As a teacher, how do I know the impact of a Vision Related Difficulty on learning? When providing talks or informational seminars at schools or learning institutions, it is one thing to discuss the effects of an eye tracking or teaming disorder on a child’s learning....
“Your biggest muscle as a goalie is your eyes,” Holtby told InGoal magazine. “I do a lot of visual training in my pre-game routine to warm up my eyes and keep them sharp. If you’re not seeing it, nothing else matters. Your eyes are the...
When you’re pushing out one final set at the gym or coming up on that last kilometre of a distance run, it’s easy to forget that the most active muscles in your body are not actually the ones that are aching. It’s not even the...
In nearly any profession there exists a number of differing designations that result in an interesting accumulation of letters at the end of a person’s name...
Post- Brain Injury Vision Therapy Following acquired brain injury or in cases of post-concussion syndrome, it is common for many patients to present with certain visual symptoms. These symptoms include, but are not limited to: dizziness, nausea, headaches, double vision, light sensitivity and difficulty sustaining attention...
In my experience, use of the term “visual hygiene” in the exam room tends to be met with a certain degree of confusion. Invoking images of a thorough scrub and rinse for the eyeballs, it probably wasn’t the best way for us as Optometrists to...
As optometrists, we often encounter patients who have formed the somewhat entrenched opinion that glasses will make their eyes or the eyes of their children weaker. These conversations typically feel more emotional than the majority of dialogues that we have in the exam room and...
Many of our referral sources have become accustomed to talking to their clients about the possibility of using “prism glasses” to assist with their recovery from a variety of visual concerns. Referral is often pre-empted with a discussion about these therapeutic glasses and our positive...
A day here at the office rarely goes by without a parent asking some very important questions about technology use and the visual system of their child. Our societal dependence on these devices is an extremely new phenomenon and it shows prudent judgement on the...
With many professionals now becoming aware of and learning more about functional visual deficits, I think it’s important to take time to discuss and outline one of the most common eye-teaming deficits that we see here at the office. As this particular condition can have...