Can imagined whole-body rotations improve vestibular compensation?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 816-819

  Lopez, Christophe ^a   Vibert, Dominique ^a   Mast, Fred W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BODY MOVEMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR COMPENSATION; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR LABYRINTH; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79955735095     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.02.026     Document Type: Article

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