Vision Therapy & Righteye

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Vision Therapy

Q & A

What is Vision Therapy?

Vision therapy is a sequence of neurosensory and neuromuscular activities prescribed by the doctor to develop, rehabilitate, and enhance visual skills and processing. The length of the therapy program varies depending on the severity of the diagnosed conditions. Activities paralleling in-office techniques are typically taught to the patient to be practiced at home, reinforcing the developing visual skills.

Who Can Benefit from Vision Therapy?

Vision therapy is often times the best treatment option for patients who experience deficits with eye tracking, eye teaming, eye focusing and visual processing. By addressing the underlying vision conditions, patients often experience significant improvements in visual tasks, such as reading, working on the computer for extended periods of time, scanning of the visual environment (while driving or playing sports for example) and performing under timed conditions. Vision therapy can help people at many stages of life, helping children and adults.

Symptoms one may feel:

Discomfort (visual/eye strain, headaches, etc.) during visual tasks, such as reading or computer work
Blurred or fluctuating vision while performing near tasks (reading, computer, gaming, etc.) or when transitioning focus between distance and near (such as when taking notes in class)
Double vision, even if experienced occasionally
Tracking difficulties that may impair reading fluency (skipping words, re-reading lines, loss of place, etc.)
Impaired depth perception that causes poor eye-hand coordination and makes a person appear ‘clumsy’
Difficulties processing visual information, making it difficult to keep up with the pace of life, work, or school
Children struggling with reading or academic performance

Which Conditions are Treated with Vision Therapy?

Vision therapy may be used in isolation or in conjunction with other treatments to successfully remediation many vision conditions. These conditions include:

RightEye

Q&A: What is RightEye?

We are proud to offer a more comprehensive vision exam using advanced, state-of-the-art eye-tracking technology. The RightEye system enables our doctors to pinpoint functional vision and brain health issues, identify the root cause of reading problems, and improve athletic performance. In just 5 minutes, this proven, patented technology measures visual skills in ways that a standard eye exam cannot — enabling us to diagnose and treat underlying vision issues that affect our patients’ quality of life.

Functional Vision Testing

Your two eyes and brain must all work together to navigate the world. It’s this connection that makes up your functional vision. A standard eye exam, however, only checks your eyes’ physical health and ability to focus on stationary objects — it doesn’t measure critical dynamic vision skills such as eye movement and coordination. Signs that you may have a functional vision problem include:

Difficulty concentrating
Rereading or skipping lines of print
Short attention span
Poor reading comprehension
Poor coordination or balance
Slow completion of work
Previous brain trauma (concussions, strokes)
Loss of interest in reading
Frequent headaches

RightEye Functional Vision EyeQ is a 5-minute, non-invasive test performed at our offices that could diagnose a functional vision issue and set you on a path to improvement.

Call us to schedule your Functional Vision EyeQ test today.

Reading Assessments

One in four children has a vision problem that affects learning — a vision problem that is often misinterpreted as disinterest, sleepiness, dyslexia or ADHD. Eyesight (the ability to receive input through the eye) is not the same as vision (the ability to understand what that input is). Recognizing this distinction has monumental implications. Even a child with 20/20 eyesight can have a vision issue at the core of their learning problem.

To complicate matters, vision-related learning problems share the same symptoms as countless learning disability diagnoses, including:

Difficulty concentrating
Rereading or skipping lines of print
Letter reversals
Difficulty recognizing words
Short attention span
Poor reading comprehension
Poor handwriting
Slow completion of work
Loss of interest in reading

But thanks to RightEye’s Reading Assessment test, our doctors are able to expose vision and brain health in ways not possible from standard eye tests, gifting you with the opportunity to change your child’s life forever. Call us to schedule your child’s reading vision assessment today.

At Home Vision Exercises & Therapy

If you’ve been diagnosed with a functional or sports vision issue, our doctors can set you up with at-home exercises you can do online. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.

Based on your RightEye EyeQ test results, we’ll assign a series of exercises you complete at home under our supervision. EyeQ Trainer is a non-invasive, computer-based treatment proven to help improve your functional vision. It rehabilitates all six movement systems of the eye and promotes positive neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to make important neural connections.

Key benefits of the solution include:
Simple, low-intensity exercises
Done at home, on your own schedule
Uses your own computer
Takes just 5 minutes, twice a day
Trains all 12 eye muscles
Noticeable improvement, often within a few weeks

The result — improved functional vision and smoother, more accurate eye movements — can lead to better focus and concentration, improved balance and hand-eye coordination, and enhanced performance in everything from reading to driving to sports. EyeQ Trainer is personalized to your specific needs, so that we can focus on those areas that affect you most.

Call us today to learn more about EyeQ Trainer.

Neuro-optometric Vision Rehabilitation

Q & A

What is Neuro-Optometric Vision Rehabilitation?

Neuro-Optometric Vision Rehabilitation restores visual skills and abilities that are impaired as the result of an acquired brain injury. Planned treatment programs consists of a progression of therapy activities using specialized equipment to rehabilitate the neuro-visual system, removing visual barriers to clear, comfortable, single vision. It addresses the underlying vision conditions that can cause blurred vision, double vision, headaches, eyestrain, visual fatigue, tracking difficulties, balance dysfunction, and challenges with processing. Rehabilitating the visual system provides stable improvements and actual recovery, unlike efforts to teach the person how to compensate for the problem.

Who would benefit from Neuro-Optometric Vision Rehabilitation?

Post-concussion/Traumatic brain injury
- The visual system is often impacted as the result of a concussion or TBI. Visual changes can be quite obvious (blur, double vision) or subtle (headaches, discomfort, fatigue).
Post-stroke
- A cerebrovascular accident (stroke) often affects vision and visual processing. A stroke can result in blurred vision, double vision and visual field loss (restricted side vision). Of equal importance, a stroke can also impact visual function – resulting in poor depth perception or spatial awareness, reading or tracking difficulties, headaches and eyestrain, and balance difficulties.
Individuals in supportive therapies (OT, PT, Speech/language Therapy)
- Patients with an acquired brain injury often have a large team of professionals collaborating in their care. Many aspects of rehabilitation rely on a solid visual foundation. Visual-motor tasks (during occupational therapy), visual-vestibular tasks (during physical therapy) and visual-auditory tasks (during speech/language therapy) all require a competent visual system in order to maximize success.