Vestibular System
Organ located in the inner ear, essential for detecting head motion.
What is vestibular system? (Source: StatPearls)
This sense helps you know where your limbs are without looking.
Proprioception. (Source: ScienceDirect Topics)
This trick involved spinning someone and asking them to walk.
Spinning chair test
Percentage of adults over 40 who experience balance dysfunction.
Over 35% percent
The sense that allows us to feel our body’s position in space.
Proprioception
These structures in the vestibular system detect rotational movement.
What are the semicircular canals? (Source: StatPearls)
A common activity used to improve proprioception.
Yoga or Tai Chi. (Source: The Guardian)
In this test, you close your eyes, tilt your head back, and try to touch your nose.
Finger-to-nose test
This infection can affect balance by disturbing the inner ear.
Labyrinthitis.
The inner ear system that helps maintain posture and orientation.
Vestibular system
This nerve carries balance information from the inner ear to the brain.
What is the vestibular nerve? (Source: StatPearls)
True or False: Proprioception can be improved with training.
True. (Source: ScienceDirect Topics)
This body fluid continues moving after spinning, making you dizzy.
Endolymph fluid (Source: Massachusetts Eye and Ear)
Walking requires coordination between these three systems.
Vision, vestibular, proprioception (Source: The Guardian)
The brain receives balance information from these three sources.
Eyes, ears, body. (Source: StatPearls)
These two components of the vestibular system sense linear acceleration and gravity.
Utricle and saccule. (Source: StatPearls)
Proprioception uses receptors located in these body parts.
Muscles, tendons, etc. (Source: ScienceDirect Topics)
Closing your eyes during a balance trick removes this key sensory input.
Vision (Source: InformedHealth.org)
Practicing this discipline improves balance through proprioception.
Yoga or Tai Chi (Source: The Guardian)
A trick that disrupts all three balance systems.
Finger-to-nose head tilt
When this part of the vestibular system malfunctions, dizziness and balance issues may occur.
Semicircular canal systems. (Source: StatPearls)
Proprioception works together with this inner-ear system to keep us balanced.
Vestibular system. (Source: ScienceDirect Topics)
This is the reason the spinning chair trick works?
Delayed fluid movement in semicircular canals. (Source: Massachusetts Eye and Ear)
True or False: Your balance can improve as you age.
False
Main reason balance gets worse with age.
Sensory system degradation. (Source: Harvard Health)