About Gold Coast Vision Performance
Vision is in the brain! It starts with proper eyesight and good ocular health, but requires the visual pathways and brain to work with the structures of the eye to understand, process, and use the information that is seen. Vision is a dynamic process that is learned. When it functions properly, it helps us identify, organize, and interpret what the eyes see. When it is not functioning properly, even people with 20/20 eyesight and healthy eyes can experience serious difficulties with everyday actions like reading, writing, and moving around in space.
Functional vision includes proper eye teaming, eye focusing, eye movements, and the visual processing of information. People of any age can suffer from a functional vision issue. Whether you have a child who is struggling in school, an athlete who would like to enhance performance, or have had a traumatic brain injury, optometric vision therapy can help retrain the visual system to function at peak performance.
Vision therapy sessions are doctor designed and tailored for each patient to build or remodel neural pathways in order to enhance overall visual performance. During vision therapy, we use lenses and prisms, along with other specialized equipment, to lead patients trough guided exercises, in order to train, or retrain, the brain to send the correct impulses to the eye. This helps the patient make calculated, deliberate, and accurate eye movements, point the eyes at the correct place in space, and shift focus from near to far and everything in between. Ultimately, our goal for each patient is to achieve automaticity, or the effortless functioning of the visual system, in order to free up maximum attention for information acquisition and performance.
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