Eye Movement Therapy

Unfortunately, few people have heard of vision therapy. This is the best kept secret in eye care. The few people who know anything think that is the Bates Method. But Bates is obsolete. This method will focus only on the eye muscles. Today, we know, moreover, vision therapy works by retraining the way the brain processes visual imagery. Rather, biofeedback visual calisthenics that vision. Using methods of today, we get better results more durable than Bates did. vision therapy today helps treat many eye diseases vision disability. Here are some tips you may want to treat your eye problems.

Traumatic Brain Injury 1.

Some people who have suffered head injuries in automobile accidents or other largely recover, except that they experience blurred vision or double. They are often told they have to live with it, but vision therapy can often help to see better.

. Athletic Performance 2

Keep your eyes on the ball is in the standard advice of baseball, basketball, tennis, volleyball and other sports. The problem is that sometimes even the world-class athletes can not do well enough to remain competitive. With the help of vision therapy, they can. In one study, vision therapy has been conducted on a group of professional tennis players. The lights were flashed on them and the time it takes to respond. At first, it may take one tenth of a second. But after a while, they begin to respond to one hundredth of a second, ten times faster. The difference between one tenth and one hundredth of a second may not seem like much, but when you play professional tennis, that's the difference between seeing the ball from your opponent's racket and does not see it until what is already on the side of the court.

3. Balance

Good vision is essential for a good balance, because the vision, our dominant feeling, provides the brain with great information on body position. A group of 20 male and female students were tested on their balance and Eyerobics training, a training program that uses visual skills vision therapy exercises to improve depth perception, peripheral vision, reaction time and trial space. After training Eyerobics, the researchers retested the balance of the participant and found a significant improvement.

4. Regards crossed, lazy eye and binocular Disorder

In addition to causing aesthetic problems - strange eyes - these problems interfere with reading and close work and discussion can lead to blindness in the weaker eye. They are also surprisingly common. According to a report in the Journal of the American Optometric Association, about 5 percent of schoolchildren have strabismic eyes, and up to 8 per cent have some degree of amblyopia. Each year in the United States, the National Society to prevent blindness estimated 127,000 new diagnoses of amblyopia. Six months of treatment produces a substantial vision, the long-term improvement of these conditions in about 75 percent of cases.

5. Learning Disabilities

Many children diagnosed with learning disabilities or dyslexia does not really have. They often have vision problems related to learning and vision therapy can help - if they are diagnosed and treated by an optometrist behavior. Unfortunately, many are not. In one study, with three children, two aged eight and a ten, which had serious problems with reading. One had been diagnosed as dyslexic. After two months of vision therapy, reading skills of children has improved dramatically

6. Focusing Problems

Normal eyes hold objects under discussion and focus automatically when they pass from one object to another that is closer.