NeuroVision Center

👁️ Macular Degeneration: Protect Your Vision!

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects the macula, the part of your retina responsible for sharp, central vision. It can make reading, recognizing faces, and everyday activities more challenging.

💡 How can you help protect your eyes?

🕶️ Wear UV-protective sunglasses outdoors.
🚭 Avoid smoking, which increases the risk of AMD.
🥬 Incorporate leafy greens and colorful vegetables into your diet.
💊 Consider AREDS2 eye supplements if appropriate, especially if you have intermediate AMD. Consult your eye doctor before starting supplements.

Treatment matters, too! While there is currently no cure for AMD, treatments such as anti-VEGF injections can help manage certain forms of wet AMD and preserve vision. Low vision rehabilitation can also help patients maximize their remaining vision and maintain independence.

Regular comprehensive eye exams are essential for early detection and protecting your long-term vision!

📍 NeuroVision Center | Montclair, CA

Everybody meet Maddy! She’s our newest member at NeuroVision Center who will be training to be a Vision Therapist. She is currently studying to get her Masters in Psychology, loves to learn, and loves to work with all ages🥳☺️

65 year old male complains of blurred vision in both eyes, but worse in the left eye. He currently does not take any medications and has not been to a doctor’s office in over 10 years. No recent blood work, unknown vascular conditions, but mild complaints of intermittent headaches that occur every other day.
BCVA 20/25 with manifest findings. FDT screener full without any defects, IOP WNL.
What’s your diagnosis? What’s your treatment and management?

Maddox Rod/ Modified Thorington is performed on all of my patients during their visual rehab exams. It helps determine if the objective measurement of your eye alignment matches with your subjective response (what you perceive).
This is how the test works and how it can be performed in office at distance or at near. This test is also very effective and efficient when determining any binocular vision dysfunction, vertical deviation, or horizontal movements!
Call our office to schedule your binocular vision evaluation!

Fixation disparity testing helps us evaluate how well your eyes are aligning and coordinating while you’re looking at a target.

Even when someone has 20/20 vision, subtle alignment issues can contribute to:
• Eye strain or fatigue
• Headaches
• Difficulty reading
• Words appearing to move or blur
• Trouble concentrating
• Reduced visual comfort during near tasks

At NeuroVision Center, we look beyond how clearly you see. We evaluate how your visual system functions as a whole—including how your eyes work together.

Fixation disparity testing can provide valuable information about your binocular vision and help guide an individualized vision therapy or rehabilitation program. 👁️🧠

📍 Montclair, CA
🧠 Functional Vision • Vision Therapy • Visual Rehabilitation

Remember accommodation is a unilateral/one eye movement! The accommodative/focusing system activities should always be performed patched to encourage the control of the ciliary muscle.
When you accommodate for a near target:
1. Parasympathetic stimulation ciliary muscle contracts
2. Ciliary muscle contraction reduces tension on the zonular fibers
3. The crystalline lens becomes more spherical/convex
4. Lens refractive power increases
5. You can focus on a near object

For distance viewing, the opposite occurs:

* Ciliary muscle relaxes
* Zonular tension increases
* Lens becomes flatter
* Refractive power decreases