Vision changes in children can be helped by CranioSacral Therapy.  Vision changes can occur after trauma whether the cause is physical such as a head injury or emotional such as witnessing a traumatic event.

“Disruptions in visual processing are characteristic of students who have been traumatized.  For many who have witnessed or been involved in the horror of a violent attack or an accident, the wide eyed look of terror remains as if frozen in time.  …..  Often traumatized students are labelled learning disabled or dyslexic because of the lack of ability to track smoothly with both eyes.”   from Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes by Peter A. Levine and Maggie Kline.

Vision changes can also occur at times of anxiety in children’s lives.  Meir Schneider notes in his book The Handbook of Self Healing that a common period for vision change occurs around the third grade when schoolwork becomes harder and frustrating for some but also boring for others.  The next period of  vision change occurs during adolescence which is a time of increased stress and lack of clarity surrounding their future.

Eyebody:  The Art of Integrating Eye, Brain and Body by Peter Grunwald takes an indepth look at how vision and each part of the visual system relates to emotions as well as the physical body.

All three books offer ways to work with the visual system to improve eyesight.  Bodywork such as CranioSacral Therapy combined with eye exercises as outlined in these books can produce significant improvement in eyesight.  By reducing stress levels and relaxing muscle tone and tightness in the whole body  as well as freeing restrictions of cranial bones promotes an improved, relaxed use of the visual system.

Check out this site for information on a book to help children’s vision :

http://www.janetgoodrichmethod.com/vision-improvement-products.html

Before increasing your child’s or your own eyeglass prescription consider the above resources.

Copyright 2009  Brenda Rosenberg CST