What is OpticNeuro Lens Therapy?
Learning from direct patient care
For twenty-years, Dr. Loopeker has chosen to remain actively involved in direct vision therapy care because of the clinical insight discovery and unique learning environment that only one-on-one rehabilitative care can support.
Dr. Loopeker’s continued learning has led him on a path that concentrates his effort towards understanding the relationship of how the visual, vestibular and proprioceptive systems work together in order to provide a precise and accurate internal body and external space map; how these perceptual maps may become distorted upon neurological insult; and the resultant sensory-motor consequences of such neurological injuries.
After treating nearly 2000 patients with similar neurological presentations, Dr. Loopeker has devised a unique and effective assessment and treatment protocol that has been successfully used to help hundreds of his patients suffering from concussion-like visual and vestibular dysfunctions.
Using the power of lenses
Dr. Loopeker uses customized prism lenses to re-synchronize his patient’s visual, vestibular (balancing mechanism of the inner ear) and proprioceptive (body’s ability to sense its location and movements) systems to re-establish a unified understanding of where their body is in space.
Upon wearing the lenses, the body no longer feels lost and the brain and body can begin to relax and communicate better. This therapeutic approach is specifically effective in treating patients suffering from a visual-vestibular mismatch. OpticNeuro Lens Therapy (ONLT) is used together with more traditional vision therapy exercises to offer a more comprehensive rehabilitative program. We have discovered that once the vision and vestibular systems are re-integrated, our patients often become much more responsive to other therapeutic approaches (e.g. physiotherapy, vestibular, auditory, pain management).
For a greater understanding of what we do from the personal experiences of our patients follow the link below: