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Otolith Dysfunction can Affect Head Stability during Gait

ملخص البحث
We study in detail the influence of Otolith organ dysfunction on head stability during locomotion. Participants were 20 patients (mean age, 54.0±11.6 years; mean height, 160.9±8cm) with unilateral Acoustic Neuroma (AN), and 9 age- and height-matched controls (mean age, 60.1±8.5 years; mean height, 162.7±8.1cm). All participants underwent measurement of ocular Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential (oVEMP) and cervical VEMP (cVEMP). Subjects were asked to walk freely with eyes open and closed while head movements were analyzed using a 3-dimensional motion analysis system. With regard to VEMP test results, oVEMP only, cVEMP only and both were abnormal in 3, 5 and 9 patients, respectively. Three patients showed normal results for both VEMPs. Compared with controls, horizontal head movement was greater in patients with abnormal oVEMP during eyes open and closed conditions and in patients with abnormal results for both VEMP tests during the eyes closed condition, while head movement in the pitch plane during walking with eyes open and closed, and in the roll plane with eyes closed was greater in patients with abnormal cVEMP or abnormal both VEMP tests. We conclude that, head stability in the horizontal plane during locomotion is affected by utricular dysfunction, while stability in the pitch and roll planes is affected by saccular dysfunction.
مؤلف البحث
Aboshanif M, Itasaka Y, Omi E, Koizumi K and
Ishikawa K*
مجلة البحث
Austin Journal of Otolaryngology
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تصنيف البحث
1
عدد البحث
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موقع البحث
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سنة البحث
2016