Compensation for labyrinthine defects examined by use of a tilting room

Visual compensation for vestibular deficiency was demonstrated by stabilometry inside a laterally tilting room. Labyrinthless patients showed a predominance of vision over the somatosensory system for a rather long time: in contrast to the controls, the labyrinthless subjects experienced the tilting...

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Published inActa oto-laryngologica Vol. 95; no. 5-6; p. 576
Main Authors Bles, W, Vianney de Jong, J M, de Wit, G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.01.1983
Subjects
Humans
Labyrinth Diseases - physiopathology
Posture
Vision, Ocular - physiology
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Summary:Visual compensation for vestibular deficiency was demonstrated by stabilometry inside a laterally tilting room. Labyrinthless patients showed a predominance of vision over the somatosensory system for a rather long time: in contrast to the controls, the labyrinthless subjects experienced the tilting room often as stationary and the stationary stabilometer as tilting, which resulted in vertical postural instability.
ISSN:0001-6489
DOI:10.3109/00016488309139445