Abstract
Whiplash patients often have many subjective complaints, such as headaches, concentration difficulties, fatigue, neck pain and vertigo. Objective assessment of these complaints is difficult and neurological and neuropsychological signs of damage are not obvious. Other complaints frequently expressed after whiplash injury are diminished speech intelligibility in noisy environments and decreased tolerance to ‘loud’ sounds. In the present study, the latter complaints were evaluated with behavioural auditory tests. A test battery for auditory processing disorders was administered to 22 chronic whiplash patients with normal peripheral hearing. The test battery consists of seven tests: a sentences-in-noise test, pattern recognition tests, words-in-noise test, dichotic digit test, filtered speech test, binaural fusion test and backward masking tests. The uncomfortable loudness level (UCL) was also assessed using speech material. In addition, a questionnaire on auditory handicap was administered. The results were...
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