PRELIM Flashcards
A branch of optometry that deals with vision care services provided to athletes.
Sports vision
maximizes visual functioning, so the patient can achieve their visual goals and improve the quality of their life
Vision rehabilitation
focuses on heightening an athlete’s visual abilities within their sport.
Vision training
a personalized program designed to treat conditions such as, amblyopia, strabismus, binocular dysfunctions, and vision-related learning problems, using eye exercises to improve their visual skills.
Vision therapy
it prevent vision and eye problems from developing or deteriorating
Behavioral optometry
Ensure the visual abilities needed in the classroom, workplace, when playing sports, and using computers
Behavioral optometry
The deriving of meaning and direction of action as triggered by light
Vision
Acquired through movement and exploration
Vision
Father of behavioral optometry
Dr. Arthur Skeffington
Answers the question, “where am I”
Anti gravity
The ability of the body to develop into an upright/vertical position and gain balance
Anti gravity
orienting force we’re exposed to when we’re born; gives us a reference point of space
Gravity
Answers the question “where is it”
Centering
Ability of a person to locate where he/she is located in space, through the use of the eyes and body
Centering
Provides the awareness of “me – it” relationships that come from movement through space
Centering
Answers the question “what is it”
Identification
through past experiences
Identification
how we use language to communicate our experiences to others and to understand what they tell us
Speech/auditory
States that vision enables individuals to gather, analyze, process, store, and respond to light information.
Dr. Gerald N. Getman
Getman’s Hierarchy of Vision
Innate response system
General motor
Special motor
Ocular motor
Speech motor
Visualization
Visual perceptual organizations
Involuntary motor responses originating in the brainstem present after birth in early child development that facilitate survival
Primitive reflexes
Primitive fight of flight reaction
Moro reflex
Automatic response to turn towards food
Rooting reflex
Often called as startle reflex
Moro reflex
Moro reflex/startle reflex lasts until
2 mos.
Teach us how to use our body for a short period of time until we develop concious control to make those movements ourself.
Primitive reflexes
Three visual pathways
Parvocellular
Magnocellular
Koniocellular
Pathway that originates in occipital cortex
Parvocellular pathway