Athlete NeuroVision Centre
Compete with your body, Win with your eyes!
Visual distortion patterns that limit your sports performance are treatable – improve your NeuroVision by 10% so your eyes can lead your body to the next level of your athletic success.
NeuroVision and Athletes
Seeing is your dominant sense and over 80% of your sport intake is channeled through your eyes. Visual distortion patterns have a profound effect on sport performance; you may be working twice as hard to achieve your athletic success.
Often we do not recognize that it takes over 12 NeuroVision skills to succeed in sports, learning and life. Just one of those is your basic visual acuity (your 20/20 eyesight).
For humans (we are not perfect), often the effortless process of making sense of what is seen in your sport is not optimal or robust; typically one or more NeuroVision skills are reduced which restricts your interpretation of the visual world (your visual-GPS map) and limits sports performance.
What Is Your Aspirational Visually-Fit Sport Outcome?
NeuroVision represents a specific area of optometry, which appraises your eye-brain-body connection including the intake of visual information, visual processing (memory, speed and attention level) and how vision leads and attention-drives your sports performances. These eye-brain connections allow you to interpret the sports world into an accurate visual GPS map and then the brain to anticipate the optimal neuro-codes to drive your body’s sports performance.
Good news, I have a solution for visual distortion patterns through neuro-learning (train the brain through the eyes) to increase your NeuroVision reserves and performance in your sport.
Dr. Gall’s aim is to meet your aspirational visually-fit sport outcome; to enhance your eye-brain connection, to be better than it was, and increase your NeuroVision reserve to meet the demands of your sport today and in the future.
Book your NeuroVision Sports Screening with Dr. Gall here:
Connect with Dr. Gall regarding your NeuroVision and sports: patientcare@oakvillecentreforvision.com
What Sports Symptoms Do You Have?
- Struggling to track the ball or other players
- Over or under estimating distances
- Poor sports performance even with strong athletic skills
- Improvement is not noticed even with practice
- Trouble remembering plays
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Anxiety
- Diminished interest in sports
- Difficulty catching or throwing
- Inability to see the ball clearly
Concussion & Sports
ATHLETE NEUROVISION CENTRE AND CONCUSSION
Boosting Vision and Sports Performance
A CONCUSSION IS A FORM OF MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.
Concussions are a result from a direct blow to the head, or indirectly from something such as whiplash and twist of the head/neck.
The impact causes the brain to hit against the inside of the skull causing brain bruising or bruising of the brain stem with the aggressive twist. It is estimated that nearly ½ a million (~500,000) concussions occur yearly in the Canada.
CONCUSSION SYMPTOMS CAN PERSIST
10% of concussions result in symptoms that can last months, or more. When these symptoms are unrelenting, the patient is diagnosed with Persistent Post-Concussion Syndrome (PPCS). Although most concussion resolve within one month.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
CONCUSSIONS HAVE THESE TYPICAL SYMPTOMS. *Vision related
- Confusion
- Headache*
- Disorientation
- Vomiting and/or Nausea
- Unsteadiness*
- Light sensitivity*
- Blurred Vision*
- Double vision*
- Loss of place when reading*
- Post-traumatic amnesia
- Dizziness*
THE MISSING LINK
UP TO 1/2 OF SYMPTOMS ARE VISUAL, MEANING VISION IS OFTEN THE MISSING LINK.
Recent research suggests that over 50% of patients with concussion or post-concussion syndrome have visual problems that may cause headaches, eye-headaches, double vision, eye strain, blurred vision or dizziness.
Since seeing is our dominant-sense and about 80% of information channels through our eyes, Persistent Post-Concussion Syndrome (PPCS) may cause adults to have reduced performance in life: work, school or sports.
For some athletes with PPCS, the effortless process of making sense of what is seen is altered. One or more visual skills may be fragile and lose their auto-pilot mode and result in interference with performance in life.
OVERCOMING REDUCED VISUAL-PERFORMANCE SECONDARY TO CONCUSSION
Optometrists have a great understanding of the visual system. They have the opportunity to retrain visual skills through a program of vision therapy or neuro-optometric rehabilitation. This helps eliminate the visual symptoms most commonly associated with Persistent Post-Concussion Syndrome (PPSC) and boost vision and sports performance.
GETTING TREATMENT
YOU WILL WANT AN OPTOMETRIST DEDICATED TO NEURO-OPTOMETRIC REHABILITATION (VISION THERAPY)
Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation represents a specific area of optometry, which addresses deficits in eye-teaming, focusing, visual tracking, visual processing problems, and related visual problems. These visual problems are common with athletes who have concussion and other forms of acquired brain injury. Treatment may involve spectacle lens prescriptions, prisms, filters, special tints and vision therapy which can provide relief.
Vision therapy entails a variety of non-surgical therapeutic procedures designed to vitalize visual function. Vision therapy involves a series of treatments during which carefully planned activities are carried out by the athlete under professional supervision. The targeted treatments are determined by the nature and severity of the diagnosed condition. Vision therapy is done to boost visual and sports performance – not to simply strengthen eye muscles.