Finding an effective treatment for the motion sickness-like symptoms that occur in space has become a high priority for NASA. This paper reviews the back-round research and procedures of an experiment designed to prevent space motion sickness in shuttle crewmembers. The preventive method used, Autogenic - Feedback Training (AFT) involves training subjects to control voluntarily several of their own physiological responses to environmental stressors. AFT has been used reliably to increase tolerance to motion sickness during around based tests in over 300 men and women under a variety of conditions that induce motion sickness, and preliminary evidence from space suggests that AFT may be an effective treatment for space motion sickness as well. Other applications of AFT described include; (1) a potential treatment for post flight orthostatic intolerance, a serious biomedical problem resulting from long duration exposure to micro-g and (2) improving pilot performance during emergency flying conditions.


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    Title :

    Autogenic Feedback Training Applications for Man in Space


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    41st Annual Meeting of Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting ; 1994 ; Orlando, FL, United States


    Publication date :

    1994-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English