The ballet dancer's balance

The practice of many years has created structural changes in the brains of ballet dancers, helping them to keep balance while dancing without dizziness.

Brain scans of professional ballet dancers show differences in their two parts of the brain compared to others. One party carries out signals from balanced bodies in the ear, the other side is responsible for perceiving dizziness. As a result, ballerina performers can perform many rotations, which can be very little or no dizziness.

"They seem to be able to practice for themselves the ability to not be dizzy, so we wonder if we can use the same principles of training to help patients" , Barry Seemungal from the Royal College of Medicine (ICL) Faculty of Medicine, said in a research paper in Cerebral Cortex magazine.

Ballet dancers can keep balance while dancing without dizziness.(Photo: AFP)

Seemungal and his team sent 29 ballet dancers around a swivel chair in a dark room, then did the same with 20 female rowers of the same age and health condition.

They were asked to rotate a lever placed on a small wheel attached to the seat in rhythm. These people must make the request when they have the feeling of rotation they just experienced after the chair stopped. For the dancers, the ability to feel the state of rotation lasts a lot shorter than the rest.

When looking at the brains of the dancers with MRI magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that the cerebellum part specialized in receiving signals from smaller, balanced organs.

This is useful for ballet dancers because it can help them keep balance and not feel dizzy.After years of practice, the brain will adapt to prevent imbalance and dizziness, allowing them to continue to perform performances despite having to turn a lot.

For chronic dizzy patients, choosing a similar brain region or controlling the area may lead to the possibility of finding treatments.

In the life cycle of a person, an average of 4 people in a person with chronic vertigo.