Podcast 149: Lecture

Here is a lecture I gave a bit ago. Don't miss it! Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, visual, pupil, child, sensitivity, defensiveness, add, midline, vision, double, vestibular, reflex, therapy, prisms, practitioner, kids, response, patching, light, alternating Hello, everyone, its 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. I think visual regard is a very important observational assessment tool. And the reason why I say that is because we get to see the child in their time space environment, you know, they're outside of that clinical assessment, even, even when,you have an environment, that's very supportive, but you're doing like tracking stuff, and, you know, some of the more visual visual tests, it's a whole different thing when you're observing them as as it relates to their, you know, to their eye body coordination in space in real space. And that's why in the testing, my eye exam is really all about, okay, how does this child move through space? What's their proprioception capability, like the vestibular potential, and that's why we put the prisms on and we watched them walk, and I'm really observing. In fact, visual regard that might be another interesting thing to add is to have them where the prisons and watch you know where what's happening with their posture, their their feet, that's always a big one. And you know, many other things going backwards. That's, that's a big one in my in my perspective. But I think that visual regard, I was so happy to see this in your, your testing. But like, for example, over focus child compensates with vision to coordinate body movements and move through space. So we do in our workshops, we actually ask the participant to over focus, please over focus, so we can watch you please. What's under focus? What do you do when you under focus? And then the additional observations that you have here? Like, yes, putting the metronome on and having to bounce the ball to the metronome? Do they have a regard for their auditory processing? Or are they completely oblivious, and will even ask them, did you hear the metronome? No, you know, and just yesterday, I had a couple of assessments, where each child was unable to track the auditory part of the metronome while they were doing a visual motor task. And so that really showed me a lot around their, you know, their visual information processing. Also with the Marsden ball, like we'll have them just hit the ball and then we'll play the Simon says game, we may add the metronome to it. And it will see them fragmenting falling apart. Emily even I was working with a four and a half year old yesterday, it was a telemedicine and we were testing the Moro reflex. And we were doing the starfish and this boy, no matter what could not coordinate his arms with his legs and his head. And his diagnosis was moderate, a stigmatism in the eyes. And he they've been to two different eye doctors and they got these huge astigmatism corrections. He's having no visual symptoms. But you could see how he was fragmenting things and how one side of the body was really different than the other side of the body. And I pointed out to the mom, this is where the astigmatism started. And of course, he was a forceps delivery. The the cord got wrapped around his neck, and he was really twisted up at the very beginning. And so now fast forward to four and a half. And they they put drops in his eyes, and they came up with this farsighted astigmatism correction....