Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO's Blog Posts Tagged 'therapy' (10)

I am frequently asked, "Does Optometric Vision Therapy Work?" by the families I work with every day. If they mean, does vision therapy improve vision function such as eye movements, focusing, eye teaming and 3D vision ... the answer is a resounding YES! If they mean.... does vision therapy work to improve vision information processing....the answer is YES! If they mean that amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus can be improved...the answer is…

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....Adults with amblyopia, a common visual cortex disorder caused primarily by binocular disruption during an early critical period, do not respond to conventional therapy involving occlusion of one eye. But it is now clear that the adult human visual cortex has a significant degree of plasticity, .... One possibility is an inhibitory signal from the contralateral eye that suppresses cortical inputs from the amblyopic eye. .... Here we provide direct evidence that alleviating…

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Did you know that New Orleans is a perfect example of how optometric vision therapy should be conducted? Go to http://www.mainosmemos.com/2013/01/nawlins-knowledge-and-other-bits-of.html

to find out more!

....Dr. Stephanie Lyons, a member of the American Optometric Association and the College of Optometrists in Vision Development, along with her whole office was interviewed by Emmy Award winning TV producer Ben Hollis of Wild Chicago. Here Ben invites Dr. Stephanie Lyons, John (her husband and practice manager), and office staff to tell all about what makes Lyons Family Eye Care (LFEC) a Chicago eye…

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Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO, FCOVD-A will now be seeing patients at Lyons Family Eye Care on Chicago's north side starting in May 2012

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My students and I have created another home optometric vision therapy video. This video shows you how to do the LifeSaver Cards BI to improve divergence/anti-suppression/etc. and is less than 10 minutes in length.



Although this video is copyrighted, I have given it to the public domain for use at no cost for non-commercial purposes only.



Please use this video to help your patients or to teach you students.



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This video "Optometric Vision Therapy: LifeSaver Cards Base Out" has been created by my students and I for student and patient use. It may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes only.

 

 

 

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MainosMemos is a blog dedicated to bringing you the latest research and information about eye and vision care of children, developmental disabilities, Traumatic/Acquired Brain Injury and other topics of interest: Visit MainoMemos to find out about: Photophobia in migraine, Ketamine versus propofol for strabismus surgery in children, Medications found to cause long term cognitive impairment of aging brain, Vitamin D Boost For Mental Longevity , and How your cell phone can help… Continue

The American Optometric Association has been kind enough to use my

talents to help get the word out about binocular vision dysfunction and

the new 3D craze sweeping the country. Binocular vision

dysfunction...(eye coordination, focusing, & eye movement

problems)...within the general population has reached ...if not pandemic

proportions...at least epidemic status. There are at least 3 million

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Chicago-lands ABC WLS TV news just finished showing a HealthBeat

segment where I was interviewed on the "Avatar 3D Vision Syndrome"

during the 10 PM time slot. WLS TV Producer Christine Tressel is shown here with me (above.) Here is a bit of the transcript....click here for the full transcript....

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