Have questions about an eye condition or vision problem? Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. explains the differences between hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism and presbyopia. You will also learn how many of these conditions can be treated with lenses, prisms and vision therapy. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. 208 West Badillo St. Covina, CA 91723 Phone: 626-332-4510 Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStepheyWebsite Videos: http://bit.ly/DrStepheyOptometryVideos The Move Look & Listen Podcast is brought to you in part, by Audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30-day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/InBound If interested in producing a podcast of your own, like the Move Look & Listen Podcast, contact Tim Edwards at tim@InBoundPodcasting.com or visit www.InBoundPodcasting.com Transcription Below: Tim Edwards: Welcome to episode two of the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network and a client of Dr. Stephey's over the past couple of years. In our last episode, we got a chance to meet Dr. Stephey and get to know him personally and professionally and to learn a little bit more about some of Dr. Stephey's unconventional methods that he practices at his optometry practice. And when we say unconventional methods, we mean when you visit Dr. Stephey, you're going to experience a session unlike you've had with any other optometrists. I can almost guarantee that. Can you back that guarantee up with me Dr. Stephey? I think that's pretty true. Dr. Stephey: Tim, I think that is true. I do practice all the kinds of regular optometry that most people can eventually know. But I do things that go back in optometry to the 1930s and 1940s. So what's interesting about a lot of this stuff is it's not really new. It's just that the profession in expanding its scope has moved away from some of the tenants that has made this kind of optometry so unique and yet at times in the field of neuro rehabilitation, especially with traumatic brain injury and concussions, the rehab community understands the value of this kind of optometry better than regular optometry itself in some cases, and certainly that's true that the neuro rehab community understands this better than the educational community or the medical community as it relates to how this kind of optometry practice can affect the quality of somebody's life. Whether they get migraines or motion sickness or headaches or have a history of dyslexia or a learning disability or ADHD or autism. This kind of optometry cuts across a lot of different disciplines and a lot of different diagnoses. Tim Edwards: And as you mentioned in our last episode, we are going to dive deep into each of those elements that you just described and how through vision therapy and through some of the modalities that you use at your practice can be relieved, hopefully, maybe and sometimes eliminated. Dr. Stephey: I think that's true. Tim Edwards: And today what we're going to do, we're going to bring it down to the elementary school level. For people like me, if you don't mind Dr. Stephey, and we're going to talk about common eye problems. So I think it would be important for those that are binge listening to this podcast, much like people do on Netflix, right? You find a show you like and you'll watch every episode, the same type of consumer habits occur with podcast listening, so let's give some basic common eye issues that you would deal with that we are all dealing with. Dr. Stephey: So the most common things that people know are nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and reading glasses. Tim Edwards: That's pretty much the scope, no pun intended, of my knowledge or something like this. Dr. Stephey: And the idea that seeing 20/20 is the holy grail of going to the eye doctor. I'm here to suggest that seeing 20/20 is a small, albeit an important piece of the puzzle, but it's just a tiny piece of the puzzle. So for example, the expression 20/20 conventionally means that you can read a letter just slightly smaller than nine millimeters at 20 feet. That's it. Tim Edwards: That's where the 20 comes in. Dr. Stephey: That's where 20/20 comes in. That's all it means. It doesn't say anything about the way you use your two eyes together, whether you see fast, how you integrate vision and auditory or vision and motor or visual and processing speed or vision and attention or vision and movement skills. It just means you can read a tiny letter at 20 feet. Tim Edwards: And why did they choose that? Whomever created this chart, right? And the distance. Why at 20 feet. Dr. Stephey: Honestly I have no idea. Tim Edwards: Because that's the size of the room when they put this whole thing together and they say well.. Dr. Stephey: There's probably some logic behind why they chose the 20 feet, but I honestly do..If I ever learned that in the past, I don't remember it. Tim Edwards: So that it's not that relevant anyway. It's just a, a ...
