Podcast 209: Q&A

I want to bring you into this session I did recently with a parent, she's got a child with a condition called alternating esotropia. That means the two eyes don't work together. And she received a surgical console from a doctor who wanted to cut the eye muscles to try to straighten the eyes. And so she contacted me, and I'm going to play some excerpts from the session. And so if you're a parent, and your child has strabismus, this would be a good one for you to listen to. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSeyes, work, surgery, learning, called, depth perception, startle reflex, trauma, cranial-sacral therapy, eyeball, doctor, excerpt, alternating, primitive reflexes, kids, cosmetic, brain, motor, muscles 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. 00:01Hey, everybody, it's Dr. Sam and I want to bring you into this session I did recently with a parent, she's got a child with a condition called alternating esotropia. That means the two eyes don't work together. And she received a surgical console from a doctor who wanted to cut the eye muscles to try to straighten the eyes. And so she contacted me, and I'm going to play some excerpts from the session. And so if you're a parent, and your child has strabismus, this would be a good one for you to listen to. And so enjoy the show. And so the first thing I want to say to you is that if you do the surgery, basically, you're changing the length of the muscles in the eyeball, but you're not telling the brain. And so what happens is there becomes a confusion in the brain, because it's the brain that directs the eye muscles. And learning to coordinate your eyes is a skill that's learned and developed. It's an organic skill that infants, toddlers, young children go through. And so when there is a, an alternating situation in the eyes, the way to improve that is by working with the whole person with different physical therapy techniques based on their age. And so it's, it's an education process or re education to get the two eyes and the brain to work together. So whenever you do the surgery, you are then disrupting or interrupting the normal developmental arc that we go through to learn how to use both eyes together. Because once you change the length of the muscle, you're basically going for a cosmetic here. So it's going to look straight for a while. But the brain says, gee, you know, I don't know how to work these eyes now, because there's new input in the muscles. And so you end up having to do multiple surgeries, which creates more trauma, which creates more confusion. And it's probably the surgery that has the least success. And the idea that there's a critical period is dead wrong, because neuro neuroscientists are proving that you can actually access you know, different patterns, even into old age, you have to do some different things in order to, to access that. But the surgery is the last option that you want to consider. And that doctor is dead wrong about exercises and physical therapy, things don't work, they actually work really well. And I want to I want to give you a kind of a baseline on how to do that. But you don't really want to go into surgery, if you can avoid it, because it's the success rate is very low, maybe 20 to 30% at best. And the physical therapy, the success rate is anywhere between 80 to 90%. And you don't have the side effects of the trauma of the surgery. It's very,