July 16, 2021 - EyeClarity Blog
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Hey, folks, it’s Dr. Sam and I’m on my morning walk. Thanks for coming along. Today, I want to talk about the relationship between concussions and vision problems. When I opened my first practice in the Philadelphia area, I had a hard time getting patients. So I went to one of the local hospitals and I offered my services to the outpatient clinic for people who had traumatic brain injury, and who suffered concussions. And these were folks that had difficulties with focusing and depth perception, they had double vision. They had problems reading. And over a period of about a month applying my physical therapy exercises to them, they actually improved greatly. And then open, it opened the door for me to get contracts and three other hospitals. And I became a very well known consultant, helping people with concussions and traumatic brain injury. So I’ve been doing it a long time. But I wanted to go into the research and see what was actually the the link up between concussions and vision problems. And there was a study that was published in the clinical pediatrics journal, the authors were Dr. Mitch Shaiman, and Michael Galloway. And they took 100 adolescents who were diagnosed with concussions, and they found that 69% of them actually had functional vision issues. That means difficulties with tracking, eye focusing visual coordination, visual memory, those kinds of things. So there’s definitely a relationship between getting hit in the head, and how that’s going to affect your sensory motor systems, especially your vision. And my approach, the physical eye therapy exercises work tremendously well at helping people re educate their eyes in their brain and to overcome the trauma. Because when we have trauma, a lot of times our sensory motor systems actually split into two and we have difficulty integrating or coordinating our sensory systems with our motor systems. So things like craniosacral therapy, color therapy, acupuncture, taking a look at your nutrition and biochemistry, these are all ancillary supports that I recommend. But the physical eye therapy for vision is really potent in terms of helping people get their vision back. So that’s my message for today. Thank you so much for tuning in. And until next time, take good care.