Dr. Debby Feinberg, Director of Clinical Instruction at the NeuroVisual Medicine Institute has been performing pioneering work with Binocular Vision Dysfunction (BVD) with emphasis on Vertical Heterophoria (VH) and Superior Oblique Palsy (SOP), conditions of eye misalignment that cause headaches, dizziness, gait and balance instability, anxiety, light sensitivity, neck pain and reading/learning difficulties. She has created techniques to identify the 10-15% of the population with occult but symptomatic heterophorias that defy identification with current methods. She has treated more than 10,000 patients with BVD, of which more than 5,000 have been TBI / ABI patients, and has trained over 20 optometrists from across the US and Australia in this new specialty. Her research (which has been presented locally, nationally and internationally) demonstrates that BVD is common in those TBI patients experiencing persistent post-concussive symptoms and that treatment with prismatic eyeglass lenses reduces these symptoms by 80%. She authored a book on VH patients and their experiences with VH and their treatment with glasses containing aligning micro-prism lenses. She has co-authored peer reviewed articles on TBI and VH. She was honored in 2018 with the Theia Award for Innovation for founding the field of NeuroVisual Medicine.
Sessions
VDR Symposium: A NeuroVisual Approach to Binocular Vision Dysfunction Featuring Vertical Prism