Relationship between postural control and motion sickness in healthy subjects
Abstract
This study examined the relationship between reported susceptibility to motion sickness, anxious personality and postural control. Postural stability was assessed in 34 healthy subjects standing with eyes open, eyes closed and viewing a disorienting virtual reality display. These measures were repeated with vibration of the calf muscles to distort the somatosensory feedback from the legs. Susceptibility to motion sickness and anxious personality were evaluated by questionnaire. Greater postural instability was correlated with susceptibility to motion sickness. Motion sickness susceptibility correlated most strongly with increased sway when the visual and somatosensory feedback was absent or distorted. Anxiety was correlated with reported susceptibility to motion sickness but not with postural stability. These findings suggest that deficient perceptual-motor responses to disorienting conditions may contribute to motion sickness susceptibility.
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Studies of the relationship between postural instability and onset of motion sickness show little support for the ecological theory of motion sickness.
“Studies of the relationship between postural instability and onset of motion sickness also show little support for the ecological theory of motion sickness (Owen et al. 1998; Warwick-Evans and Beaumont 1991; Warwick-Evans et al. 1998).”
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- Authors
- Owen, N., Leadbetter, A. G., & Yardley, L.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- University of East London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Yardley, Lucy
- Venue
- Brain Research Bulletin
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-11
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 471-474
- ISSN
- 0361-9230 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2072942229
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 17
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- FWCI
- 0.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Brain Research Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Keywords
- motion sickness susceptibility, postural control, postural stability, somatosensory feedback, visual-vestibular interaction, postural sway
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anxiety, Disease Susceptibility, Feedback, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Motion Sickness, Posture, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reference Values
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