Dr. Stephey welcomes Celeste Palmer to the Move Look & Listen Podcast. Celeste is a brain injury survivor and the founder of Bridging the Gap, a traumatic brain injury support group & resource network. With roughly 1.2 million optic nerve neurons per eye, there's almost no who escaping the negative visual consequences when suffering from a brain injury. Dr. Stephey and Celeste discuss how memory, gait, balance, risk-of-fall injury, motion sickness, headache, dizziness, speech perception, visual motor integration, etc. are affected in traumatic brain injuries. Bridging the Gap - Connecting Tramatic Brain Injury Survivors: http://tbibridge.org Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. 208 West Badillo St Covina, CA 91723 Phone: 626-332-4510 Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStephey Website Videos: http://bit.ly/DrStepheyOptometryVideos The Move Look & Listen Podcast is brought to you in part, by Audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30-day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/InBound If interested in producing a podcast of your own, like the Move Look & Listen Podcast, contact Tim Edwards at tim@InBoundPodcasting.com or visit www.InBoundPodcasting.com Transcription Below: Tim Edwards: The Move Look & Listen Podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey is brought to you by audible. Get a free audio book download and a 30 day free trial audible membership at audibletrial.com/inbound. You'll find over 180,000 titles to choose from, including several books mentioned here in the podcast. Support the Move Look & Listen Podcast by visiting audibletrial.com/inbound. Dr. Stephey: If our two eyes are not working together well as a fast synchronized team, our internal mapquest continues to be off. It's consistently inconsistent with our ability to judge time and space. Those that don't feel well-grounded, those that have some measure of anxiety, oftentimes it starts in the visual system. If you can't move, look and listen in a fast, accurate, effortless, sustainable, age appropriate, meaningful way, you're in a world of hurt. There's a whole world in vision and how it affects brain function that no one's ever shared with you. 20/20 is perceived as a holy grail of going to the eye doctor. Well, I'm here to change that paradigm. Tim Edwards: This is episode number nine of the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr Doug Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network. And today Dr. Stephy, this is exciting. We have our very first guest ever in this podcast and I have to say you've chosen a really great one to join us today. Dr. Stephey: That's fantastic. I'm glad Celeste is here. Tim Edwards: We're welcoming Celeste Palmer, the founder of Bridging the Gap and a traumatic brain injury survivor. And we're going to talk about what you do at your practice, Dr. Stephey in helping people that have suffered a traumatic brain injury. One of which of course is our very own guest, Celeste Palmer. Celeste, thank you for joining us today. Celeste Palmer: Oh, well thank you guys. I'm really happy to be here. Tim Edwards: Now, Celeste, if you wouldn't mind before we get started, I want to introduce our audience to you and let them know your story. You and I had a wonderful conversation a couple of weeks ago and you explained what happened to you and how you have bounced back with flying colors certainly so and to influence the lives of many of those who are benefiting from Bridging the Gap. So please start with your story. Celeste, if you wouldn't mind. Celeste Palmer: Well, as I've been told my story is that I was in a near fatal car accident on May 1st 2000. And from that it was a retrograde and an antegrade amnesia. So the first 50 years of my life, I don't know, I've been told about them kind of scheduling. And the main thing is that I decided to start over. And to make a new Celeste and in the process of creating that, I've had the wonderful opportunity to meet and know a whole community of people and experiences that have turned out to be just amazing. From Peter Drucker at the Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University to numerous hospitals, rehab hospitals, organizations like the university and, and other schools. And so, that brings us forward to last summer. I believe it was when I met Dr. Stephey and through another one of our participants in a support group and said, "oh my gosh, this is timely." Because I had had vision therapy years ago after the accident because yes, it isn't about being 20/20. It's about being able to see and get your balance back and be able to walk without walking into things. And so it was absolutely amazing to have Kim introduce us and be able to then have someone to talk to and not only talk to, but to have him listen. Tim Edwards: Have him listen, yeah. That's one of the things that certainly separates Dr. Stephey from, from the rest, for sure. Celeste, you said something that really struck me when you said, from what I've been told, I've suffered a traumatic brain injury. So you're...
