Session 2

THE FOUNDATION OF OPTOMTERY

Telling stories has become a core vehicle for communicating our thoughts, ideas, clinical insights and that which we want people to know without "lecturing" people. It helps others know what we have gone through to get where we are and that we share many more things than we could ever communicate through "teaching". Rob shares his views on why we tell stories.

The analytical

  • It’s a single probe with flow and automaticity from which we gain clinical insights.

  • Harvesting the prism equilibrium findings:

    • Embeddedness:

      • When can we prescribe something other than what we measure?

      • What cases need VT?

    • How well can the patient respond to and recover from stress

    • So, what about those qualitative findings?

  • We will explore what we get from comparing the findings at near vs. distance.

Prescribing from the inside out, while understanding the value of each of the refractive conditions:

  • Myopia – The results of stress leading to a myopic shift.

  • Hyperopia – Jan Atkinson studies and relating to strabismus.

  • Asymmetry – why does the person become asymmetric?

  • The effect of stress on behavior, asymmetry and movement.

  • Asymmetric lens prescribing options.

  • Symphony musicians – posture leads to asymmetry.

Using Tools

  • The phoropter and its use

  • The analytical - a functional single probe

  • Embeddedness - so when can we prescribe something other than what we measure. Oh yeah and: function alters structure, really?

  • Buffers - what’s so important about a small amount of hyperopia and exophoria anyway?