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Balance Function Disorders
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Researchers at the Balance Function Laboratory and Clinic at the Minneapolis (MN) Neuroscience Institute on the Abbot Northwestern Hospital Campus are using a rotational chair (technically a sinusoidal harmonic acceleration system") originally developed by NASA to investigate vestibular (inner ear) function in weightlessness to diagnose and treat patients with balance function disorders. Manufactured by ICS Medical Corporation Schaumberg IL the chair system turns a patient and monitors his or her responses to rotational stimulation."