Eye Therapy at VRT Los Angeles

Studies show that eye therapy exercises help reduce the risk of falling, especially in the elderly. Much of your balance is tied to vision, so when your eyes start moving in ways that trigger vertigo, dizziness, or motion sickness, eye therapy can help you regain control. At VRT Los Angeles, eye therapy is part of our comprehensive lineup of therapies designed to help restore balance, reduce or eliminate your symptoms, and minimize fall risk.

Your vestibular system, the sensory system that gives you a sense of balance, consists of several tiny organs inside your inner ear that collect feedback from other parts of your body and tell your brain how your head is oriented.

Your eyes are directly connected to your vestibular system via nerve fibers, and pass on a lot of information to help maintain balance. When your eyes stop being reliable, it throws off feedback from the rest of your body as well. Balance information gets miscalculated or jumbled, translating into dizziness, blurred vision and balance issues.

The purpose of eye therapy is to stabilize your gaze. Gaze stabilization exercises sync your eyes and brain back up. Your eyes need to be able to keep the world in focus both when you're stationary and moving. These exercises help your eyes, inner ears and brain recalibrate so they're all on the same page, which then enables information from the rest of your body to be properly processed.

Gaze stabilization exercises can induce nausea and dizziness, but the good thing is these symptoms do not mean you did the exercises wrong. They're simply a measure of progress and an indicator of how you should pace yourself. The better you feel while performing basic exercises, the more you're recovering and the sooner you can progress to more advanced therapies.