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Using Low Levels of Stochastic Vestibular Stimulation to Improve Balance Function.
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- Stochastic resonance stimulation improves balance in children with cerebral palsy: a case control study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2018Trial
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- Standardizing Stimulus Parameters for Noisy Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation.Journal of audiology & otology · 2026Review
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- The effect of age on ankle versus hip proprioceptive contribution in balance recovery: application of vibratory stimulation for altering proprioceptive performance.Biomedical engineering letters · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Soleus H-Reflex Following Standing GVS and Postural Control Responses on Firm and Foam Surfaces: An Exploratory Study.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Optimizing noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS) for postural control: methodological considerations when individualizing the signal for people with bilateral vestibulopathy.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- A review of parameter settings for galvanic vestibular stimulation in clinical applications.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Properties of standing balance control under noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Postural motion perception during vestibular stimulation depends on the motion perception threshold in persistent postural-perceptual dizziness.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Low-intensity vestibular noise stimulation improves postural symptoms in progressive supranuclear palsy.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Assessing the role of ankle and hip joint proprioceptive information in balance recovery using vibratory stimulation.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Optimal Design of Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation for Patients with Vestibulopathy and Cerebellar Disorders.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Effects of additive sensory noise on cognition.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Scoping out noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation: a review of the parameters used to improve postural control.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Random noise stimulation in the treatment of patients with neurological disorders.Neural regeneration research · 2022Review
- Analysis of Functional Arch Support Insoles on the Biomechanics and Performance in Right-Forward Lunging Step of Badminton Players.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Phase-dependent modulation of the vestibular-cerebellar networkFrontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Thresholds for vestibular and cutaneous perception and oculomotor response induced by galvanic vestibular stimulation.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Low-level stochastic vestibular stimulation (SVS) has been associated with improved postural responses in the medio-lateral (ML) direction, but its effect in improving balance function in both the ML and anterior-posterior (AP) directions has not been studied. In this series of studies, the efficacy of applying low amplitude SVS in 0-30 Hz range between the mastoids in the ML direction on improving cross-planar balance function was investigated. Forty-five (45) subjects stood on a compliant surface with their eyes closed and were instructed to maintain a stable upright stance. Measures of stability of the head, trunk, and whole body were quantified in ML, AP and combined APML directions. Results show that binaural bipolar SVS given in the ML direction significantly improved balance performance with the peak of optimal stimulus amplitude predominantly in the range of 100-500 μA for all the three directions, exhibiting stochastic resonance (SR) phenomenon. Objective perceptual and body motion thresholds as estimates of internal noise while subjects sat on a chair with their eyes closed and were given 1 Hz bipolar binaural sinusoidal electrical stimuli were also measured. In general, there was no significant difference between estimates of perceptual and body motion thresholds. The average optimal SVS amplitude that improved balance performance (peak SVS amplitude normalized to perceptual threshold) was estimated to be 46% in ML, 53% in AP, and 50% in APML directions. A miniature patch-type SVS device may be useful to improve balance function in people with disabilities due to aging, Parkinson's disease or in astronauts returning from long-duration space flight.
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