Visual Integration Therapy
Rehabilitation of impaired eye movements and visual reflexes can be the key to resolving your neurological issues and getting you back to living your best life.
Visual integration therapy is thus a crucial component of your treatment program. Visual reflexes and voluntary eye movements are frequently impaired in nearly all central neurological conditions. Impaired eye movements can be seen in concussions and brain injuries, headaches, dizziness and vertigo, neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, chronic pain states, and even mental health conditions.
If you want to be able to make sense of your world, you need to be able to localize yourself inside it. This requires appropriate eye movements. I rebuild these to help you move freely in the world and get you back to living the life you deserve.
What Is Visual Integration Therapy?
Many neurological conditions involve the inability to make sense of where you are in the world. Before you can properly interact with the world, you need to be able to accurately localize yourself in space. This requires proper visual mapping to the world, and involves a number of different types of eye movements. Visual reflexes and voluntary eye movements are frequently impaired in neurological conditions.
Rehabilitation of these different types of eye movements and visual reflexes is often the key to resolving your neurological issues and getting you back to living your best life. Visual integration therapy is thus a crucial component of your treatment program.
How Does Visual Integration Therapy Help You?
There are several different classes of eye movements that are critical for me to be able to make sense of the visual environment. The foundation of all of these is gaze stabilization, the ability to hold the eyes still on a target.
Beyond this, there are four basic types of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit movements, vergence movements, and vestibulo-ocular movements. Saccades are fast jumps from target to target. I use saccades to create our visual map of the world and to localize objects within the visual surround. Smooth pursuits are ocular following reflexes, and involve being able to lock the eyes on a moving target.
Vergence movements involve moving the eyes independent of each other, involving convergence where the eyes move towards each other, and divergence where they move apart. These are critical to maintain focus on targets as they move towards and away from us. Vestibulo-ocular movements involve reflexively moving the eyes in response to a head movement. These are critical for maintaining gaze stabilization, and allow us to have clear vision while the head is moved and as we move through the world.
It is extremely common for these different classes of eye movements to become impaired in a wide range of neurological conditions. Rehabilitation of these eye movements and their integration with other neurological reflexes can be a critical step in restoring neurological function in these conditions. We find impaired eye movements in a host of neurological conditions.
What To Expect
During Visual Integration Therapy, you can expect to participate in targeted eye movement exercises that help retrain how your brain and eyes work together to interpret your surroundings. These activities may include tracking moving objects, shifting your gaze between different points, and stabilizing your vision while your head moves—all designed to improve your spatial awareness and visual coordination. Over time, this therapy supports better balance, focus, and interaction with your environment, helping you regain confidence and ease in daily life.
Pioneering Functional Neurology Care Across Europe for Over 35 Years.
Kim has been helping people recover from complicated neurological conditions, such as Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries, Dizziness and Vertigo, Dysautonomia, and Movement Disorders through innovative diagnostics and customized brain-based solutions for 35 years.
