{"id":210572,"date":"2025-04-04T14:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sound-therapy-effectively-reduces-motion-sickness-by-stimulating-inner-ear"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:08:02","slug":"sound-therapy-effectively-reduces-motion-sickness-by-stimulating-inner-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sound-therapy-effectively-reduces-motion-sickness-by-stimulating-inner-ear","title":{"rendered":"Sound therapy effectively reduces motion sickness by stimulating inner ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sound-therapy-effectively-reduces-motion-sickness-by-stimulating-inner-ear2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research group led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has discovered that using \u201ca unique sound stimulation technology\u201d\u2014a device that stimulates the inner ear with a specific wavelength of sound\u2014reduces motion sickness. Even a single minute of stimulation reduced the staggering and discomfort felt by people that read in a moving vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The results, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstage.jst.go.jp\/article\/ehpm\/30\/0\/30_24-00247\/_article\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine<\/i>, suggest a simple and effective way to treat this common disorder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study demonstrated that short-term <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/stimulation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stimulation<\/a> using a unique sound called \u2018sound spice\u2019 alleviates symptoms of motion sickness, such as nausea and dizziness,\u201d Kagawa said. \u201cThe effective sound level falls within the range of everyday environmental noise exposure, suggesting that the sound technology is both effective and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research group led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has discovered that using \u201ca unique sound stimulation technology\u201d\u2014a device that stimulates the inner ear with a specific wavelength of sound\u2014reduces motion sickness. Even a single minute of stimulation reduced the staggering and discomfort felt by people that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}