auditory nerve

Electrostimulation: Treatment, Effects & Risks

Electrostimulation involves contacting a motor nerve by means of applied voltage. This contacting causes an action potential to reach the muscle, causing it to contract. Therapeutic electrostimulation is used primarily for peripheral paralysis and is intended to prevent muscle atrophy. What is electrostimulation? Electrostimulation is therapeutic stimulation by an applied voltage source. Electrostimulative procedures are … Electrostimulation: Treatment, Effects & Risks

Audiometry: Treatment, Effect & Risks

Audiometry is used to examine and measure functional parameters of the auditory organ and to delineate sound conduction and sound perception disorders. The variety of procedures used covers a wide spectrum from simple tuning fork tests to complex subjective and objective sound and speech audiometric procedures. Objective procedures also include electrical brainstem audiometry for objective … Audiometry: Treatment, Effect & Risks

Pediatric Audiology: Treatment, Effects & Risks

Pediatric audiology deals with childhood hearing, voice, swallowing, and speech disorders, as well as disorders of speech development. Together with phoniatrics, pediatric audiology forms an independent specialty that was managed as a sub-specialty of otolaryngology (ENT) until 1993. Pediatric audiology, like phoniatrics, has a strong interdisciplinary character because the problems that arise are often not … Pediatric Audiology: Treatment, Effects & Risks