From Twist to Clarity: Managing Astigmatism Through the Body

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Dr. Sam Berne has been in private practice in New Mexico for over 40 years and where he works with patients to improve their vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University, Doctor of Optometry from Pennsylvania College, and did his postdoctoral work at the Gesell Institute in collaboration with Yale University. He has been awarded The Special Awards for Service from the Behavioral Optometrists in Mexico for his innovative and holistic work with children.

His protocols take a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to health and wellness. He understands and treats the body as one integrated system rather than a collection of independent organs in order to identify and address the root causes of disease. His whole health protocols improve vision and wellness by healing the mind-body-spirit through nutritional protocols, vision therapy, and self-care techniques. This views each person as genetically and biochemically unique and enables the individual to make lifelong improvements to their well-being.

Sam Berne (00:01.454)

Hey everyone, welcome to my walk today. So we’re going to post this on my podcast. This is a question I got from a mom recently. She has a 15 year old son who’s been diagnosed with astigmatism and he was getting some occupational therapy and the therapist noticed that he had a body twist and when he had his lenses off there was less twist in the body. So she’s asking

What should they do in terms of a lens prescription? And how do we work with this situation? Well, astigmatism can be either in the cornea. It’s an irregular shape of the front of the eye or it can also be muscular where the six extraocular muscles are changing the shape of the eye and it creates kind of an asymmetry or a warping in the eye. Now in my own body work that I’ve developed

I have found that I measure somebody’s astigmatism at the beginning of my exam and then I do my body work to unwind the the body’s twist my functional vision integrative body method and then I measure the astigmatism after the body work and in a high percentage of cases. It’s much much less which tells me that

Any prescription in the eye is also in the body and that when we wear prescription in the eye, it can lock down the body. So in this particular case, my suggestion would be to perhaps work with the eye doctor to say, hey, look, can we either get a prescription with no astigmatism that will wear during the occupational therapy program or get a reduced astigmatism because clearly

If you get full correction on astigmatism, it only reinforces the twists not only in the eye, but in the body.

Sam Berne (02:07.79)

So there are many exercises physical therapy exercises that can be done to also reduce the twist in the eye. One of my favorite ones is doing the animal eye chart. This is a exercise I developed from my first book creating your personal vision. So it’s basically an eye tracking exercise, but you’re doing each eye separately and you’re tracing the diagram.

of the animal eye chart and you’re stretching your eye in all areas of gaze.

Another exercise I love to reduce astigmatism is the palm hum exercise. That’s the one where you rub your hands together. Once you cut them over your eyes with your eyes closed and you take about eight hums on the exhale. This will improve the muscular circulation. It relaxes the tissue around the eyes and it’s a wonderful way to reset the visual system.

And again, if you can get your eye doctor to prescribe either reduce the stigmatism or no astigmatism, then you’re not reinforcing what was measured during the exam because during the exam, it’s usually a pretty stressful moment. You have to choose a lens, which is clear one or two and you get that lens and it basically locks you down. It’s usually too strong for you.

So in this particular case, what I’ve told the occupational therapist to do is at least during the therapy time, take the lenses off, do the unwinding and then see if you can get a reduced prescription or Noah stigmatism. And this is one of the ways that you can begin to reduce the warping or twisting in the eyes and the body.

Sam Berne (04:10.711)

So that’s my show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in until next time. Take care.