Re: [SPAM] Re: visual perception issues optomitrist's reccomendations vs. opthalmologist's

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Good post .

Please don't feel guilty or then we will all have to 'wallow' since we have all

made bad 'dyspraxia/apraxia' choices through the years! I'm glad your son's

vision is doing so well. Now is what is important

Also a note.... not all surgeons are created equal so before you let anyone

cut.... check the reputation!

Janice

[sPAM][ ] Re: visual perception issues

optomitrist's reccomendations vs. opthalmologist's

I've posted this here before. Sorry. We did vt when my son was 8 or 9 and it

did nothing

but aggravate his eyes. When he was 12, I finally had surgery done and his

vision

improved dramatically. I will forever have mother's guilt for not getting it

done sooner and

denying him years of nearly perfect vision.

The doctor couldn't correct his vision all the way since he discovered during

surgery that

the back of my ds eye hadn't developed correctly and was still attached to the

sheath,

preventing his eye from rolling properly. Trying to detach the tissue would

have damaged

the eye so he left it. But he did cut the paralyzed muscle in the front of the

eye, which

then allowed the other muscles to perform the way they should and, within a

short time,

they were also 'picking up the slack' for the muscle that was cut.

It depends on what the child's issue is. If the issue involves training the

eye muscles, vt

seems to be helpful. If it's Brown's Syndrome or another medical condition,

then vt can

only do so much.

The solution depends on the problem, imho.

>

> Hi

>

>

> I just wanted to let you know that we took Madison to a pediatric

opthalmologist in

Atlanta, and she adamantly stated that visual tracking/exercises were

pseudoscience and

would not endorse any of the NACD program on the vision stuff. She wants to do

surgery.

I am so torn as a pediatric optomotrist recommended vt and that is less

invasive, so I

prefer to go that route.The consensus (NACD included ) is vt exercises.

>

> It seems to me, that professionals recommend their specialty, so if you go

to surgeon,

they are going to recommend surgery. BTW, I asked her staff 3 x, 2x in writing

if she did

vt and could evaluate her for such as the county was paying for the testing.

They assured

me 3x that the did evaluate for vt. Just wanted to give you heads up on this.

>

> best of luck.

> sharon