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Services
"There is no professional who has more power to change a person's life than his optometrist doing his job properly."
- Leo Manas, O.D.
Intermediate Visual Examinations: This is a comprehensive examination with additional testing to explore, in depth the patient’s specific eye movements and visual perceptual nature. This type of examination is appropriate for patient's with reading problems, concentration difficulties, headaches, fatigue, night and computer vision difficulties, trouble with sports and balance (such as motion sickness and vertigo), as well as emotional and anxiety disorders.
Visual Perceptual Analysis: A visual perceptual analysis, as practiced at The Center for Visual Management is a measurement of performance in the triad of eye, mind, and body. The purpose of the procedural design is:
- To measure and observe the efficiency level of performance in traditional and novel tasks.
- To investigate the solutions of the individual's response to conscious and unconscious constraints. Such solutions surface in behaviors of posture, attention, organization, and thought.
- To probe the established behavioral skews with performance enhancing lenses in order to answer the question “once inorderly behavior becomes established, can it be modified or changed to a higher, orderly level of performance?”
Kaplan NonVerbal Battery: This method of testing facilitates the examination of autistic patients, as well as other patients who may resist standard testing. This battery is the outgrowth of decades of testing "untestable" patients and is built on the approach of observing your patient, and allowing them to teach you how to help them.
The series of tests included in the Kaplan NonVerbal Battery exam places a variable amount of demands on a patient's ability to use the visual system to process information. Pre and post testing using yoked prism lenses, reveals a detailed illustration of how the individual's sensory-motor apparatus copes with systematic alteration. Existing deficits in vision surface in the following three areas:
- Posture - How does the patient hold his or her body? Does the patient toe inward or outward, or up on his or her toes when walking? Does the patient tilt his or her head?
- Attention - Does the patient pay visual attention? If so, for how long is the attention sustained? Does the patient attempt to shut down one form of sensory input in order to attend to another - for instance, by covering his or her ears while watching television, to reduce auditory input?
- Disposition - Is the patient habitually relaxed or tense? Does he or she exhibit "stims" in the form of flapping, scratching or rocking?
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