Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques, and Equipment

Weightlessness Countermeasures

Techniques and routines designed to prevent or reverse unwanted effects of weightlessness experienced during actual and simulated space flight, including physiologic changes related to removal of gravitational loading. Specific measures include creation of artificial gravity, exercise, low-level lower body negative pressure, and use of anti-deconditioning devices. (From Nicogossian, Space Physiology and Medicine, 2d ed, pp294-297)

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Techniques and routines designed to prevent or reverse unwanted effects of weightlessness experienced during actual and simulated space flight, including physiologic changes related to removal of gravitational loading. Specific measures include creation of artificial gravity, exercise, low-level lower body negative pressure, and use of anti-deconditioning devices. (From Nicogossian, Space Physiology and Medicine, 2d ed, pp294-297)

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  • Countermeasures, Weightlessness
  • Countermeasure, Weightlessness
  • Weightlessness Countermeasure

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  • Space Flight (1966-1994)

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  1. E05.974

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Weightlessness Countermeasures. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018544. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018544
  2. Weightlessness Countermeasures. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72276646