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Focusing on a reference point while spinning helps with disorientation.

TSgt. Erica Luke is using her finger as a visual reference point for the student, A1C James Jackson, Aerospace and Operational Physiology Technician, to focus on when being spun slowly in the Barany chair. She is showing A1C Jackson a spatial disorientation that he could encounter if he was flying a plane. This spatial disorientation is call nystagmus.

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