Balance test.NeuroCom [R] has added an active Head-Shake protocol to the Sensory Organization Test (SOT), significantly improving both the sensitivity and specificity of the SOT. The new HS-SOT protocol enhances treatment planning In radiotherapy, Treatment Planning is the process in which a team consisting of radiation oncologists, medical radiation physicists and dosimetrists plan the appropriate external beam radiotherapy treatment technique for a patient with cancer. Typically, medical imaging (i.e. and outcome documentation by quantifying impairments related to the interaction between the sensory inputs (vision, vestibular ves·tib·u·lar adj. Of, relating to, or serving as a vestibule, especially of the ear. Vestibular Pertaining to the vestibule; regarding the vestibular nerve of the ear which is linked to the ability to hear sounds. , and proprioception proprioception Perception of stimuli relating to position, posture, equilibrium, or internal condition. Receptors (nerve endings) in skeletal muscles and on tendons provide constant information on limb position and muscle action for coordination of limb movements. ) and the motion of the head during the maintenance of balance. Coordinating the eyes, head, and postural balance postural balance, n optimally distributed body mass relative to the force of gravity. is critical to safe, effective performance of many daily life mobility activities. Impairments in the interactions between the balance and eye-head systems are commonly reported in patients with balance system deficits. Clinicians and researchers at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory in Pensacola, Florida, originally developed the HS-SOT to detect balance system deficits in high-performance aircraft pilots and deep-sea divers. In the computerized version of the HS-SOT, patients with normal SOT results perform additional eyes-closed trials while performing rhythmic movements of the head. The operator views a continuous head movement display to ensure that the patient maintains the specified minimum velocities. To isolate the effects of proprioceptive Proprioceptive Pertaining to proprioception, or the awareness of posture, movement, and changes in equilibrium and the knowledge of position, weight, and resistance of objects as they relate to the body. and vestibular inputs on head balance interactions, HS-SOT trials are repeated under fixed and sway-referenced support surface conditions. To isolate problems to specific planes of head motion, separate trials can be performed with yaw yaw, in aviation: see airplane; airfoil. See pitch-yaw-roll. , pitch, or roll head motions. |
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