📚 PRI Convention 2025 📚

Always learning, Always growing!

Dr. Cao had an amazing opportunity to attend the Postural Restoration Institute (PRI) conference. Special thanks to Dan Houglum, MSPT, ATC/L, PRC for his valuable expertise. We appreciate your insights to help our patients more effectively together and to strengthen the connection between physical therapy and neuro-optometry.

*** “Our ‘postural print’, of upright forward reflexive predominant behavior is reflected by what we are doing with our feet, hands, eyes and chests to stay “balanced”, when moving to upright, becoming upright or leaving upright.”

*** “Humans need optimal vestibular function for optical visual function. Finding an optometrist that prescribes for the former enhances the latter. Synchronous visual input, sequencing, executive function, attentive automaticity, and emotional regulation are all implicit timing events associated with visuo-vestibular-ambulatory function”

** “Ambient awareness of peripheral binocular exteroceptive input for interoceptive ‘central peripheral’ organization. Binocular divergence allows one to center the eyes beyond where one “knows” the object one is looking at, really is; and thus enhances stabilization and controlled upright performance.”

*** “As we get older the more we rely on visual demand for visual processing from our feet for navigation.”

*** “People with a lazy eye or strabismus have difficulty with dissimilar quality of images. People with ‘lazy foot’, or a foot that is rotated in or out compared to the other dominant supportive foot have difficulty with dissimilar quality of ground/floor alignments.”

Thankful to Alpine Physical Therapy for their amazing hospitality.

Pleasure meeting chiropractor Dr. Haig Basmadjian, DC and look forward to working together.

Grateful to physical therapist, Dr. Loc Rao, DPT for collaborating in the care of so many patients.

We are so proud to celebrate one of our amazing vision therapy graduates 🎉

She states, “I love vision therapy! I had to do vision therapy because I had to have 2 eye surgeries done in my left eye when I was little. I did not want another surgery, so my mom told me I could do vision therapy. I think vision therapy is wonderful!” 💜

Even though she has now graduated, she still comes for follow ups with our neuro-optometrist, Dr. Judy Cao, and enjoys coming back to Vizen for her visits. For her, vision therapy wasn’t just a treatment plan, it was a positive, memorable part of her life.

Her story is such a wonderful reminder that vision therapy (neuro-optometric rehabilitation) can offer life-changing results without additional strabismus surgery. The therapy activites were customized to her visual needs and helped to rebuild the neural connections from brain to eyes to allow for her eyes to align and work together as a team again. Through her hard work, the support of her family, and the guidance of her care team, she has shown what’s possible when we give the eyes and brain the chance to work together in new ways.

Congratulations again! We are so proud of you! 🌟💐