Video Transcript:
Binocular vision dysfunction is your two eyes working together. Well, binocular dysfunction means your two eyes aren't working together like they should or could be ideally.
Your brain is tricky because it always tries to work with what it has. Your symptoms show up in all kinds of different ways. So you might suffer from migraines, you might suffer from headaches, you might suffer from anxiety, you might get exhausted early in the day. Your body's never going to tell you, “Hey, this is your eyes.”
It's just going to try to work with what it has. Now, one of the things that your eyes do that you might not realize that they do, and they're doing this every moment that your eyes are open, is if you think about it, chances are you have two functional eyes and you only see one of this video. What's happening is your eyes are taking in two images and splicing them on top of each other to create the perception of one image.
If those images are spliced a lot, it takes more effort to join them and process them. And that's kind of what binocular vision dysfunction is. Your eyes are putting a lot of energy into splicing these images and they don't have much energy left over. So binocular vision dysfunction a lot of times people will not recognize it as such. They'll see it as something else. If you're lucky enough to go to a doctor who specializes in binocular vision, then they might be able to detect, “Hey, these images are pretty far apart. Do we want to do something to splice them together?”
If you're having migraines, if you're having headaches, if you're having kind of exhaustion and different forms of exhaustion and things that result in exhaustion from when your eyes are open - when you're trying to do things - there's a good chance that you're dedicating too much of your brain's resources to your eyes working together. So I would always say it's a helpful thing to make sure that you can maximize the way that your eyes are working together, and then see what else happens.
Because it's definitely not something that we in the optical industry, in the optometry industry, in the ophthalmology industry, really spend a lot of time considering the implications of; except for a few special optometrists who specialize in binocular vision.
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