1. The Effects of Motion Sickness on Balance and Gait.
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Pai, Shreya Neetu Yogesh and Prabhu, Sukhada Sudhir
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COLLEGE students ,EXPERIMENTAL design ,NAUSEA ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,POSTURAL balance ,GAIT in humans ,DIZZINESS ,CROSS-sectional method ,PHYSICAL therapy ,VESTIBULAR apparatus diseases ,VOMITING ,MOTION sickness ,SALIVATION ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,HEADACHE ,YAWNING ,VERTIGO - Abstract
Background: The term "motion sickness" (also called "kinetosis") describes a set of symptoms that occur in association with motion of a person or his or her surroundings, triggering a stress reaction that results in autonomic symptoms. The onset is often insidious, with drowsiness/yawning, dizziness, reduced alertness, and symptoms progress through cold sweating, pallor, excessive salivation, and occasionally headache, to nausea and vomiting with incapacitation that can be severe. Motion sickness usually occurs due to a visuo-vestibular conflict. Part of it is psychological as well as the symptoms of motion sickness are triggered in some people by just reading about it. Method: A cross-sectional study was performed in college going students for six months using the MSSQ-short and the Mini BESTest to assess the susceptibility of motion sickness as well as balance and gait respectively. Conclusion: Balance and gait was found to be significantly affected in people with motion sickness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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