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Old 02-19-2010, 08:21 PM
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I don't think Mark has ever tried vision therapy, so I'm not sure he would be a good person to ask. I have tried it and it works very well. If you are interested, check out these websites:

http://www.novavision.com/Home.html

http://nora.cc/content/view/93/86/

I would recommend contacting someone from the NORA (not NOVA) website. I worked with someone from here who was associated with them and she was very good and very comprehensive.

You may also want to look into vestibular rehabilitation as the visual system and the vestibular system work in conjunction with each other.

Most insurance companies will pay for visual rehabilitation but not without a hassle. Get the codes from the vision therapist and call your insurance company. If they say that they do pay for it, get it in writing. For some reason, insurance companies like to fight not paying for this even though the FDA has cleared it for reimbursement.

Vestibular rehab will definitely be covered though because physical therapists who specialize in this field administer the therapy.

Typically what happens is that once your physiologic symptoms begin to disappear, the psychological ones follow suite. This makes sense because for most of us, the physiological symptoms are what causes the psychological ones, i.e. depression.
And these therapies are not about finding new ways of doing something. They are about reprogramming the brain to operate at an optimal state. Some people even find that after doing the therapy, their vision/balance improves beyond where they were before the head injury
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