My Personal Strabismus Recovery Game Plan
It's good to have a concrete plan and "visualize" your goals in order to continue the daily struggle and not give in to desperation.continue reading →
Michael’s Vision Therapy Diary
Pacing your efforts
As we have seen in earlier posts, to some people Visual Neurorehabilitation comes fairly fast and easy. For others it can take longer due to developmental or surgical complications or injury. If VT takes its time and you seem to be stuck on a subpar functional level for a long time,…continue reading →
Visual rope skipping
The last couple of days I have been doing some rope skipping while reading an eye chart out loud. I did this both monocularly and binocularly. This exercise works on gaze stability and saccade accuracy while loading cognitively (reading/speaking) and vestibularly (going up and down movement/balance). It's hard to keep…continue reading →
Check-up 10: New location and slightly new approach
REMINDER: When reading on a desktop or laptop, you can have the article read to you by selecting the desired paragraph and clicking on the little speaker icon. Check-up 10 It had almost been a year since my last optometric evaluation. This is because there have been some personnel changes in the…continue reading →
Taking inventory and planning renewed effort
TAKING INVENTORY In my previous post, I pointed out some of the major life problems (mobility, sociability and reading) difficult and laboured eye movement control is causing. I decided to take a step back and re-evaluate. I also relistened to Fixing My Gaze to gain perspective. I came to the…continue reading →
Emotional boom and bust: A life and mind curtailed by eye muscle paresis
So far, this year had been pretty good. I felt like the perceived social and financial problems were starting to ease down and I had found a little breathing space. I re-engaged in more social settings and generally felt like time went by a little faster because things were less…continue reading →
France, Meteor shower watching and Visio-Motor Training
REMINDER: When reading on a desktop, you can have the article read to you by selecting the desired paragraph and clicking on the little speaker icon. A very good friend of mine invited me to join her and stay at her family's second home in France. The house is a skillfully renovated…continue reading →
Strabismus, mobility and cycling in particular
REMINDER: When reading on a desktop, you can have the article read to you by selecting the desired paragraph and clicking on the little speaker icon. My last official VT session, for now, was on the 27th of March, 2015. Because of a personnel change at my developmental optometrist Guy Naegels' practice, I…continue reading →
Vision Stress Testing: 5K Run
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 →