Patients with Alzheimer s and poor vestibular function are much more likely to fall than those with normal balance. A new trial will explore whether improving this "sixth sense" will reduce this risk.
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readaptation, and it takes several hours for you to do that because your vestibular system has to recalibrate itself, so at least when i came out, i came out with a cowboy stance because i felt, you know, uneasy that i can fall over to one side because of the balance not being calibrated yet, and although they were only there for three days, if you re out there for two weeks or more, certainly when the station folks pull up a month at a time, you have to exercise because if not, since you are not walking anymore, your muscles can suffer atrophy. you have to exercise. for this particular case, i don t think it was long enough to weaken their muscles. i m sure not feeling 1 g for three days, they are going to feel its effects. it takes several hours for you to readapt to them. jon: clayton anderson, another former nasa astronaut and shuttle passenger, the body,
too, but i didn t feel good about moving around for another three to four hours. and it really took until the next day that i felt pretty solid, you know, walking around, walking around the planet again. so you ve got to take it easy. a lot of things are your spine, for example, your spine extends itself when you re in space. it s kept in the right place by gravity. you re actually a little bit taller in space than you are on the ground. and that s all settling back in. you lose all of that height when you get back. your vestibular system, you re learning how to coordinate motion with your vision. all of that s kicking back in. you want to take it slow for the first day or two. and you want to tell everybody about what you did, tell your family, tell your friends, you know, i called my mom right away and you do all of those things. and it s really joyous and meaningful things to be doing. we re just wanting to tell our viewers, as we see right now, i believe what we re seeing from