
   To access the condition of middle ear and idenitfy the middle ear pathology, such as ear drum perforation and middle ear effusion
4. Acoustic Reflexes
   To measure involuntary contraction of the stapedius muscle elicited by loud sounds