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Asked by ESMITHY to Christie, Dan, David, Dawn, Sian on 14 Jun 2016.
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Dan Lewis answered on 14 Jun 2016:
If dizziness is associated with your balance, you may be talking about controlling the vestibular system which is part of your sensory system. It’s main function is monitoring your spatial orientation and sense of balance. The system works with the auditory system found in your ears and relays the information to the cerebellum (controls muscle movement of head, posture and eyes – key in the blurriness associated with dizziness) and ventral pathways (vertical orientation- feeling of not standing up properly).
It doesn’t seem like you can train your brain to stop dizziness as there are so many things going on in your brain at once that would be affecting dizziness but if you think astronauts undertake high-g training where they are subjected to high g-forces, that might be one of training your body to cope.
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Dawn Lau answered on 14 Jun 2016:
Dizziness can be caused by the fluid in your inner ear, which normally helps to maintain your sense of balance. However, if you start spinning and suddenly stop, the fluid continues to whirl around, causing you to feel unbalanced and dizzy. What’s interesting is that ballet dancers may have learned to adapt to stop them from feeling dizzy. In brain scans, ballet dancers showed that they have smaller areas of the brain that are responsible for the feeling of dizziness as compared to non-dancers. This suggests that after years of training, it is possible to not feel as dizzy when you do particular movements like a ballet dancer. However, it seems as though it would take a lot of training! But this type of research is very interesting for people who constantly feel dizzy.
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Christie Waddington answered on 17 Jun 2016:
There was an article I read a while ago that said ballerinas who had undergone years and years of training could train themselves to not feel dizzy when doing their pirouettes. There were some researchers who did some investigations into this, and apparently there is a part of the cerebellum (bit of the brain that controls movement) that is smaller in these highly-trained dancers compared to normal people.
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David Robertson answered on 18 Jun 2016:
I think there are some jobs where you have to train yourself so that you can still work even if you are a bit dizzy for example; ballet dancer, stunt pilot, astronaut. I’m not sure if these people feel dizzy or not, but their training helps them cope with it.
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Sian Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2016:
I didn’t know the answer to this – but when I was younger did do a lot of ballet and did not usually succumb to dizziness. All of the reasons seam feasible – and are borne out in practice. Also, some people have medical conditions which make them more likely to be dizzy in certain circumstances.
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