PRELIMS Flashcards
branch of
optometry that deals with vision
care services provided to athletes,
including the examination of an
athlete’s ocular health, correction,
protection, management of eye
injuries, and sports vision training
to enhance visual and brain skills
to optimize athletic performance.
SPORTS VISION
maximizes
visual functioning, so the patient
can achieve their visual goals and
improve the quality of their life.
VISION REHABILITATION
a type of
training that focuses on
heightening an athlete’s visual
abilities within their sport
VISION TRAINING
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
To prevent vision and eye
problems from developing or
deteriorating
BEHAVIORAL OPTOMETRY
To provide treatment for vision
problems that have already
developed (eg: eye turn,
shortsightedness etc)
BEHAVIORAL OPTOMETRY
needed in the classroom, work
place, when playing sport and
using computers, are developed
normally and working well.
BEHAVIORAL OPTOMETRY
deriving of meaning
and direction of action as triggered
by light.
Vision
Look towards the cup
Centering
Make estimation and
understanding about how far
away the cup is to reach your
hand
Centering
How big that cup is –> How
much should you open your
hand
anti-gravity
Where your mouth is so that
you don’t smack yourself in the
face
anti-gravity
acquired through
movement and exploration
Vision
Father of Behavioral
Optometry
DR. ARTHUR SKEFFINGTON
Optometrist
Where am I?
Where are my body parts one in
reference to another?
Foundation of vision
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
Semicircular canals
– Otoliths
• Proprioception
– From the body in general
– From the cervical ganglion in the
upper spine
• 20%
ANTI-GRAVITY
General
body from stretch
receptors in the muscles and
connective tissues of the body.
This’ is like the
eyes of the body, the way the body
sees itself. And if it goes, it’s like
the body’s blind.”
PROPRIOCEPTION
skin, muscles,
joints
Stress receptors
rare condition that affects the
sensory of the patient
- Don’t know where their senses
without mirror
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Everything the person uses to
answer the fundamental 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.
Involves selecting an object in
space for attention and
directing the Head, body and
eyes toward it.
Centering
What is it?
ACCOMMODATION
IDENTIFICATION
This is the manner in which we
inform ourselves, how we are
conscious about that which we are
experiencing either in the hereand-now or in the imagined sense.
In addition, this is also how we use
language to communicate our
experiences to others and to
understand what they tell us.
SPEECH/ AUDITORY
(COMMUNICATION)
What can I tell you about it?
SPEECH/ AUDITORY
(COMMUNICATION)
Depth perception and binocular
vision are dependent upon
visual development within
these 2 circles.
ANTI-GRAVITY & CENTERING
CIRCLES