Professor of kinesiology Dr. Thomas A. Stoffregen and his work as the director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) was highlighted in a recent blog in The New York Times‘ Well section. The feature, “Rethinking Motion Sickness,” relays Stoffregen’s hypothesis that motion sickness is connected to posture and gait, not imbalances in the inner ear.
Author Peter Andrey Smith writes, “For decades now, Dr. Stoffregen, 56, director of the university’s Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory, has been amassing evidence in support of a surprising theory about the causes of motion sickness. The problem does not arise in the inner ear, he believes, but rather in a disturbance in the body’s system for maintaining posture. The idea, once largely ignored, is beginning to gain grudging recognition.”