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Congratulations to the Docs at Heartland!
Check out the honors and awards the doctors at Heartland recently received!
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A Potential Breakthrough in Concussion Diagnosis
Current imaging techniques such as MRI and CT scans cannot detect brain damage as a result of a concussion. New technology may be on the way to change this!
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Video Information/Testimonials From Around the World
Check out the videos demonstrating success stories from VT. This channel provides ad-free personal stories of patients or parents of patients, how-to videos, and easy-to-understand educational videos by eye doctors.
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Joint Call to Action For Patients and Providers!!
Help spread the word about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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Lazy Eyes or Lazy Brain? Strabmisus (Eye Turn)
When a person can’t control an eye people often refer to it as a “lazy eye”. However, the brain is responsible for making the eyes align. An eye turn is a problem far beyond just eyes and eye muscles, it’s a problem in the brain.
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Lazy Eyes or Lazy Brain?
When a person has an eye that doesn’t see well or turns in or out people often refer to it as a “lazy eye”. However, in these situations the eye is typically perfectly healthy. So is it a “lazy eye” or is it a “lazy brain” that is poorly controlling the eye?
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Concussions: When the Visual System Takes a Hit
Vision is processed in every part of the brain. So all it takes is one hit for a person to suffer mild or even significant visual deficiencies.
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The Importance of Active Play as a Child
Active Play as a child is essential for developing visual perceptual skills. Visual perceptual skills are the building blocks for learning. These skills begin development in infants who are interacting with their world.
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Right or Left? The importance of knowing the difference
Are these the same thing? Understanding right vs. left is a crucial fundamental skill to understanding the differences in letters, words, and numbers.
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Vision Versus Eyesight
Everyone has heard of 20/20, but this is only 1 small part of what vision actually does! Vision is used to interpret the world around us to make decisions and actions.
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