Motion Sickness in Scoliotic Patients

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  • 脊柱側弯症と車酔い
  • セキチュウ ソクワンショウ ト クルマヨイ

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In scoliotic patients, there are no complaints related to vertigo regardless of whether the patients are at rest or are active. However, there is a tendency for them to complain of various autonomic syndromes relating to motion sickness when they are stimulated by passive movement such as vehicles, buses, cars etc. These syndromes are particularly aggravated when these patients are on a car or a bus, and gaze at rapidly moving objects around them.<br>There is often significant improvement in such syndromes when these patients are treated by various orthopedic technics, such as wearing a corset and surgery, and there is an amelioration of both the deteriorated optokinetic nystagmus and the scoliotic spine in the lumbar region.<br>Thus, the mechanism of motion sickness in scoliotic patients is not attributed to disturbances of the proprio-vestibular coordination, but rather to those related to proprio-optic coordination.

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