Finding a Neuro-Optometrist Near Me: Tips and What to Expect

Perhaps you or a loved one is among the 2.8 million Americans who sustain a traumatic brain injury each year or the nearly 800,000 Americans who have a stroke annually. Or, maybe you have a neurological health condition that affects your vision. By vision, we’re including everything — how well you see, your balance, your depth perception, and your spatial processing.

Whatever the underlying issue, you're left with a visual system deficit or dysfunction that you’d like to correct. And you’re taking an important first step by reading this blog. Below, the team of neuro-optometrists at DeyeNAMICS has pulled together information to guide you through the world of neuro-optometry.

Finding a Neuro-Optometrist Near You

You suspect that you can benefit from neuro-optometry therapies, but aren’t sure where to start. While you can find an optometrist in almost every town across the United States, the same can’t necessarily be said of neuro-optomestrists.

At Deyenamics, we’ve created a network of neuro-optometrists across the country, as we have offices in:

• Sacramento, Bellflower, and Valencia, California
• Guildford, Connecticut
• Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• Plano, Texas

So if you live near any of these areas, your first problem is solved, as you have access to a fantastic team of experienced neuro-optometrists.

Working with Your Neuro-Optometrist

Once you find a neuro-optometrist near you and set up an appointment, you might be curious about what to expect.

Each of our patients has specific needs, so there’s no straightforward answer to this. We aim to meet everyone where they are and help them move forward through targeted visual and neurological therapies.

During your first visit, we’ll review your health and how it affects the visual processing centers in your brain. We’ll also perform a few tests to see how you handle different areas of your vision, including:

• Eyesight or visual acuity (sharpness of vision)
• Depth perception
• Binocularity (how well the two eyes work together)
• Balance
• Peripheral vision
• Spatial processing

Once we have a better idea about which areas could use improvement, we’ll outline a potential plan and present a proposed course of rehabilitation for you, which may include:

• Neuro-visual postural therapy to help your body and eyes work together for spatial processing 
• Eye tracking exercises for convergence issues
• Prism lenses to help with double vision and spatial processing dysfunction
• Therapy to help with visual neglect
• Balance exercises
• Computer-based exercises

We probably won’t get into these therapies during your first visit, but we can set up a schedule moving forward that will introduce you to specific incredible rehabilitative approaches we have chosen specifically to improve the functioning of your visual system.

While it's hard to be more specific without knowing exactly what you’re up against, we do address a wide range of vision issues with an extensive arsenal of treatments and therapies to get your eyes and brain working together better. We tailor your treatments to you and your specific visual needs.

If you have more questions about what to expect during neuro-optometry rehabilitation or you’d like to schedule an appointment, please contact us at one of our offices.