The thresholds of audibility for 100 and for 1000 cps have been measured on five groups of originally naive listeners by various experimental techniques. All the experiments showed improvement of the threshold with practice. The improvement was greater at 100 cps than at 1000 cps. Pretraining at 1000 cps did not affect the threshold change at 100 cps. The improvement of the threshold with practice was enhanced considerably by reward and feedback.
Most metatarsophalangeal joint capsular tears occur at the distal lateral border of the plantar plate, often with injury of the adjacent interosseous tendon. Plantar plate tears are less common. MR arthrography of the metatarsophalangeal joint delineates capsular tears and associated abnormalities.
The clinical measurement of acoustic impedance at the eardrum is described. Significant modifications of the traditional Schuster bridge by Zwislocki led to the development of an acoustic impedance bridge that permits a sufficiently reliable and rapid determination of absolute acoustic impedance. The results of clinical investigation with this instrument demonstrate the value of the acoustic method in the evaluation of the status of the middle ear mechanism. The presence of conductive hearing losses due to various middle ear conditions may be detected and differentiated by objective and quantitative impedance measurements.
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