How Vision Relates to Our Body and Consciousness

This is a presentation I gave to a group of occupational therapists on how vision relates to our nervous system, trauma, and our consciousness. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS astigmatism, prisms, reflex, child, eye, primitive reflexes, peripheral vision, vestibular, test, prescription, breathing, vestibular stimulation, van orden, kids, meridian, stigmatism, proprioception, vertigo, trauma, macula Hello, everyone. It’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Well, good afternoon. It's so great to be back with you. And I'm excited to share all this information. Also want to leave time for Q&A, make sure we've got plenty of space to do that. So in our list here today, I want to go through several things, and then we can elaborate, if need be. So the first thing on the list is a quick review about how to read glasses, prescriptions. And by the way, if anybody wants to say something in the chat, they can, I can also bring you on, if if you need clarification. So when you get a child and you're looking through their file, and you get the prescription, there some notations that you can look at now will at least give you an indication on what they have been prescribed. So in the nomenclature of the eye prescriptions, which is an FDA approved document, the Eau de represents the right eye, and the OS represents the left guy. 01:22 And usually the OD is on top and the OS is on the bottom, usually in a prescription form. So the first thing that you want to look at is whether the first number has a plus sign or a minus sign in front of it. So a plus sign means that there's going to be a farsighted prescription. This is the magnification lens, a plus lens, or a minus lens, which is a negative lens, a nearsighted lens, a minus lens. And on a real basic level, a plus lens, usually a person has more difficulty seeing things up close. This is also a prescription that's used more for strabismus and amblyopia, generally speaking. And nearsighted. Minus lens means that a person is having more struggles in the distance that they can see well up close. So whatever you're seeing plus or minus, that's going to cue you the first number is going to be farsighted or nearsighted. Lis, so let's say for argument's sake, it's a one. So this means that if it's a plus one, that means that the prescription is farsighted. We call that the sphere SPH. And then if you look at the next, a number over and you'll see above it c y L, that's called cylinder. That's the astigmatism part of the prescription. And if an ophthalmologist is doing the examination, he was going to write it in a plus cylinder plus a stigmatism format. If it's an optometrist, he or she is going to write it in a minus cylinder format. Now, at this point, it doesn't really matter because you're not going to be transposing prescriptions, meaning that you're converting them all to minus cylinder. But you'll know that if it's a plus cylinder, the ophthalmologist did the exam. And if it's a minus cylinder, the optometrist did the exam. And then you're going to look at the next number over and that's going to be the amount of astigmatism in the prescription. Now a astigmatism means the eye is shaped more like an egg, or a football. Also perceptually a person, when they look through an astigmatism lens, there's a warp. So there's an irregular blur that's going on.