Functional optometry

Functional optometry deals with functional disorders of healthy eyes that arise due to impaired visual behavior or incorrect visual development.

The aim of optometric visual training is not to be able to do without visual aids. The training improves visual comfort and spatial perception and increases the ability to concentrate.

These improvements are achieved through targeted and individually tailored training sessions.

Functional optometry comes from the English-speaking world, where it is referred to as behaivoral optometry.

Conventional spectacle lens prescription includes the measurement of short-sightedness (myopia), long-sightedness (hyperopia) and/or astigmatism. The functional optometrist also tests:

• the correct execution of eye movements
•  the direct fixation of targets during gaze jumps
• The ability and duration of the eye lens to see objects in focus at close range
•  the correct eye position
•  the 3D effect which is only achieved when both eyes are involved at the same time.
•  the visual processing
•  the level of development in children for optimal training design

Simply put, functional optometry tests the "fitness level" of your eyes. The limits are sought and the test results are used to decide whether visual training is promising or not.

If complaints such as headaches, concentration problems, blurred vision, reading, learning and writing difficulties, increasing short-sightedness are detected despite the best possible visual aids, this may indicate visual deficits. Individual and targeted training can significantly reduce or even eliminate these deficits. An investment that pays off! Once you have learned to see properly, you will never lose this ability again.

Syntonics optometry

Syntonics is a color light application based on scientific findings. The positive effect of light on the human organism has been known for a long time. With Syntonics, an individual colored light application is applied via the visual system on the basis of previous history, optometric measurements, color vision fields and pupil reaction. This allows the light to act quickly and directly on important centers of the brain.

• it improves coordination between the eyes and the brain
• it improves cooperation between the eyes
• it reduces the squint angle
• enables longer periods of concentrated work on the screen
• improves the assessment of distance and speed
• promotes fatigue-free reading
• leads to stress-free vision
• reduces reaction time
• - increases performance in everyday life, school, work and sport

Visual training is divided into 4 groups

It has long been known that targeted training can have a positive influence on the visual process. Many people are dissatisfied with their vision. In most cases, the problems are resolved after a visit to the ophthalmologist or optician and the subsequent purchase of a visual aid

Some people, however, are not helped by this. Despite fairly good vision, they still have problems. We differentiate between four groups that can be helped with training:

• General abilities
• Children with learning to read problems
• Myopia (short-sightedness)
• Amblyopia/strabismus (weak-sighted / cross-eyed)

General abilities:

After buying glasses, you may be able to see the screen more clearly, but the eye still tires very quickly, you lose concentration, the lines blur, the image becomes choppy and may flicker. As a result, errors creep into our daily work. People also often report complaints such as headaches, burning, red eyes or neck problems. When stress increases, migraine attacks and nausea can also be triggered.

These are the effects when overload occurs despite existing visual performance. Mostly people with a VDU workstation are affected. Visual training achieves a corresponding visual relaxation and increases the resilience back to a normal level. The symptoms are reduced and less energy is needed to see...

Learning reading problems in children:

Children often find that they cannot concentrate for long enough on the tasks they are given. Especially when working at close range, they find it difficult to stay focused on one point for long periods of time. Because they need a lot of energy to do this, they are completely exhausted after a short time. Such children are often wrongly regarded as lazy or disinterested. They simply cannot sit still. If you carry out a detailed analysis of the visual system, you will often find small deficits that simply make it impossible for the child to stay focused for any length of time. In such cases, the visual process and therefore the learning process can be improved (accelerated) with targeted training. Suddenly the children know what they have read because the processing of what they have seen now works. Visual training teaches them the fast and fluid eye coordination that is essential for reading and writing.

Myopia: (short-sightedness)

If myopia is congenital or already established, it cannot be reduced with visual training. In many cases, myopia is functional; this mainly affects young people between the ages of 14 and 25 who need new, stronger lenses or contact lenses almost every year. Even middle-aged people who suddenly become more short-sighted due to a lot of close work can positively influence this process with training. Through training, myopia can be reduced, stopped or even a reduction in the required correction can be achieved.

 Weak-sightedness / strabismus: ( amblyopia / strabismus)

Amblyopia (weak vision)

Amblyopia usually develops as functional deficits in eye coordination in young children. The "emmetropization", i.e. the reduction of the naturally innate and normal hyperopia, is not carried out by one eye in the desired way. The so-called weaker eye does not fixate "centrally", i.e. it does not use the fovea centralis (retinal pit) for vision, but a neighboring area with lower visual acuity. The child (or even the adult) must therefore learn to fixate centrally with both eyes.