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Check-up 7

Posted on October 3, 2013
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I already knew what my improvements and results have been over the last few months but I'm always happy to go for my 'report card' to make it official. It is almost exactly three years ago that I first set foot in my optometrist's office. The situation was abysmal. Post-op…continue reading →

Book review: Fixing My Gaze by Susan Barry

Posted on September 21, 2013
/Under Behavioral Optometry and Vision Therapy research, Neurology, physiology and psychology of (strabismic) vision, Personal stories - Interviews, Vision and neuroscience book reviews
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After I read 'Fixing My Gaze' for the third time in three years I decided to write a long overdue review about the book that got this whole VT party started. I first read it during the summer of 2010. At the time I was undergoing all kinds of personal,…continue reading →

Strabismus and academia

Posted on September 12, 2013
/Under Impact of binocular vision disorders on learning and reading, Neurology, physiology and psychology of (strabismic) vision, Vision Therapy Videos
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Yes, so what about it? Well, it's complicated. I will try to explain it though. It's important to understand that my vision never could be relied on and it was always changing over the course of time. Initially as a first grader I had trouble learning how to read. At the…continue reading →

Session 60: An unconscious reflex to many, a giant leap to a strabismic

Posted on September 4, 2013
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Yesterday I had my 60th vision therapy session since I embarked on this mission almost three years ago. Things are as good as can be expected given my history. Expectations have already been exceeded several times and things are still getting better so objectively there shouldn't be any reason I…continue reading →

Session 55: A courting exercise

Posted on June 12, 2013
/Under Michael's Vision Therapy Diary, Practical VT advice and exercises, Strabismus and amblyopia (lazy eye)
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Lately motor fusion is becoming more of a given rather than a struggle. Because of the last two surgeries, almost five years ago, both converging as well as diverging my eyes had become a problem. This made for zero comfort zone. Now after more than two years of conscious effort,…continue reading →

Check-up 6

Posted on May 3, 2013
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I was quite confident coming to this 6th check-up meeting. My optometrist was equally pleased. Two years and five months before, when I first met him, I was having constant diplopia and a batch of other problems because of it. I wasn't able to align my eyes nor was I…continue reading →

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

Posted on April 22, 2013
/Under Michael's Vision Therapy Diary, Neurology, physiology and psychology of (strabismic) vision, Strabismus and sports
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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 →

Session 51: The last 10%

Posted on April 16, 2013
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I took the wrong train to get to my optometrists office today. I had to run and still arrived eight minutes late... At least I made it. The running however messed up my visual performance during this training session. I used to be a great runner but it's always been…continue reading →

What other visual anomalies do amblyopes have besides poor stereopsis or reduced visual acuity?

Posted on April 12, 2013
/Under Behavioral Optometry and Vision Therapy research, Frequently Asked Strabismus Questions, Impact of binocular vision disorders on learning and reading, Neurology, physiology and psychology of (strabismic) vision, Strabismus and amblyopia (lazy eye), Strabismus and double vision
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Amblyopia (lazy eye) is the incomplete development of binocular or two-eyed vision in the brain. The most well-known symptoms of amblyopia are the lack of 3D vision (stereopsis) and reduced visual acuity. Notwithstanding, amblyopes also often have other visual anomalies besides poor stereopsis or reduced visual acuity. May also be…continue reading →

Session 50: Anniversary

Posted on March 14, 2013
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A while ago I came up with an intuitive scale defining the worst kind of double vision leading to 'functional blindness' as -100, the tiniest bit of stereo vision as zero and a visual system performing up to its full potential as +100. Coming from -100, I position myself at…continue reading →

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