Neurovisual Medicine and Binocular Vision

While at least 20% of the population suffers from Binocular Vision Dysfunction, almost no one knows about this condition. To make matters more difficult, people suffering from BVD have a small amount of vision misalignment not found in a routine eye exam.

Doctor Trabuc has trained at the NeuroVisual™ Medicine Institute to provide a comprehensive NeuroVisual™ Exam to uncover binocular vision disorders and prescribe specialized microprism lenses. Any eye doctor can prescribe prism lenses, but not every optometrist is specially trained be an  expert in prescribing microprisms and treating Binocular Vision Dysfunction.

Patients who are suffering from BVD feel noticeably better immediately once they begin wearing their custom-fit pair of microprism lenses. In fact, the average patient will notice a 50% reduction in symptoms by the end of their first visit. 

Over the next several visits, the prism prescription is fine-tuned and continues to improve and eliminate symptoms.

Yes, even when seeing clearly, the eyes do not always work together how they should.  

BVD can impact people of all ages. Children with BVD often struggle with reading in school, hand-eye coordination, playing sports, and car sickness.  Adults with BVD regularly experience headaches and dizziness, also anxiety from those symptoms can be severely limiting from doing normal tasks or succeeding in the workplace.  Dr. Trabuc is an optometrist in binocular vision who digs into the symptoms and findings to provide precise treatment.

Physical Findings:

• Neck pain and/or shoulder and back pain
• Struggles to walk in a straight line
• Head tilt
• Clumsy, bumping into doorways and people they are walking next to
• Prone to falling or tripping

Neurological Symptoms:

• Migraines; daily headaches
• Migraine associated vertigo (MAV) or vestibular migraine (VM)
• Seizures
• Anxiety Symptoms:
• Panic attacks in crowded areas or on highways
• Anxiety in large department stores or shopping malls
• Agoraphobia (extreme fear of open or crowded places, or leaving home)

Reading Challenges:

• Rereading for comprehension
• Skipping lines when reading
• Letters running together
• Fatigue with reading

Driving Symptoms

• Anxiety on the highway
• Car sickness or nausea
• Experience glare at night
• Trouble driving at night

Binocular Vision Symptoms:

• Diplopia or double vision
• Poor depth perception or judging distances
• Trouble catching balls
• Difficulties with hand-eye coordination
• Poor handwriting and drawing skills
• Poor eye contact
• Covering one eye to clear the image

When your eyes are misaligned, your eyes are sending two different images to the brain which it has trouble merging. When the brain receives conflicting information from each eye, it strains the eye muscles to try and correct the misalignment – this causes the symptoms of BVD, including headaches and dizziness. A small percentage of patients with BVD have diplopia (or double vision) but most patients do not see double, yet they suffer from symptoms as listed above.

For more on binocular vision dysfunction and to see if microprism glasses might provide relief for your BVD symptoms, take the BVDQ™, our Free 5 Minute Self Test to find out if you have BVD. Click the button below. We're located in Manhattan, KS and have optometrist in binocular vision to help you.