风湿关节炎费用:瘾君子就算戒了酒，运动平衡也毁了

通常你大老远就能注意到醉鬼，这些家伙从酒吧里出来跌跌撞撞地往家走，就差翻倒在路边的树丛中摔个狗啃屎。

Scientists claim that recovering alcoholics still struggle to keep their balance for years after giving up the bottle.A U.S. study revealed that heavy drinking has a major impact on coordination for years.

科学家研究称，酒瘾者戒酒数年后仍然无法恢复其损伤的运动平衡。美国一个研究小组研究发现，重度酗酒将会对人体的平衡协调系统造成严重损害至少数年时间。

Researchers found that alcoholics who had only recently given up struggled to walk straight along a line or stand heel to toe with their arms folded for a minute with their eyes closed in tests, LiveScience.com reported.Although it is little surprise that alcoholics struggled with the tasks, those who had given up the bottle also struggled with them.

科研人员发现新近戒酒的酒徒们在走直线及曲臂颠脚站立的测试中表现很糟，实验科学网站如是报导。让人感到有些吃惊的是：酒瘾者在这个测试中表现糟糕，可是，已经成功戒酒的前酒瘾者在这个测试中表现也不咋地。

The team at the Neurobehavioural Research unit in Honolulu, Hawaii, analysed the balance and gait of 200 volunteers.The 70 volunteers who had only recently given up drinking in the previous 15 weeks performed the worst. However, 52 who had never been alcoholics carried out the tasks a lot better than those who were had given up drinking years ago.

夏威夷檀香山运动神经研究所的一个科研小组分析了200位志愿者的步伐平衡特征。其中70个人他们在测试前15周内才戒酒的，这一组表现最差。从未喝酒上瘾的52人他们在测试中的表现比起那些戒酒有几年的人来说好很多。

Dr George Fein, who led the investigation, said that recovering addicts never got their balance back totally.‘There's an 80 to 90 percent recovery, but there's still some residual effects,’ the senior scientist told LiveScience.com.

乔治芬尼博士是这个项目的头儿，他说成功戒除酒瘾并不能完全恢复人们的运动平衡。这位资深科学家对实验科学网站的记者说道：“运动平衡能够恢复89-90%，但仍有一些永久性损伤存在。”

The findings have been published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

这一研究结果已经发表在《临床及实验——酒精成瘾》杂志上。

Previously, it was thought that balance problems disappeared soon after heavy drinkers gave up the bottle.Dr Kevin Hill, a psychiatrist who works at an alcohol treatment centre in Belmont, Massachusetts, said that alcoholism is a chronic illness.‘A lot of people don't think about addictions as chronic medical illnesses,’ he told LiveScience.‘Just as a person with diabetes might ultimately develop loss of sensation and feeling in extremities, people with alcohol addiction might permanently lose balance and coordination.’

从前人们普遍认为运动平衡问题会在戒酒后不久很快消失。然而，马塞诸萨州贝尔蒙特戒酒中心的精神医学家凯文希尔博士认为，酒精中毒是一种慢性病。他对实验科学网站的记者说：“很多人并未将成瘾症当成一种慢性病来思考。”“实际上，就好像糖尿病患者最终将去失去其末端神经的感观功能一样，酒精成瘾者将会永久地失去其运动平衡协调功能。”

The study found that as the years went by problems with balance begun to diminish. However, there was a lasting effect.

研究还发现，随着时间流逝抱怨运动平衡损伤的病例在逐渐减少，但这并不是说症状消失了，而是这变成了一项永久性损伤伴随酒精成瘾者一生。