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Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Effects of muscle contraction on cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in normal subjects.
Clinical Neurophysiology : Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2015 November
OBJECTIVE: Cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) are vestibular-dependent muscle reflexes recorded from the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscles in humans. cVEMP amplitude is modulated by stimulus intensity and SCM muscle contraction strength, but the effect of muscle contraction is less well-documented. The effects of intensity and contraction were therefore compared in 25 normal subjects over a wide range of contractions.
METHODS: cVEMPs were recorded at different contraction levels while holding stimulus intensity constant and at different intensities while holding SCM contraction constant.
RESULTS: The effect of muscle contraction on cVEMP amplitude was linear for most of the range of muscle contractions in the majority of subjects (mean R(2)=0.93), although there were some nonlinearities when the contraction was either very weak or very strong. Very weak contractions were associated with absent responses, incomplete morphology and prolonged p13 latencies. Normalization of amplitudes, by dividing the p13-n23 amplitude by the muscle contraction estimate, reduced the effect of muscle contraction, but tended to underestimate the amplitude with weak contractions.
CONCLUSIONS: Minimum contraction levels are required for accurate interpretation of cVEMPs.
SIGNIFICANCE: These data highlight the importance of measuring SCM contraction strength when recording cVEMPs.
METHODS: cVEMPs were recorded at different contraction levels while holding stimulus intensity constant and at different intensities while holding SCM contraction constant.
RESULTS: The effect of muscle contraction on cVEMP amplitude was linear for most of the range of muscle contractions in the majority of subjects (mean R(2)=0.93), although there were some nonlinearities when the contraction was either very weak or very strong. Very weak contractions were associated with absent responses, incomplete morphology and prolonged p13 latencies. Normalization of amplitudes, by dividing the p13-n23 amplitude by the muscle contraction estimate, reduced the effect of muscle contraction, but tended to underestimate the amplitude with weak contractions.
CONCLUSIONS: Minimum contraction levels are required for accurate interpretation of cVEMPs.
SIGNIFICANCE: These data highlight the importance of measuring SCM contraction strength when recording cVEMPs.
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