Binocular Vision Dysfunction with Dr. Debby Feinberg and Dr. Mark Rosner

In this episode, Dr. Danielle Tolman, PT and Dr. Abbie Ross, PT, NCS are joined by Dr. Debby and Dr. Mark to discuss visual dysfunction and the impact it can have on vestibular patients.
Dr. Debby Feinberg is an optometrist, and Dr. Mark Rosner is an Emergency Physician. They are Co-Founders and Co-Directors of the NeuroVisual Medicine Institute in Michigan, which trains other optometrists to become NeuroVisual Specialists.
Dr. Feinberg has been performing pioneering work with Binocular Vision Dysfunction (BVD), which is a condition where a vision misalignment creates difficulties with the two eyes working together to create a single 3-dimensional image, as well as difficulties with the two eyes following that image as it moves.
Dr. Mark Rosner is the Director of Education and Research at the NeuroVisual Medicine Institute. He has been actively involved in developing the specialty of NeuroVisual Medicine and in Binocular Vision Dysfunction (BVD) research since 2005. He has led the effort to validate the Binocular Vision Dysfunction Questionnaire, which is used to identify patients who most likely have BVD that will benefit from treatment.
Episode Resources
- Where to find an encyclopedic amount of information: www.Vision-Specialists.com
- Access to take the Binocular Vision Dysfunction questionnaire: www.IsItMyEyes.com
- Do you know an optometrist that wants to become a NeuroVisual Specialist? www.NVMInstitute.org
- Provider Directory, find a specialist near you: www.vision-spe...
- 5 Minute Cover Test video: www.vision-spe...
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Hosted by Dr. Abbie Ross, PT, NCS and Dr. Danielle Tolman, PT
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[@lukehall373]

I had LASIK in 2009 and if I knew I was going to develop BVD I would never had done it. I constantly am dizzy, suffer from migraine pain, unable to communicate clearly or retain information when people are speaking to me, memory issues you name it. I have been doing vision therapy since 2020 and not much difference to be honest. Going on 5 years now and I don't want to continue like this for the rest of my life, I just can't. It makes you not want to be here. Thank you for confirming that LASIK does do this you. Finally some confirmation.

[@mEE1434eva]

Don't give up. Find doctors who listen and keep track of symptoms. Hope you are ok.

[@Monogrammaton]

lasik is getting a BAD reputation starting especially recently.

[@lukehall373]

@@Monogrammaton it might seem like it is recently, but for many of us that have had it, it's been going on for a while. It's just it's happening to way to many people now and they are finally speaking out.

[@StarzzzBlaze]

How common is to have BVD, Mysphonia, Tinnitus, and VSS together? 7 years later finally I got my virtical yoked prisms. Was a hard road to explain how I felt to my doctors.

[@gatopardo9261]

This is great information. I will take the test and see if I am a candidate to contact them. Thank you so much for producing these videos. They give hope to people like me

[@BalancingActResources]

Thank you so much for your kind words-it is truly our pleasure!

[@bankerssilvermoon]

2 neurologists couldn’t figure it out went to pt for vestibular issues and was told it’s my eyes not my ears! Got into see a specialist and wow! What a difference. Everyone blamed my lupus and shoved me out the door. 😮

[@lukehall373]

A neurologist I saw just said it was a migraine. I paid for this privately as well. I know it isn't just a "migraine"

[@bankerssilvermoon]

@@lukehall373 it’s interesting when a pain from BVD competes with a migraine at the same time.

[@lukehall373]

@@bankerssilvermoon I constantly get them. I hate it. You feel like you have to take meds all the time just to get through the day, ABC sometimes sleep.

[@laceyr.2642]

Dr. Rosner, your comment about those of us with BVD being clumsy as kids.. no not in my case. I’ve always been very agile and my hand eye coordination is very good. I have experienced motion sickness most all of life though and reading comprehension issues.

[@BalancingActResources]

Hi Lacey-thank you for sharing your story.

[@cdee6480]

Thank you so much for an enlightening program! Do you have any specialists in Florida that you recommend?

[@urbangardens7470]

Sorry, but I am really skeptical. I read the questionaire and the symptoms overlap with so many vestibular disorders. I wear prisms for convergence insufficiency, but I still have eye strain and brain fog.

[@laceyr.2642]

Same here.

[@AL-ru3nk]

My dizziness is so bad now that even when i follow objects i get really dizzy. When things move I get dizzy. I feel like im on a boat most of the time i cant stand it. Do the corrective glasses have to be worn forever or do they correct the vision long term?