Vision Therapy for Visual Snow
If you’ve been experiencing persistent visual disturbances that look like static or “television snow”, you may be dealing with a condition known as visual snow. Five Dock Optometry offers vision therapy as a supportive treatment to help alleviate the discomfort associated with visual snow, enhancing your quality of life.
What Is Visual Snow?
Visual snow is a neurological condition that affects how you perceive visual information. Individuals with visual snow see a continuous layer of tiny, flickering dots across their field of vision—similar to the static on a television screen.
This condition can be incredibly frustrating and can impact various aspects of life, from reading to navigating your environment.
Common symptoms of visual snow include:
- Static or flickering dots across the visual field
- Light sensitivity
- Afterimages or seeing trails behind moving objects
- Difficulty seeing in low light
- Visual clutter
Visual snow is not caused by problems with the eyes themselves but is linked to how the brain processes visual information. This means that traditional glasses or contact lenses cannot address the issue.
How Vision Therapy Can Help
Although there is currently no cure for visual snow, our vision therapy can help individuals manage symptoms by improving the connection between the eyes and the brain.
Vision therapy at our practice involves a series of personalised exercises aimed at enhancing the visual system's efficiency.
Our approach focuses on:
- Improving visual processing to help reduce the perception of static.
- Enhancing eye coordination to minimise the impact of visual clutter.
- Addressing light sensitivity through targeted activities and tools.
The goal of our programme is to retrain the visual system to better process and filter visual information, which can help reduce the severity of symptoms and improve overall comfort.
What to Expect
At Five Dock Optometry, we begin with a thorough evaluation of your visual system to understand the extent of your symptoms. Our optometrists will then design a tailored programme to address your unique needs.
Therapy sessions are conducted in-office, with additional exercises to be completed at home. We use unique tools, such as lenses and digital devices, to help retrain your visual pathways and improve how your brain processes visual input.
While visual snow can be challenging to live with, many patients find that vision therapy provides relief, helping them regain control over their visual environment.
Get Support for Visual Snow in Five Dock
If visual snow is affecting your life, vision therapy may be able to help you manage your symptoms and improve your quality of life.
To learn more about how vision therapy can help with visual snow, contact us and let us help you find a way forward toward better visual comfort and clarity.