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What is Myopia or Nearsightedness?
An eye disorder where light focuses in front of, instead of on, the retina, which causes distant objects to be blurry while close objects appear normal.
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What is Convergence Insufficiency (CI)
A common binocular vision disorder where the eyes do not come together closely enough when looking at a near object. It is often associated with a variety of symptoms, including eyestrain, headaches, blurred vision and diplopia (double vision).
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What is suppression?
The blocking out of one eye's image by the brain.
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What is Amplitude of Accommodation?
Measured using minus lenses, this is the maximum potential increase in optical power that an eye can achieve in adjusting its focus.
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What is Convergence Insufficiency?
The most prevalent concussion-related visual problem (diagnosis).
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Who is Dr. Darrell Boyd Harmon, O.D.?
This doctor coined the term that measures the proper reading distance of 40cm.
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What is a Brock String?
A white string of approximately 10 feet in length with three small wooden beads of different colors.
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What is intermittent exotropia?
This condition causes the eye to sometimes move outward, often when you’re tired, sick, daydreaming, or looking in the distance.
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What is Base Out Plus and Base In Minus?
The full description of the acronyms BOP and BIM, respectively.
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What is TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)?
This acronym denotes a type of injury to the brain that is external from the body, such as a concussion from a car crash.
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What is College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD)?
A non-profit, international membership association of eye care professionals including optometrists, optometry students, and vision therapists that was established in 1971.
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What is Voluntary Convergence?
The ability to converge the eyes without the aid of a fixation stimulus.
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What is the Crowding Effect?
A perceptual phenomenon where the recognition of objects or letters is impaired by the presence of other neighboring objects.
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What is +2.50?
The goal for the maximum power of plus (+) lenses that a patient is able to use during Monocular Accommodative Rock (MAR) techniques.
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What is the Vesitbular System?
The parts of the inner ear and brain that help control balance and eye movements.
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Who is Dr. Susan R. Barry?
This neuroscientist, who loves the Brock String, wrote a book titled “Fixing My Gaze”, to share her experience with Vision Therapy.
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What is P (BI) and 3 (BO)?
The BI and BO break goals of Vectogram - Quoits.
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What are Shaw Lenses?
Specialty lenses that helps equalize the size of the images from each eye, allowing the patient to integrate the images more easily.
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What is 15 - (1/4 of patient's age)?
The formula for calculating a patient's minimum expected amplitude of accommodation.
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What is Palming?
A sensory calming technique where a patient places their hands gently over their eyes to reduce exposure to light and allow rest.
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What is Nystagmus?
A vision condition in which the eyes make repetitive, uncontrolled movements.
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What is Physiological Diplopia?
When objects in front of or behind what you are looking at are seen as double.
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What is an OKN Drum (Optokinetic Drum)?
The interior surface of this drum is normally striped; thus, as the drum rotates, the subject's eyes are subject to a moving visual field while the subject remains stationary.
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What are Bi-Ocular Procedures?
Procedures that present stimuli to the two eyes simultaneously, with both eyes open, without opportunity for fusion.
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What is Syntonics?
A form of light therapy, that is non-invasive, and is used to treat a variety of vision problems, including visual field loss after a concussion or ABI.
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