03 Seeing 20/20 Is Not Enough

In this episode you will learn why seeing 20/20 is simply not enough. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. will explain how the three circle Venn diagram of vision will most likely show that your last eye exam may have come up short to enable you to move, look, and listen through your life with ease.

Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S.

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Dr. Stephey: If our two eyes are not working together well as a fast synchronized team, our internal mapquest continues to be off. It's consistently inconsistent with our ability to judge time and space. Those that don't feel well-grounded, those that have some measure of anxiety, oftentimes it starts in the visual system. If you can't move, look and listen in a fast, accurate, effortless, sustainable, age appropriate, meaningful way, you're in a world of hurt. There's a whole world in vision and how it affects brain function that no one's ever shared with you. 20/20 is perceived as a holy grail of going to the eye doctor. Well, I'm here to change that paradigm. 

Tim Edwards: This is episode three of the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr. Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network. Happy to have Dr. Stephey with us here in our roster of shows as we move forward in the Move Look & Listen podcast. Dr. Stephey, we've talked about common eye problems in our last episode and now you alluded to this topic in our last episode and this is I think something that's quite interesting and I think might raise an eyebrow or two of somebody listening on the other side of the speakers. 20/20 is not enough. You've said that from the first day that I've met you and I've known you a couple of years now. 20/20 is not enough. `We've been told our whole lives. Oh you've got perfect vision. You could see 20/20. Not the case apparently. 

Dr. Stephey: That is not the case. That's right. 20/20 is presented as a holy grail of going to the optometrist and it is. I'm here to tell you it is a tiny piece of the puzzle. It's an important piece because clarity of vision is a big deal, right? But it's only a piece. So for example, picture three circle venn diagram. 

Tim Edwards: Okay. 

Dr. Stephey: And one circle is can you see 20/20. One circle is related to eye health. Make sure you don't have dry eye or glaucoma or macular degeneration or bleeding in the eye if you're diabetic or any untold number of eye health issues. That's circle two. Circle one and circle two is where most eye doctors practice. They do have a place for sure and they do have value, but there's the third circle that oftentimes is missing. And within that third circle there's pieces like, eye taming, eye focusing, eye tracking. There's components related to visual-auditory integration, visual-cognitive skills, visual-spatial skills, visual attention, visual processing speed, magnocellular vision or motion processing, visual vestibular or vision and inner ear integration issues. 

Dr. Stephey: There's a lot of stuff going on in that third circle. And my experience over the years is that if you don't do vision therapy in your practice, you tend to ignore that third circle. I went to a lunch meeting a number of years ago at a local credit union. They did lunch meetings for their employees. They invited me to come as a speaker and I talked about this specific topic. And I was talking about eye taming, eye focusing and eye tracking. And that if you didn't have those skills, you might get sleepy or tired when you read