Virtual Reality, an effective remedy for motion sickness? - 27/01/23
My friends, my family, they all know it: they have to let me sit in the front seat in the car and in the train, praying that I sit the right way. Let's not even talk about the bus and the boat, which I have nightmares about nights in advance... Like me, 40% of French people (mostly women), would be subject to kinetosis. In other words: motion sickness. It seems like nothing but it is disabling, stressful. Having to look for avoidance strategies, or even not traveling at all. Until one day a friend told me about a mysterious treatment: neuro-sensory rehabilitation.
Nausea, hot flashes and even vomiting
"Motion sickness is a discrepancy between the information perceived by sight and the vestibular system, which is called the inner ear, " summarizes this physiotherapist from Rennes, who has been trained in this rehabilitation. Concretely, there is a conflict between what the eyes see and what the inner ear perceives. This causes nausea, hot flashes and even vomiting.
Normally, this motion sickness, to which many children are prone, disappears during adolescence. But for some adults, "this progressive management of the internal conflict did not take place". Good news, it can be treated... " And for several years, virtual reality allows to be exposed to this conflict, while leaving time to the central nervous system to adapt."
The full article is available on ouest-france.fr