DOSouthpaw said:
How are these kind of optometrists viewed in the general OD community? From what I read on here it seems you all are quite open to the more unusual stuff, which is cool. I know in my DO relm, it's seen as quite quacky and in the MD relm...well you know. lol
Yes, it's true some seem quacky,
I still have a hard time differentiating who is quacky and who is not when it comes to these subject matters myself. People ahead of me tell me you eventually develop an eye to differentiate who is who. You may want to stick to an academic professor from any of the 19 OD schools or somebody that the binocular vision department recommends in your area if you ever want to partner up with one of them.
There are some guidelines you should follow if you pursuit this yourself. It might be responsable to at least inquire about this. You may cause someone "horror fusions" (causes the patient double vision they didn't have before)
if you don't apply it properly.
I know DOs that hire OTs (certified orthoptic technicians) to do their physical therapy with the visual system included. That might be your style since you are looking into this. I think some physical therapist programs train their PA's to include the visual system too, with yoked prisms, or convergence excersises, that would be ideal since, for example, Stroke Patients and Trauma Brain Injury patients have visual problems along with their other physical problems. Whatever didn't get corrected with eye excersises gets corrected with prisms on their Rx. That is a delicate measurement, you don't want to put too much prism.
If you're still in the DO/MD relm of course they will think its quackery. they havent been educated in the subject matter yet. You might want to go to the ophthalmology forums, you'll be surprised how many OMDs chat about developmental ophthalmology, behavioral ophthalmology, neuro-ohthalmology. All these sub sub specialists have seen the light and truly see what's happening in the brain related with binocular vision.
This is a hard subject to tackle, Good Luck.
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