Conditions That Are Treated With Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation
Our skilled and experienced neuro-optometric team helps patients recover from a wide range of visual dysfunctions that are due to neurological insults or conditions. Here, you’ll find some examples of the conditions that we treat on a daily basis in our practice.
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- Myopia (Nearsightedness): Specialized lenses and vision therapy enhance visual performance, potentially reducing myopia progression for a more natural visual experience.
- Hyperopia (Farsightedness): Custom lens prescriptions and vision therapy can improve the natural feel of lenses, aiding in clearer, more comfortable vision.
- Presbyopia: Tailored lenses and vision exercises aim to provide a seamless visual experience while improving productivity, focus, fatigue, eyestrain and more. ,
- Anisometropia: Personalized vision solutions balance visual input from each eye, ensuring harmonious and comfortable vision.
Binocular Vision Disorders
- Convergence Insufficiency: Vision therapy strengthens eye coordination, easing strain for near tasks.
- Convergence Excess: Corrective exercises and supportive glasses help align eyes properly for close work, enhancing comfort.
- Binocular Dysfunction: Therapy focuses on improving eye teaming, crucial for depth perception and eliminating double vision.
- Vergence Dysfunction: Exercises train eyes for proper movement and alignment, improving focus and reducing visual stress.
- Vergence Infacility: Enhancing flexibility in eye movements for better focus transitions between distances.
Accommodative (Focusing) Disorders
- Accommodative Dysfunction: Tailored therapy improves the eyes’ focusing abilities, reducing strain.
- Accommodative Insufficiency: Strengthening exercises for the focusing muscles to enhance near vision.
- Accommodative Infacility: Techniques to improve the ease and speed of focusing transitions.
Neuro-Visual and Vestibular Disorders
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- Dizziness & Vertigo: Addressing visual stability to reduce vestibular-related dizziness. Have a sub-list of all potential vestibular disorders (eg: vestibular neuritis, meniere’s etc. This is because when there is a vestibular issue, the brain needs to become more reliant on vision to help with equilibrium, and will be more sensitive to any visual deficits.
- Vertical Heterophoria: Aligning the visual field to decrease disorientation and balance issues.
Hyperphoria/Hypophoria: Correcting vertical misalignments for improved visual comfort.
Developmental and Learning-Related Visual Disorders
Not all learning disabilities involve vision. However, problems with vision such as eye tracking and binocular function can contribute to many symptoms of various learning disabilities. If these vision problems are present, then treatment means that the overall symptoms will reduce.
- Dyslexia: Alleviating visual stress to support reading skills through vision therapy. Not all cases of dyslexia involve vision, but many people with dyslexia have concurrent eye tracking problems that make their dyslexia symptoms significantly worse. When these issues are treated, reading improves.
- ADHD: Enhancing focus and attention with visual care strategies. Not all cases of ADHD involve vision, but problems with how the eyes work together can contribute to 7 of the 9 symptoms of ADHD and when treated the overall ADHD symptoms are reduced.
- Dysgraphia: Improving eye-hand coordination for better writing accuracy.
- Developmental Coordination Disorder: Strengthening visual-motor skills for improved coordination.
Specific Visual Conditions
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- Amblyopia (Lazy Eye): Stimulating visual development in the weaker eye for improved acuity.
- Computer Vision Syndrome: Combating screen-related eye strain with ergonomic and therapeutic strategies.
- Strabismus: Realigning eyes to improve binocular vision and depth perception.
Neurological and Post-Trauma Visual Conditions
- Stroke & Traumatic Brain Injury: Restoring visual functions compromised by neurological incidents through rehabilitation. * Vision therapy is not usually able to restore a missing visual field such as a bilateral hemiopia. This is because the hemianopia is due to damage to the transmission line (nerve) rather than the processing (which can often be rehabilitated).
- Post-Concussion Syndrome: Addressing persistent visual disturbances and symptoms with targeted vision therapy.
Miscellaneous Visual Conditions
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- Headaches & Migraines: Managing visual triggers and treating underlying binocular vision dysfunction to alleviate headache frequency and intensity.
- Difficulty Driving at Night: Night driving issues are commonly caused by binocular vision dysfunction. We can enhance night vision through custom visual solutions.
- Dizziness: Many cases of dizziness have binocular vision dysfunction as a contributing factor. We can reduce visually-induced dizziness with stabilizing treatments. Please contact us to learn more about what we offer and to find out if neuro-optometric rehabilitation therapy can benefit you.
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How We Can Help
If you or a loved one is experiencing any symptoms of double vision, dizziness or feeling off-balance, contact us for a consultation. Even if you’ve been told that your symptoms are stress-related, seasonal, or will fade on their own, having a functional visual evaluation can help rule out vision as the root cause or contributing factor to your symptoms.
It’s also important to note that not every optometrist is trained in this specialized field. Only a neuro-optometrist should assess and treat a post-TBI patient with neuro-optometric rehabilitation therapy.
We have the expertise and latest technology to provide you with the top-level care you deserve.
How Long Does Treatment Take?
No two patients are alike — if you’ve seen one head injury, you’ve seen one head injury. Each person experiences a unique degree of dizziness, balance issues, or vision problems. Some patients may require just a few weeks of treatment, while others may need something more long-term. The good news is that the improvements achieved by neuro-optometric rehabilitation therapy are generally long-lasting.