Strabismus and sports

Vision Stress Testing: 5K Run

Posted on April 28, 2015
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April 14th, 2015 After being out for a couple of years and focusing my energy on my vision, I decided to slowly give running another try. Running is not my main focus but I try to use it as complementary training to my vision rehab. That is, when I feel…continue reading →

Some of my current home based VT activities

Posted on August 7, 2014
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Everything we do or don't do has neurological consequences. That's why everything we do or don't do matters. It's important to note that these activities are not suitable for every VT patient. Nor are they suitable at any stage in the rehabilitation process. They are suitable for me because my…continue reading →

Setting goals for July 2015

Posted on July 3, 2014
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Much of VT comes down to setting small but attainable goals for yourself and then reaching them. Then doing that again, and again, and again. Three years ago a goal would be 'any reduction of the strabismus angle is a win'. The first two years I would systematically halve my…continue reading →

Football without stereoscopic depth perception (video + optometric analysis)

Posted on June 24, 2014
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HISTORY As a strabismic child that suppressed one eye at the time, I played football (soccer) during every recess period at school. Clearly I had no stereo vision. Nonetheless I was a fairly good player and loved playing. I could be totally absorbed by it. At one point I also…continue reading →

Can standing on your head result in better vision? Please read before you go around breaking your neck.

Posted on June 5, 2014
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"My lazy eye turned on on New Year's Day, I don't have amblyopia anymore and I do have depth perception for the first time in my life. The whole world is more beautiful than I ever could have imagined. I will be 70 years old in the fall. Last June…continue reading →

Things that make you wonder…

Posted on May 22, 2014
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This morning I went for an eye-hand basketball training session at the local public basketball court. Near point fixation for better reading skills is my priority but you can't focus on that all day because then it gets counter productive. On the court next to the one I was occupying…continue reading →

Vision Therapy Loading

Posted on December 8, 2013
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'Loading' is a term used in Vision Therapy meaning the unconscious application of visual skills consciously acquired during therapy while doing other activities. The idea is to not only be able to point your eyes at the same place at the same time but also be able to do it…continue reading →

An amateur’s golf quest sheds light on how we learn: some vision therapy related thoughts

Posted on April 22, 2013
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I'm working on some more technical vision nerdy posts for the near future but meanwhile I came accross an interesting Time Magazine article. A 30 year old commercial photographer named Dan McLaughlin living in Portland, Ore., quit his job and decided to make some changes. He committed himself to a…continue reading →

The extreme visual skills of an Apache fighter pilot

Posted on October 18, 2012
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My VT friend Diane Calvert from New Zealand shared a very cool excerpt with me from a book called “Apache” by Ed Macy about Apache fighter pilots in Afghanistan. Earlier I blogged about a different kind of ‘Vision Therapy’ during which a blind man learned how to see with his…continue reading →

The relationship between strabismus and sports

Posted on February 29, 2012
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I just went running. Strength is returning and I'm more relaxed. Communicating sources, I suppose. The experience I wanted to share is the following... After running for a while and especially the brief period after running lasting a few minutes, my eyes point at things more correctly. This is interesting because obviously…continue reading →