5 F's of Vision
Clinics using NeuroVisuopathy(Vision Therapy) views vision as a multi-faceted concept. To re-program the brain from a visual function, requires many different aspects of how we use vision. It also requires what changes or goals in our life we would like to achieve. Simply put it requires the "5 F's of Vision."
These are Field of Vision, Focus, Fixation, Fusion, and Flexibility.
Fields, our perception of not only how clear we can see centrally but the guidance system for how we aim our eyes, and the span of how much information can be assimilated from the brain at each glance.
Focus not only requires seeing objects sharply at a distance, intermediate, or near, but being able to shift focus and hold the image clearly without effort. This can also involve dynamic Visual Acuity such as needed for hitting a baseball, tennis or driving.
Fixation, how we aim both eyes at the same place at the same time which is so necessary for accurate reading.
Fusion, using the information from both eyes at the same time and processing depth perception or 3-D Vision.
Flexibility, the ultimate use of the functional Field of Vision, Focus, Fixation, Fusion, and the integration of mental processing of reading, comprehension, memory, balance, rhythm, timing, directionality, with integration of other senses.
Fast Track
Depending on the individual clinics capacity of providing this care, many offer an accelerated approach to treatment. A series of therapy is considered to normally be twenty sessions but completed over 10 days of care seeing the patient twice a day. There are multiple levels of conditions that a patient will present.
Each must be discussed after the evaluation, to determine which course of care would be in the best interests of the patient and what derived beneifits they may desire from therapy. Therapy administered over 6 months to a year and a half, requiring a great deal of home therapy, also becomes more expensive as additional sessions may be required because of the backtracking the patient makes by not having the full balance of desired skills in place.
With this intensity of care, normal daily activities should be eliminated, no school, homework, work, and with adults it is much preferred they also change their routine environment, literately living and eating in different places than their normal routine. The old saying "if you like what you have, just keep doing what you are doing and you will continue to have what you have, but if you want to change YOU must change."
With this accelerated basis of therapy, a patient does not have the opportunity to stay with old habits that tend to slow down and mentally keep the very pressures of life reversing what you are attempting to change. Changing mental processing of information can be very exhausting to the patient and falling back on old habits makes progress less efficient to many.
A great number of patient's, once they have achieved the basic goals, desire to return for enhancement care. They are then seeking more specialized aspects of how their life can accelerate additional goals that could not be addressed with the initial remediation phase of care.