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Science articlesEffect of nonexercise vestibular training on changes in sensitivity of certain areas of peripheral part of vestibular analyzer of persons prone to motion sickness
V. V. Dvoryanchikov (1), A. E. Golovanov (2), F. A. Syroezhkin (2)
(1) Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Ear, Throat, Nose and Speech, Saint Petersburg, 190013, Russia
(2) Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg, 194044, Russia
UDK: УДК 616.281:616.28-008.5-073.176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2022-2-24-28
ABSTRACT
Increased vestibulo-vegetative sensitivity can occur when the vestibular analyzer is damaged (in particular, its peripheral part), it can also be congenital and manifest itself in the form of a condition such as motion sickness. In the first case, a person actively goes to the doctor with certain complaints, some pathology is identified, and appropriate treatment is prescribed. In the second case, problems arise only under certain external conditions – increased vestibular load, usually with the presence of Coriolis accelerations. When examining such persons, it is often only about the asymmetry of excitability between the right and left labyrinths. However, the issues of intralabyrinthine interaction both in pathology and in vestibular rehabilitation measures may be of interest to researchers as a direction for improving diagnostic methods and compensating for the pathology of the peripheral part of the vestibular analyzer. It was suggested that during regular vestibular loads in the form of vestibular training there is a change in the relationship between intralabyrinthine and interlabyrinthine excitability. Objective of the study. To determine whether the relationship between intralabyrinthine and interlabyrinthine excitability changes under the influence of nonexercise vestibular training in persons prone to motion sickness. Materials and methods. Preselected individuals with increased vestibulo-vegetative sensitivity underwent a course of vestibular training on a stabilometric platform according to the Rectis with optical stimulation program. Also, before and after the training course, each of them underwent video oculometry according to the algorithm we developed, when the rotation is performed alternately in the plane of each of the six semicircular canals. The analysis of changes in the indicators of video oculometry, which arose as a result of training, was carried out. Results. A relative change in both interlabyrinthine and intralabyrinthine excitability was revealed.
Publication date:
18.04.2022
Keywords:
vestibular training, stabilometry, video oculometry, motion sickness. For citation:
Dvoryanchikov V. V., Golovanov A. E., Syroezhkin F. A. Effect of nonexercise vestibular training on changes in sensitivity of certain areas of peripheral part of vestibular analyzer of persons prone to motion sickness. Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2022;21(2):24-28. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2022-2-24-28