I do think the Vision Therapy has helped my balance because I'm supposed to do a "tracking" exercise that at first made me lose my balance and then as I got better at it, I am supposed to do the exercise with one foot in front of the other - it's surprising to see how much vision affects my balance! Before the accident I was in, I had very good balance - I was in yoga and could easily hold a position and stand on one foot for a prolonged period of time and at work I would crawl around in ceilings and on catwalks and truss in the air and since the accident just walking down the street has been difficult! My balance has gradually gotten better over the last couple of years until doing this vision therapy I have seen a much more rapid and thorough improvement of my balance in only a couple of weeks.

My vision memory was not tested - I was only given a one hour evaluation instead of a five hour evaluation. The Dr. I went for the evaluation told me she would suss out other stuff I needed during the treatment/therapy sessions. I think because the evaluations are an ongoing part of the therapy they wanted to save me some money by doing it this way, but I'm not sure.

have you tryed the prismatic glasses . i am in the same boat as you and the glasses really helped. i still drag my left leg alittle but it is improving .

Glad to hear vision therapy is helping you!

I'm almost one month into vision therapy and do not see an improvement in my symptoms(pretty much just headaches at this point) yet. But I'm still very hopeful and I've got two more months until I visit the therapist again for an update. I'm doing an in-home program for convergence insufficiency. Double Bullseye exercises(basically looking cross-eyed at two transparent cards with bulleyes on them, tromboning them about), brock string exercises, and software with various exercises(pursuits, saccadics, base in/out vergence, etc.). A link to the software, in case your interested: http://visiontherapysolutions.net/hts.php. I spend 10 minutes twice a day with the bullseye and brock string and 50 minutes once a day to perform all of the software exercises. It's a lot of work but my performance with the exercises has rapidly improved. The software gives you graph based reports on your progress which is nice. All of this is supposed to reduce my close distance viewing related headache trigger. Fingers crossed, we'll see(no pun intended)!

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10 months PCS from mTBI. Chronic daily headaches.

Hello,
I'm relatively new to this site (I've been browsing the forums but haven't posted until today) and I have some questions about vision therapy. I've been dealing with PCS for almost 3 years now and have had a lot of problems with my vision: blurred vision, palinopsia (visual trails), visual snow, flashing lights, and sometimes my eyes seem to vibrate and are unable to focus. Do these seem like symptoms that vision therapy could possibly help correct? If so, how do I find if there is a facility that has vision therapy in my area?

Thanks so much!

Laura

I used this link that Eowyn shared a little while back:

http://www.nora.cc/

I'm not sure what part of Minnesota you're from, but there are a lot of providers in the Twin Cities area; I'm seeing one in Woodbury.

I am in Rochester MN where Mayo Clinic is and still have trouble finding doctors who truly understand PCS even when they say they do

Esthersdoll, I am so glad to hear that you are doing better and that the therapy is helping!!!! Thank you for the update, and my wishes for continued healing!!!!!!!

I live in Rochester as well, and I'd have to say that the doctors at Mayo kind of dropped the ball when it came to my case. I was in and out in two weeks with no follow ups and little to no information about PCS or how to cope with long-term symptoms - definitely a source of frustration the last few years.

Hey Laurr I'm having all the same symptoms as you! Have any gone away yet? Mine seem to have gotten worse since my concussion two months ago. Did yours start right after your concussion?? I heard visual snow never goes away i'm scared!!!

I'm sorry I suffer from visual snow too. I had vision therapy a few years back and it helped with some of my focusing issues, but not with the visual snow itself.