Episodes

  • 02 Common Eye Problems

    02 Common Eye Problems
    Jun 29 2018
    Have questions about an eye condition or vision problem?  Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. explains the differences between hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism and presbyopia. You will also learn how many of these conditions can be treated with lenses, prisms and vision therapy. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. 208 West Badillo St. Covina, CA 91723 Phone: 626-332-4510 Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStepheyWebsite 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: Welcome to episode two of the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network and a client of Dr. Stephey's over the past couple of years. In our last episode, we got a chance to meet Dr. Stephey and get to know him personally and professionally and to learn a little bit more about some of Dr. Stephey's unconventional methods that he practices at his optometry practice. And when we say unconventional methods, we mean when you visit Dr. Stephey, you're going to experience a session unlike you've had with any other optometrists. I can almost guarantee that. Can you back that guarantee up with me Dr. Stephey? I think that's pretty true.  Dr. Stephey: Tim, I think that is true. I do practice all the kinds of regular optometry that most people can eventually know. But I do things that go back in optometry to the 1930s and 1940s. So what's interesting about a lot of this stuff is it's not really new. It's just that the profession in expanding its scope has moved away from some of the tenants that has made this kind of optometry so unique and yet at times in the field of neuro rehabilitation, especially with traumatic brain injury and concussions, the rehab community understands the value of this kind of optometry better than regular optometry itself in some cases, and certainly that's true that the neuro rehab community understands this better than the educational community or the medical community as it relates to how this kind of optometry practice can affect the quality of somebody's life. Whether they get migraines or motion sickness or headaches or have a history of dyslexia or a learning disability or ADHD or autism. This kind of optometry cuts across a lot of different disciplines and a lot of different diagnoses.  Tim Edwards: And as you mentioned in our last episode, we are going to dive deep into each of those elements that you just described and how through vision therapy and through some of the modalities that you use at your practice can be relieved, hopefully, maybe and sometimes eliminated.  Dr. Stephey: I think that's true.  Tim Edwards: And today what we're going to do, we're going to bring it down to the elementary school level. For people like me, if you don't mind Dr. Stephey, and we're going to talk about common eye problems. So I think it would be important for those that are binge listening to this podcast, much like people do on Netflix, right? You find a show you like and you'll watch every episode, the same type of consumer habits occur with podcast listening, so let's give some basic common eye issues that you would deal with that we are all dealing with.  Dr. Stephey: So the most common things that people know are nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and reading glasses.  Tim Edwards: That's pretty much the scope, no pun intended, of my knowledge or something like this.  Dr. Stephey: And the idea that seeing 20/20 is the holy grail of going to the eye doctor. I'm here to suggest that seeing 20/20 is a small, albeit an important piece of the puzzle, but it's just a tiny piece of the puzzle. So for example, the expression 20/20 conventionally means that you can read a letter just slightly smaller than nine millimeters at 20 feet. That's it.  Tim Edwards: That's where the 20 comes in.  Dr. Stephey: That's where 20/20 comes in. That's all it means. It doesn't say anything about the way you use your two eyes together, whether you see fast, how you integrate vision and auditory or vision and motor or visual and processing speed or vision and attention or vision and movement skills. It just means you can read a tiny letter at 20 feet.  Tim Edwards: And why did they choose that? Whomever created this chart, right? And the distance. Why at 20 feet.  Dr. Stephey: Honestly I have no idea.  Tim Edwards: Because that's the size of the room when they put this whole thing together and they say well..  Dr. Stephey: There's probably some logic behind why they chose the 20 feet, but I honestly do..If I ever learned that in the past, I don't remember it.  Tim Edwards: So that it's not that relevant anyway. It's just a, a ...
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    38 mins
  • 03 Seeing 20/20 Is Not Enough

    03 Seeing 20/20 Is Not Enough
    Jun 29 2018
    In this episode you will learn why seeing 20/20 is simply not enough. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. will explain how the three circle Venn diagram of vision will most likely show that your last eye exam may have come up short to enable you to move, look, and listen through your life with ease. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. 208 West Badillo St. Covina, CA 91723 Phone: 626-332-4510 Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStepheyWebsite 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 three of the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr. Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network. Happy to have Dr. Stephey with us here in our roster of shows as we move forward in the Move Look & Listen podcast. Dr. Stephey, we've talked about common eye problems in our last episode and now you alluded to this topic in our last episode and this is I think something that's quite interesting and I think might raise an eyebrow or two of somebody listening on the other side of the speakers. 20/20 is not enough. You've said that from the first day that I've met you and I've known you a couple of years now. 20/20 is not enough. `We've been told our whole lives. Oh you've got perfect vision. You could see 20/20. Not the case apparently.  Dr. Stephey: That is not the case. That's right. 20/20 is presented as a holy grail of going to the optometrist and it is. I'm here to tell you it is a tiny piece of the puzzle. It's an important piece because clarity of vision is a big deal, right? But it's only a piece. So for example, picture three circle venn diagram.  Tim Edwards: Okay.  Dr. Stephey: And one circle is can you see 20/20. One circle is related to eye health. Make sure you don't have dry eye or glaucoma or macular degeneration or bleeding in the eye if you're diabetic or any untold number of eye health issues. That's circle two. Circle one and circle two is where most eye doctors practice. They do have a place for sure and they do have value, but there's the third circle that oftentimes is missing. And within that third circle there's pieces like, eye taming, eye focusing, eye tracking. There's components related to visual-auditory integration, visual-cognitive skills, visual-spatial skills, visual attention, visual processing speed, magnocellular vision or motion processing, visual vestibular or vision and inner ear integration issues.  Dr. Stephey: There's a lot of stuff going on in that third circle. And my experience over the years is that if you don't do vision therapy in your practice, you tend to ignore that third circle. I went to a lunch meeting a number of years ago at a local credit union. They did lunch meetings for their employees. They invited me to come as a speaker and I talked about this specific topic. And I was talking about eye taming, eye focusing and eye tracking. And that if you didn't have those skills, you might get sleepy or tired when you read, you might get headaches when you read, you might get motion sickness when you're riding in the car. You might have to be the driver because if you don't, you get dizzy or motion sick that you're ridiculously clumsy. Can't play sports that include catching a ball or throwing a ball accurately, and one of one of the attendees, they were sitting in the back. They raise their hand and they said, hey, so what kind of questions do I need to tell my eye doctor the next time I have an eye exam? And I said, if you have to tell your doctor what kind of questions he should be asking you, you're going to the wrong eye doctor.  Tim Edwards: Absolutely. Well, ...
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    33 mins
  • 04 Why Seeing Fast is Important

    04 Why Seeing Fast is Important
    Jun 30 2018
    What the heck is a magnocellular neuron you say? Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. will tell us why is it important to attention, movement, reading, and understanding where we are in space. Furthermore, the magnocellular visual pathway also plays a role in staying out of being in a perpetual state of fight or flight. This visual pathway will be explained in easy to understand detail and will be differentiated from the parvocellular or what visual pathway. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. 208 West Badillo St.  Covina, CA 91723 Phone: 626-332-4510 Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStepheyWebsite 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 the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards, the founder of the Inbound Podcasting Network, and a patient of Dr. Doug Stephey. He located in Covina, California. Episode four today, Dr. Stephey. We're talking about seeing fast. Never heard that phrase ever. And I've said that a lot in the last few episodes. I've never heard that before. Going to visit various optometrists throughout the last 25 years or so when I first started wearing glasses. It seems like everything that you bring up, every time we get together, there's something new and enlightening regarding our vision and our brain and how our eyes work together. Seeing fast. Tell us what that means.  Dr. Stephey: Yeah. What the heck? Seeing fast. What's that all about? Well, certainly come into the optometrist. 20/20 is perceived as the holy grail of going to the eye doctor, right? If you could walk out seeing 20/20, it's all good.  Dr. Stephey: Well, I'm here to change that paradigm. Fundamentally, the world generally is made up of prey, animals and predators. And prey animals have eyes on either side of their head, like horses and rabbits and predators have eyes closely spaced on their face.  Tim Edwards: Like us.  Dr. Stephey: Like us. And the reason that's true when you really stop and think about it. Is prey animals have to have almost a 360 degree field of view because they want to know when a predator is coming to eat them and they need to be able to see fast themselves in order to give them enough time.. Dr. Stephey: To flee the scene. Right? Because prey animals generally don't have great fighting skills. Their abilities to survive another day is that they have camouflage and they're fast, short term sprinters, and then there's lack of movement. Like the proverbial deer in headlights.  Tim Edwards: So they can either hide or escape quickly.  Dr. Stephey: That's it.  Tim Edwards: To survive.  Dr. Stephey: So predators have eyes closely spaced on our face because we need to be able to see in 3D. Now inherently to that we have to use our two eyes together as a well integrated team. And we also have to be able to see fast. And we have to see a large volume of space. Because if you and I were out walking down a wooded trail and we're looking at something straight ahead of us at 12:00 and the deer that hurt us, or saw us coming was off at 10:00 and it's now holding still because it doesn't want to enter our visual radar. So you and I are looking at 12:00.. Dr. Stephey: There's a movement in our periphery. If we're able to see fast, one, we should be able to perceive the movement and two, we should be able to localize a general area space of where that movement is coming from. So that when we turn and look and use eye focusing, eye tracking, eye taming skills to localize where we think we perceive that movement well then we should kick in our pattern detecting abilities so we can break ...
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    50 mins
  • 05 What is Vision Therapy?

    05 What is Vision Therapy?
    Jun 30 2018
    "If you want to understand the whole child you must understand their visual system and if you want to understand their visual system you must understand the whole child.” - Famed Yale pediatrician, Dr. Arnold Lucius Gesell Vision therapy is a brain-based program of "eye exercises" designed to change the way one’s neural networks control any variety of visual skills which are assessed and remediated. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S provides information regarding the various vision therapy methods utilized in his practice. 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 and 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 www.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 www.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 the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network and a patient of Dr. Stephey's and we appreciate you tuning into the podcast today. We know when you hear the, the term or the word or the profession, optometrist, you think I'm going to go get some glasses, get some contacts and be on my way. And that's traditionally what happens when you go see an optometrist. Well, if you listen to some of our previous episodes, you know that I have a video production marketing company and I have interviewed dozens of optometrists here in the southern California area, but there was this one day that I produced a video for Dr. Doug Stephey in Covina, California. That changed the way I thought of optometrists, or at least this one in particular. Because Dr. Stephey was the first optometrist that told me about vision therapy, not just how I could see 20/20.  Tim Edwards: Dr. Stephey we have touched on vision therapy in previous episodes, and you talked a little bit about what it entails. But let's just dedicate an entire episode to vision therapy. Because future podcasts will depend upon the information we present today.  Dr. Stephey: Tim, I think it's a wonderful idea and there is a lot of information and misinformation about vision therapy and what it is and what it does. So one of the first myths that I want to talk about is when somebody says, well, I heard vision therapy doesn't work. And I say it doesn't work to do what? And then they say, what do you mean? And I say, what do you mean? Dr. Stephey: You're the one that said vision therapy doesn't work. I'm asking you it doesn't work to do what? And then they pause again and then I say jokingly, well, does vision therapy cure world hunger? No. Vision therapy doesn't work to do that? And then we have a chuckle about that because that seems so preposterous, right?  Tim Edwards: Right.  Dr. Stephey: But it opens the discussion to talk about what vision therapy does and doesn't do. For example, there are components within medicine and education that put out the argument. There is no proof that vision therapy cures dyslexia. Therefore vision therapy doesn't work. Well that's a heck of a statement and conclusion. I don't really know of any optometrist doing vision therapy that would make the claim that vision therapy cures dyslexia.  Tim Edwards: That vision therapy or even glasses cures anything.  Dr. Stephey: Well, that's my point. So when the false premise is written by others that want to denigrate vision therapy, that vision therapy, there's no evidence that vision therapy cures dyslexia.  Dr. Stephey: Therefore vision therapy doesn't work and make a global blanket statement, right? That's the classic. You set up a strong man's argument and then argue the false premise. It's just wrong and it's ...
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    36 mins
  • 06 Special Education and Vision - Part 01

    06 Special Education and Vision - Part 01
    Jun 30 2018
    An advocate for children diagnosed with dyslexia, specific learning disability, ADHD, autism, conduct disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, and any other students in special education, Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S provides valuable information regarding Child Find regulations and why students with IEP's and 504 plans are not being comprehensively assessed. Strategies will be provided on how to get what your child needs to move, look, and listen through their life with ease. 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 and 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 www.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 www.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: Hi and thanks for joining us for episode number six of the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey. Hopefully you have found our previous episodes to be educational and insightful and eye opening. No pun intended, but today we're going to talk a little bit more about how vision plays a part in your child's special education needs.  Dr. Stephey: Well, Tim, I'm glad to have this episode being recorded because it's important information and I think the listeners, not only will it resonate with them, but I'm hopeful that it will act as a springboard and they can use this information and share with others. Because even if the listeners of this podcast don't have a child of their own, who would benefit from this information, I'm confident that everyone is going to know someone who does have a child who would benefit from this information. And the reason I know that to be true is because I've been in practice now for 30 years and from the first week that I was in practice, I decided that we were going to have to provide vision therapy services because the need is too great.  Dr. Stephey: For example, it's estimated that 10 to 20 percent of the population at large have some sort of vision related problem. Meaning their two eyes don't work together very well. As an integrated team. That's probably the most common problem, so when you think about that from the population at large, 10 to 20 percent, that's one out of every five people or one out of every 10 people that you're going to meet on the street who has a problem with the way their eyes work together. And it has nothing to do with seeing 20/20. That's tremendous. Now, if we preselect the populations, those that have a migraine history of a brain injury, history of dyslexia, learning disorder, reading problem, specific learning disability, carry a diagnosis of autism or ADHD or inattentive ADD or executive dysfunction. The prevalence of those populations, having an associated or causative vision problem associated with those diagnoses, I can confidently tell you it's at least 80 to 90 to 95 percent.  Tim Edwards: So this is a no brainer for you to incorporate this into your practice.  Dr. Stephey: This not only is it not a no brainer, I don't know how you can't practice this way. And I've said for years, I don't mind if you don't practice this way. But you can't pretend like these patients don't exist in your practice. More than 20 years ago, probably almost 30 years ago, I was pretty involved with our state association. So I would travel the state, meet different doctors at different venues and invariably we'd have a discussion. I would have a discussion and say, hey, remember when we were in school, like how common are these vision related problems? And invariably the doctors would say, oh, 10 to 20 percent. Isn't that right? I'm like, yeah, that's about right. So if you're doing 10 exams a ...
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    25 mins
  • 07 Autism and Vision

    07 Autism and Vision
    Jun 30 2018
    >80-90% of kids on the spectrum can't move, look, and listen in a fast, accurate, effortless, sustainable-appropriate, and meaningful way. This results in high fear, high anxiety, high distractibility, and will leave your child in a perpetual state of fight or flight or your child will simply adapt and learn how to not pay attention. In this episode, Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S provides information regarding children on the Autistic spectrum and how to effectively assess the visual system and provide solutions for them to move, look, and listen through their life with greater ease. 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 and 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 www.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 www.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: Hello and welcome to episode number seven of the Move Look & Listen pocast with Dr. Doug Stephey. I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network and a patient of Dr. Doug Stephey, who is an optometrist practicing in the southern California area. Now Dr. Stephey. Today's topic, I believe is going to be a gold nugget found by parents of children who happened to land somewhere on the autistic spectrum. Never have I heard how autism and vision are connected, but we're going to discuss that here today.  Dr. Stephey: We're talking about autism and vision because about 80 percent of our brain's neurons are wrapped up in the processing of visual information. Remember, there's about 3 million sensory neurons that feed information to the brain, vision, auditory, taste, touch and smell. And of that 3 million fibers, there's about 30,000 auditory fibers per ear and roughly 1.2 million per eye. A staggering difference, and there's instances clinically.  Dr. Stephey: What I've seen this happen in the office where vision has the capacity to change how you hear, vision has the capacity to change balance and gait and posture. Vision has the capacity to change the way your body feels, your feet on the floor. It changes a term called proprioception or the awareness of your body in space. I've had patients, kids and adults alike where I'll tell them, I'm going to take my index finger and lightly rub it along your forearm. And I want you to tell me how it feels. And if you're a touch sensitive in this manner, it just about freaks you out. It's like walking into a spiderweb when it gives you the heebie jeebies. Who hasn't done that?  Tim Edwards: No. But it is fun to watch people do it.  Dr. Stephey: It sends a shiver through your whole body.  Tim Edwards: It's creepy. Yes.  Dr. Stephey: So people in this manner don't like light touch. And so I'll lightly rub their forearm and I can, sometimes I can see them visually get the shutters. And or they'll get a screwed up look on their face where it's like, oh man, I really don't like that. And then I stop and I say, how does it feel? And they're like, well, I didn't like it, number one. And if they don't spontaneously tell me, I always then ask, is it still itchy? And they're like, yeah, well then itch then and make it go away. So then they'll itch their forearm and I'll say, okay, well you know what, let's put on this pair of glasses with color in prism in them or color or prism or whatever. Whatever the combination is. And I'll say, let's try it again. And more times than not I'll do that when they put the glasses on and they're like, oh, just feels like you're touching me now.  Dr. Stephey: And how about when I stopped? They're like, well, you just stopped. It's not itchy anymore. No, it didn't feel like anything...
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    34 mins
  • 08 Nutrition and Vision

    08 Nutrition and Vision
    Jun 30 2018
    Did you know that both good and bad fats play a huge role in the development of your visual system and brain? Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S discusses the power fish oil supplements have in changing the course of inflammation in our body and brain. The arachidonic (pro-inflammatory) and eicosapentaenoic (anti-inflammatory) acid levels will be discussed: how to measure them and how to reverse this ratio when elevated. 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 and 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 www.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 www.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 eight of the Move Look and Listen, Podcast with Dr Doug. Stephey. You know, we've talked about a lot of things in this podcast, Dr. Stephey and today we're going to tie in vision and nutrition. So for those that maybe have just stumbled across Apple Podcasts or whatever platform they're listening to their podcast, they're probably wondering, what in the heck do these two have in common? And you've alluded to them several times. You've more than alluded, you've discussed them in detail in several previous episodes. But today we're going into fish oil, right? How fish oil, in particular, or omega-3's can help  your vision and other aspects of your being.  Dr. Stephey: Yeah, that's right Tim. So let's launch off into this. omega-3's, they are a big deal. There's one theory about human development that goes back, what, 20, 30, 40,000 or so years.   There's one theory that says that when humans started eating the seafood diet, the size of our brain exploded in size. Arguably that's the theory of human development. There's two theories that I've heard about why we have the brains that we do today. One is the amount of mega three fatty acids that we used to eat and the other was man's ability to use tools. Because using tools requires a concept called motor planning and motor sequencing, which ties to that millisecond timing clock that we were talking about last episode. But motor planning and sequencing, it is a platform for speech and language and eye movement control and auditory processing and cognitive abilities. All starting through motor planning and motor sequencing. So omega-3's, as people may or may not know, is the long chain fatty acid associated with fish oil and there's a ratio called the AA to EPA ratio, arachidonic acid to eicosapentaenoic acid levels. And the phenomenal thing about this ratio is that very few physicians actually seem to know or talk about it. And I tell you that because I was in to see my family physician a few weeks ago who didn't seem to know a lot about the AA/EPA ratio .  Dr. Stephey: I have a couple of brain injury recovery patients in my practice who have gone back and asked their neuro rehab doctors about this ratio. They didn't seem to know anything about it. Another patient of mine had a stroke last summer. She's in her late forties. She went back and talked to her cardiologist about this ratio. He didn't know anything about it but at least was interested to read and I talked to a friend of mine who's an ER physician back in Michigan who didn't seem to know a lot about it. And I'm stunned.  Tim Edwards: Flabbergasted. I think maybe because like you said, it's a big deal. You talk about brain development and overall health and yet these physicians know nothing about it.  Dr. Stephey: I remember about probably going back 15, 20 years when I first started to read about omega-3 fatty acid. There was a handful of pregnant women at the time in my practice and I said, ...
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  • 09 Traumatic Brain Injuries and Visual Consequences

    09 Traumatic Brain Injuries and Visual Consequences
    Jul 16 2018
    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...
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