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VISION AND POSTURE

Vision profoundly influences muscle tone, stability, and midline orientation. Interventions targeting the complex interplay of eyes, neck, and the vestibular system can lead to remarkable improvements in a child's motor skills, including ambulation, balance, and overall stability.

Strategic interventions in visual dynamics related to the neck and vestibular system aim to induce significant positive changes, enhancing motor development, coordination, and functional abilities.

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VISION AND POSTURE

SYMPTOMS OF INTERFERENCE BETWEEN VISION AND POSTURE 

  • Headache, migraine

  • Dizziness, dizziness, clumsiness, frequent falls, imbalance.

  • Cognitive disturbance, reading problems, attention problems.  Sensory disturbance, sensation of false movement and instability, double vision with one eye.

  • Problems in locating objects in space, discomfort in crowded places, difficulty walking in wide corridors.

  • Problems in locating one's own body: biting the tongue, lips, bumping into chairs, walking crookedly, tripping over one's own feet, objects falling out of hands easily.

  • Vomiting and nausea.

  • Difficulty in following lines, difficulty in manual work, difficulty in drawing, uncoordinated eye movements.

  • Deficit in ocular convergence: refuses to read, words move, tiredness when doing close work, visual fatigue.

OPTOMETRIC TREATMENT OF POSTURAL PROBLEMS

  1. Yoked prisms: They are used to assist in treatment and functionality in binocular vision problems, accommodative problems and traumatic brain injury, helping to stabilise the visual system, modify head and body posture and gait.

  2. Active prisms: They are used to modify the perception of space by leading the person to change their visual and body posture and to make changes in their general behaviour.

  3. Colour filters: By means of light frequencies, we can affect through the optical pathways to centres of the brain responsible for the different grabitoceptors, and improve tone and posture.

  4. Vision therapy: It offers us different approaches to work on: visual midline, relationship between the visual system and the vestibular system, relationship between the vestibular system and the cervical system. In these cases, learning opportunities can be created to modulate the motor system.

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