Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 213-217 , February 2010

Salient and placebo vibrotactile feedback are equally effective in reducing sway in bilateral vestibular loss patients

  • Maurice Janssen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
    • .Division of Balance Disorders, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Research Institute Brain & Behaviour, University Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Maastricht, P.O. Box 5800, Provisorium 3.T1.026, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 43 387 1040/4260/61 316 4428; fax: +31 43 387 4277.
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  • Robert Stokroos

      Affiliations

    • .Division of Balance Disorders, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Research Institute Brain & Behaviour, University Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Jos Aarts

      Affiliations

    • Instrument Development Engineering & Evaluation, University Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Rob van Lummel

      Affiliations

    • McRoberts Sensor Technology, The Hague, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Herman Kingma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
    • .Division of Balance Disorders, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Research Institute Brain & Behaviour, University Maastricht, The Netherlands

Received 24 July 2009 ,Revised 15 October 2009 ,Accepted 17 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.10.008

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 213-217 , February 2010

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