The Unexpected Benefits of Vision Therapy
Vision training offers a solution for individuals with visual processing disorders or problems interpreting the information provided by the eyes. While there are expected benefits, such as an easier time focusing and concentrating, there are also many unexpected benefits that can result from vision training. Decreased Injuries Do you find yourself or your child constantly bumping into objects, always having a range of bruises across the body from the many injuries it sustains? This might, in part, be due to problems with proprioception, which is the awareness of your position and movement in space. When there is a problem with the neural pathway responsible for this, you may find that you continually bump into objects. This happens because your brain misjudges how close they are or how much space there is for you to travel through. With vision training , you heighten the neural pathways responsible for proprioception, meaning you will spend less time bumping into objects as you tr...