Mal de Debarquement and Posture: Reduced Reliance on Vestibular and Visual Cues

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 581-586

  Nachum, Zohar ^a   Shupak, Avi ^a,b   Letichevsky, Vadim ^c   Ben David, Jacob ^d   Tal, Dror ^a   Tamir, Ada ^e   Talmon, Yoav ^c   Gordon, Carlos R ^a   Luntz, Michal ^d  

^a ISRAEL NAVAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^b Lin Medical Center   (Israel)

^c WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^d BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mal de debarquement; Posturography; Seasickness; Spatial disorientation; Vestibular function tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATAXIA; BODY POSTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAL DE DEBARQUEMENT; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAILOR; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STABILOGRAPHY; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CUES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; POSTURE; SHIPS; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 1642387306     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200403000-00036     Document Type: Article

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