Rinne Test
Other Names
- Rinne Test
Purpose
- To attempt to distinguish between sensorineural and conductive hearing loss
Description
- Requires a tuning fork
- Place the base of a struck tuning fork on the mastoid bone behind the ear.
- Have the patient indicate when sound is no longer heard.
- Move fork (held at base) beside ear and ask if now audible.
- Normal test
- Air conduction > bone conduction
- Patient can hear fork at ear
- Conductive loss
- Bone conduction > air conduction
- Patient will not hear fork at ear.
Pathology
Evidence
- Unknown