Full Transcript Introduction to vision myths 0:00 Most of what you've heard about vision is unfortunately wrong. 0:04 Today, I'm gonna talk about five myths about your eyes and specifically the eye-brain connection that could be ruining your vision and really holding you 0:13 back from your true potential in way more ways than you may realize. 0:17 Hi, am Dr. 0:18 Bryce Applebaum and I am a functional eye doctor and my passion, my specialty is optimizing the eyebrow connection with a revolutionary form of treatment 0:28 called vision performance training. 0:30 And I truly believe that there is so much more to vision than just 20-20 eyesight.
Myth 1: 20/20 eyesight is not perfect vision 0:34 All right, myth number one, 20 20 eyesight equaling perfect vision. 0:38 Eye charts measure clarity, but not how the brain processes vision eyesight is just a symptom. 0:45 It's how well we can see a certain symbol at a distance. 0:48 So that's, how we see letters on a letter chart or street signs or for a child with a teacher writes on the board in the classroom. 0:55 Vision, though, is so much more complex. 0:58 Vision is how our eyes move together and converge and track and focus and process information and how we derive meaning from the world around us and then 1:07 direct the appropriate action. 1:08 So someone can have 20-20 eyesight, but still struggle with reading, with depth perception, and with focus, or even just navigating through space. 1:17 Myth number two, glasses or contact lenses fix your vision. 1:21 Glasses and contacts in reality correct clarity.
Myth 2: Glasses and contacts only correct clarity 1:24 They correct the symptom of something being blurry. 1:27 but they don't solve the underlying eye condition and the coordination issues or the inefficiencies with the eye brain connection. 1:35 It's kind of like putting a stronger bandaid on a wound without actually healing the wound. 1:40 We got to get to the root cause to figure out why the symptom of poor eyesight is occurring. 1:44 Myth number three. 1:46 Kids struggling to read must have dyslexia. 1:49 Dyslexic by definition means difficulty reading words, but there can be so many reasons why it's difficult to. 1:56 Read in reality, functional vision problems that are often hidden can mimic symptoms of dysluxia, skipping words mixing up letters struggles with reading.
Myth 3: Reading struggles are not always dyslexia 2:07 One in five children has a vision problem significant enough to impact reading. 2:12 And there's so much more that goes into reading in terms of how the eyes work together as a team, how inside and outside muscles of the eye are working 2:20 in synergy, How the brain is processing that information, which ultimately dramatically influence reading ability. 2:27 Myth number four. 2:28 Concussions only affect memory, but not vision. 2:32 Reality is head injuries often disrupt the visual system, even when the eyes look normal. 2:37 The National Institutes of Health right down the road from one of my offices in Bethesda, Maryland says that 28% of Americans have had at least one head injury, 2:46 one concussion in their lifetime. 2:48 And so often the symptoms that we're dealing with can often be related to a prior head, but we don't even know about it. 2:55 There's more areas of our brain dedicated to processing vision, not eyesight, than all of the other senses combined.
Myth 4: Concussions can affect vision 3:03 And two thirds of neurons entering our brains actually come from our eyes. 3:07 So it's kind of impossible to have a head injury and not have vision be impacted. 3:11 It's just a matter of at what level. 3:13 So an example of this could be an athlete who is suffering from headaches, blurred vision, light sensitivity, sensory overload going through the hallways 3:21 of school or going to a mall or grocery store. 3:25 It's the vision that's impacted, not the eyesight. 3:28 And unless you're looking at the eye-brain connection, that is going be a missed massive opportunity to returning back to previous level of function. 3:35 Myth number five, a lazy eye can only be treated with patching or with surgery. 3:41 The reality is the issue is how the brain is using the eyes, often not having to do with weak muscles or eye muscle strength or muscle length. 3:50 A lazy eye often is not what you think. 3:53 It's not about weak muscle, it's about the brains coordination of the two eyes together as a team. 4:00 So amblyopia, which is a medical term for lazy and strabismus, the medical terms for an eye turn, There are often two eye problems that are showing up
Myth 5: Lazy eye treatment goes beyond patching 4:10 as a symptom in just one eye, and that's why treatment really needs to be addressed on a two-eye basis. 4:17 We see patients every day who've been told that their only options are surgery or patching, but those approaches often miss the root cause, 4:25 which is that breakdown of how the brain is coordinating the eyes together as team. 4:30 And patching is a hundred plus year old protocol that in many cases can actually make the eye coordination worse by preventing the eyes from working together 4:40 by covering up one eye. 4:41 And it's taken this mindset of that there's a good eye and there is bad eye, so we have to cover up the good eyes so the bad has to work. 4:49 Ultimately, we need to teach the lesser seeing eye how to function in the presence of the better eye And surgery often may alter the appearance of how 5:00 the eyes look, but it definitely does not guarantee that the brain will use them together as a team. 5:06 With vision performance training, we not only see cosmetic improvements, with that, But we see functional improvements with the actual rewiring of the 5:15 Brain required to restore proper function. 5:18 So that means improved depth perception, clearer vision, steadier focus, less fatigue, functional vision training can use the eyes to rewire the brain 5:28 to change how we're using vision so that both eyes can work together. 5:31 All right. 5:32 To tie all this together and to summarize, there is so much more to vision than just 2020 eyesight. 5:38 It's about how your eyes and your brain work together in harmony. 5:42 At My Vision First, we don't just help people see, We help them see what's possible.
Conclusion and call to action 5:47 If you're ready to unlock your potential through vision, take the free quiz at myvisionfirst.com forward slash quiz, or get my top five natural ways to 5:57 improve vision at screenfit. 5:59 com forward, slash guide to start your journey today. 6:03 Links are also in the description below this video. 6:06 Thank you so much for watching.
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