Nonlinear Variability of Body Sway in Patients with Phobic Postural Vertigo
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Nonlinear Variability of Body Sway in Patients with Phobic Postural Vertigo
BACKGROUND Subjective postural imbalance is a key symptom in the somatoform phobic postural vertigo (PPV). It has been assumed that more attentional control of body posture and / or co-contraction of leg muscles during standing is used to minimize the physiological body sway in PPV. Here we analyze nonlinear variability of body sway in patients with PPV in order to disclose changes in postural ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Neurology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1664-2295
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00115