![]() A Rinne test should always be accompanied by a Weber test to also detect sensorineural hearing loss and thus confirm the nature of hearing loss.Negative Rinne’s test of 1024 Tuning Fork Frquency suggests Severe Conductive hearing loss of 20-35 dB.Negative Rinne’s test of 512 Tuning Fork Frquency suggests Moderate Conductive hearing loss of 25 dB.Negative Rinne’s test of 256 Tuning Fork Frquency suggests Mild Conductive hearing loss of 10-15 dB.(256 Hz, 512 Hz, 1024 Hz).For routine clinical practice, tuning fork of 512 Hz is ideal. The procedure is done by all three tuning forks. (AC= Air Conduction and BC= Bone Conduction)Ĭonductive Hearing Loss:BC > AC (Rinne’s Negative).Frequency of tuning fork commonly used for performing Rinne’s test is 512 Hz.It compares perception of sounds transmitted by air conduction to those transmitted by bone conduction through the mastoid.Tuning fork tests used to differentiate hearing loss are: Rinne’s test,Weber test,Absolute bone conduction (ABC) test,Schwabach’s test,Bing test,Gelle’s test. ![]()
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