title: [Kinetic tests representativity in vestibular function].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The most frecuently tests used to study the vestibular system, with videonystagmographic register, are the caloric and rotatory ones.
  
  
  METHODS
  We have carried out a comparative study of the kinetic tests through a sample of 41 patients without vestibular pathology, stratified by age and gender. The performed rotational tests have been: Constant/cycles, postrrotatory test, increasing, decreasing and constant test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have not observed age or gender influence on the results. We give the numeric results of these tests.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The obtained data allow to conclude that the information given by the increasing and decreasing pendulous test is similar, phenomenon that doesn't happen in the rest of the practiced tests. We also study the habituation phenomenon to a know stimuli. We point out the importance of each laboratory to have their tests done previously in a normal control group in order to compare the results when performing them in pathological patients.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia. belinchon@comv.es
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Belinchón de Diego
authors.forename: A Garcia
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Piñero
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pérez López
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fenollosa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pérez Garrigues
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Morera Pérez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014724:Vestibular Function Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*