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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Buchanan, John J.a; * | Horak, Fay B.b
Affiliations: [a] Texas A&M University, Department of Health and Kinesiology, College Station, TX, USA | [b] Neurological Sciences Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR, USA
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Dr. John J. Buchanan, Texas A&M University, Department of Health and Kinesiology, College Station, TX 77843-4243, USA. Tel.: +1 979 862 3229; Fax: +1 979 847 8987; E-mail: jbuchanan@hlkn.tamu.edu
Abstract: Twelve subjects, 6 bilateral vestibular-loss (3 well compensated and 3 poorly compensated) and 6 controls, attempted to maintain balance during anterior-posterior sinusoidal surface translation at 6 different frequencies. For frequencies ≤ 0.25 Hz well compensated and control subjects rode the platform by fixing the head and upper-trunk with respect to the support surface, and for frequencies ≥ 0.75 Hz, these subjects fixed their head/upper-trunk in space. Poorly compensated vestibular subjects showed large head and center of mass variability and were unable to balance at frequencies requiring a head fixed in space pattern. All vestibular subjects were less stable with vision than the controls. Without vision, vestibular subjects experienced more falls than the controls at all frequencies, with falls observed in 61% trials and 16% information is important in stabilizing head and upper-trunk motion in space. Visual and somatosensory information can compensate, in part, for vestibular-loss. The results are discussed in light of models that characterize postural control in a vestibular/visual top-down and somatosensory bottom-up manner.
DOI: 10.3233/VES-2002-11604
Journal: Journal of Vestibular Research, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 371-389, 2002
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