@article{ref1,
title="Auditory function in whiplash-associated disorders",
journal="Scandinavian audiology",
year="1999",
author="Tjell, C. and Tenenbaum, A. and Rosenhall, Ulf",
volume="28",
number="4",
pages="203-209",
abstract="This was a consecutive, prospective clinical study on 153 ambulatory patients in a tertiary referral center (i.e., a county hospital). All patients had whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) of at least grade II, according to the Quebec classification. All patients underwent pure-tone audiometry, and their audiograms were compared with ISO standards. Fourteen percent of patients with WAD had a hearing impairment exceeding the 90th percentile of the ISO standards. However, in most cases the hearing was not associated with whiplash injury. A subgroup (33 patients)--with normal hearing or slight hearing impairment according to the audiogram--was selected from the total group of patients with WAD. The 33 selected patients and 33 matched controls were tested with the speech-in-noise test (SRN test). However, 40% of this subgroup of patients with WAD reported hearing problems. As many as 30% of the patients with WAD had an abnormal SRN test result, as against 5% of the controls. Significant relations were found between the SRN test and self-assessed hearing loss, but not between the SRN test and tinnitus.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0105-0397",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}