Re: OTTm - Liberman on color light therapy for eyes and brain

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Dr. Liberman's book is interesting and mentions treating learning

disorders with " syntonic therapy. " I can't find much current on

" syntonics " , but here is one article.

One of the other things this therapy may accomplish is help with

emotional disorders/trauma. Dr. Liberman refers to patients who,

during light therapy, remembered old traumas/abuse, etc. they had

buried, and somehow this therapy helps let that safely out. (Works

better than psychotherapy.)

Common Symptoms Treated by Syntonic Phototherapy.

Visual

* Blurred or fluctuating vision

* Eye turn or lazy eye

* Double vision

* Eye strain or fatigue

* Reduced peripheral vision

* Glare or light sensitivity

* Night vision problems

Visually Related

* Headaches

* Poor concentration or attention span

* Reading problems

* Reduced academic performance

* Poor coordination or balance

* Reduced athletic performance

* Driving or depth perception problems

* Job performance or sustained near task difficulties

History of Stress Trauma

* Physical

* Mental

* Emotional

* Illness: chronic or severe

* Allergies: chronic or environmental

SYNTONIC PHOTOTHERAPY may be today's most advanced clinical science in

light therapy. Since the 1920's it has been used effectively by

optometrists to treat patients who have inefficient visual function.

Since eighty percent of learning occurs by way of the eyes,

inefficient visual function can adversely affect all aspects of one's

life, including academic achievement, athletic performance and

proficiency at work.

Light therapy is also commanding respect in the medical community as

its benefits are investigated in the treatment of jet lag, PMS, sleep

disorders and conditions related to the body's daily rhythms. Exposure

to certain colors has also been found to affect behavior, mood and

physiological functions.

Patients are diagnosed by symptoms, vision evaluation, visual/motor

performance and peripheral vision sensitivity. They may have blurred

vision, a crossed or lazy eye, double vision or poor academic

achievement. If appropriate, they are treated by way of their eyes

with selected visible light seen as colors.

Not all retinal (light-sensitive) nerves in the eyes serve vision.

Some connect the retina directly to non-visual brain centers such as

the hypothalamus and pineal gland. These centers influence electrical,

chemical and hormonal balances which affect all body functions

including vision. Years of clinical application and research have

demonstrated that certain selected light frequencies (colors), applied

by way of the eyes to these centers, can produce beneficial results in

the body.

Controlled clinical studies by Dr. Kaplan and Dr.

Liberman proved that the usual result of this relatively short-term

treatment is improvement in visual skills, peripheral vision, memory,

behavior, mood, general performance and academic achievement.

They confirmed that large numbers of children with learning problems

have a reduction in the sensitivity of their peripheral vision. During

and after phototherapy they demonstrated improvement of peripheral

vision and visual skills. Control subjects who did not receive therapy

showed no improvement in their peripheral vision, symptoms or performance.

In 1985 psychiatry discovered light therapy. In medical clinics

throughout this country and around the world, many individuals are now

receiving exposures to bright light as treatment for Seasonal

Affective Disorder (SAD).

Syntonics can be used as the primary treatment or to support other

therapies to aid in the remediation of strabismus, amblyopia,

accommodative/convergence problems, asthenopia, ametropia, visual

attention deficit, vision-related learning and behavior problems, and

visual field constrictions associated with visual stress, brain

injury, degenerative ocular disorders, and emotional trauma.

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