Motion Sickness
摘要
Motion sickness is a common human experience. While this is often depicted as a “disease” in medical literature, we hesitate to pathologize it in that fashion, since human beings did not evolve to travel in space shuttles and use immersive virtual reality video games. Nevertheless, since many people experience motion sickness during vehicular travel, it can still limit a person’s activities, whether or not one classifies it as a “disease.” The most common strategy for managing motion sickness is to avoid the trigger, and while this is effective, it is not always feasible. Other well-studied approaches include various medications. Less well-studied approaches include motion sickness wristbands, habituation/desensitization, and others.