Visual
Efficiency Therapy
This type of therapy improves deficits which cause symptoms such as headaches, double vision, eye strain and loss of place when scanning. The major categories of treatment include accommodation (eye focusing), binocularity (eye teaming) and ocular-motor (eye tracking) skills.
Unlike horses, humans have two eyes located side-by-side in the front of their heads. Thanks to the close side-by-side positioning, each eye takes a view of the same area from a slightly different angle. The two eye views have plenty in common, but each eye picks up visual information the other doesn't. Have you ever compared the different views of your right and left eye? The Eye Hop Game lets you do just that.
The Eye Hop
This demonstrates the different angles of view of your two eyes. It's also a chance to check whether your eyes see equally well. Is one image blurrier than the other? Is there a size difference between the images? Does one image seem more comfortable or reliable than the other?
- Center your nose over the brown eye below with your head about 20 inches from the screen.
- Close one eye and put your thumb several inches in front of your nose.
- Position your thumb so it completely hides the brown eye on the screen.
- Now switch eyes. Close your open eye and open the other.
- Watch the eye hop!
Do Your Eyes Work Together As a Team?
Now that you've compared your two eye views, try testing your stereo vision with The Framing Game .
In order to see 3D your brain has to use the visual information from both eyes. If the two eye views are too different and cannot be matched up, the brain will be forced to make a choice. It will reject all or part of the information from one eye. The brain can suppress or turn off visual information it cannot use. The Framing Game can tell you whether both your eyes are TURNED ON at the same time. The illustration to the left demonstrates what should happen.
- Center your nose over the brown eye above as before.
- Focus your eyes on the single brown eye.
- Put your free thumb in front of your nose.
- Continue to focus on the eye. If both eyes are
on, you will see two thumbs framing one eye.
- Now, switch your focus to your thumb. You
should see two eyes framing one thumb.
SUCCESSFUL?
Both your eyes are ON and you are an excellent candidate for 3D viewing fun.
PROBLEMS?
- Follow the instructions again and pay close attention to where you're focusing your eyes.
- If you wear lenses, try it without them.
- Can't see two thumbs (or two eyes)? Or does one thumb disappear and reappear? Or does one thumb appear faint -- like a ghost image?
- You have a binocular problem that can be helped.
Problems are treated with in-office therapy augmented with activities done at home. One of these activities is from Home Therapy Systems.
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