Motion Sickness: Maladjustment More Than Sickness
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https://doi.org/10.18667/cienciaypoderaereo.129Keywords:
Flight, Motion Sickness, Vestibular RehabilitationAbstract
Motion sickness is a condition characterized by a group of symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and cold sweating that occurs when a person is exposed to an unfamiliar, real or apparent, motion stimulus. It is a generic term, can be applied to the symptoms generated by movement in sea, air, car, swimming, flight stimulator, and the space. The beginning of the stimulus generated by the movement creates signals such as visual, of skin, joints, muscles, vestibular system’s receptors and gravity receptors; originating a conflict between information, causing the alteration. The treatment is based in symptoms identification, prevention of triggering and underlying factors, and movement adaptability. Motion sickness is in fact a conflict of feelings where the human body is not capable of defining and identifying the information sensed, unless it is trained to achieve a decrease in sensitivity and habituation to movement. Motion sickness more than pathology is maladjustment of the organism to the movement during flight that generates feelings which cannot be interpreted but the person can be trained to achieve control, and in such a way continue with a normal life.
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