OBJECTIVES To evaluate the relationship between Trendelenburg tilt and internal jugular vein (IJV) diameter, and to examine any cumulative effects of tilt on the IJV diameter. METHODS Using a tilt table, healthy volunteers were randomised to Trendelenburg tilts of 10 degrees, 15 degrees, 20 degrees, 25 degrees, and 30 degrees. Ultrasound was used to measure and record the lateral diameter of ...

Vertical phoria can be trained to vary with either head position or orbital eye position. The present experiments show that subjects can simultaneously adapt their eye-position-specific (nonconcomitant) vertical phorias in different directions at different head positions. Eye-position-dependent and head-position-dependent adaptive pathways, therefore, are not independent. Rather, the adaptation...

The presence of severe dynamic knee valgus in asymptomatic women may be a factor related to future complaints pain this joint. aim study is correlate the strength levels hip and trunk stabilizer muscles with angles, pelvic tilt young women. 22 no history lower limb or injury participated study. In first visit laboratory, volunteers performed anamnesis, kinematic evaluation angle, tilt. Afterwar...

BACKGROUND Low level connective tissue inflammation has been proposed to play a role in thyroid associated ophthalmopathy (TAO). The aim of this study was to investigate this postulate by a musculoskeletal approach together with biochemical parameters. METHODS 13 patients with TAO and 16 controls were examined. Erythrocyte levels of Zn, Cu, Ca2+, Mg, and Fe were determined. The musculoskeleta...

Otolith organs have been shown to activate the sympathetic nervous system in the prone position by head-down rotation (HDR) in humans. To date, otolithic stimulation by HDR has not been comprehensively studied in the upright posture. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether otolithic stimulation increases muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) in the upright posture. It was h...

Complete ganglion blockade alters dynamic cerebral autoregulation, suggesting links between systemic autonomic traffic and regulation of cerebral blood flow velocity. We tested the hypothesis that acute head-down tilt, a physiological maneuver that decreases systemic sympathetic activity, would similarly disrupt normal dynamic cerebral autoregulation. We studied 10 healthy young subjects (5 men...

PURPOSE To report a case of bilateral Brown's syndrome with unilateral spontaneous resolution causing hypertropia and significant head tilt. CASE REPORT A 3 ½-year-old girl presented with bilateral typical Brown's syndrome and orthophoria in the primary position; she presented with unilateral resolution of right Brown's syndrome 6 months later, causing right hypertropia and gradually deterior...

Sir,—In commenting on our paper [1], Kardos, Rudas and Simon described their own use of the analysis of short-term heart rate variability to assess the effect of varying posture on cardiac autonomic control. Essentially they have confirmed that head-up tilt causes sympathetic activation (as evidenced by an increase in the low frequency variability) in comparison with supine and head-down positi...

1. The effect of head-up tilt upon subcutaneous blood flow in the distal arm and leg was studied in 12 patients with complete traumatic spinal cord transection at the cervical level. 2. Blood flow was measured by the local 133Xe washout technique. 3. Leg lowering induced a 47% decrease in blood flow in the distal leg. During head-up tilt (45 degrees) blood flow in the leg decreased by 48%. In t...

Intraocular pressure (IOP) can be altered by changing body position. This report describes two experiments evaluating variations in IOP, as well as neural functioning of the retina and visual cortex (as measured by pattern-reversal electroretinogram and visual evoked potential), associated with whole-body, head-down tilt. The subjects, ten per experiment, were visually normal with IOP less than...