Balance disturbances in individuals with vibroacoustic disease

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3 II SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Martinho Pimenta, A J F ^a,d,f   Castelo Branco, M S N A ^b,d   Castelo Branco, N A A ^c,d,e  

^a Hosp de S Antonio dos Capuchos   (Portugal)

^b Espirito Santo Banking Group   (Portugal)

^c Occup Medicine Research Center   (Portugal)

^d Center for Human Performance   (Portugal)

^e Edificio Cinema ^*  (Portugal)

^f Neurophysiol Dept Ctr Hum Perf   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Auditory evoked potentials; Balance disorders; Low frequency; MRI; Noise; Occupational; Vertigo; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NOISE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VIBRATION DISEASE;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSATION DISORDERS; VERTIGO; VIBRATION;

EID: 0344718435     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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