Viewpoint: Adapting to new practises

I took over an independent practice in 1982 and began my training in behavioural optometry in 1995, developing in-office vision therapy roughly three years later after extensive training with a US-based mentor Dr Wayne Pharr. During the past five years, public acceptance of vision therapy has taken off and we get increasing numbers of referrals from occupational therapists, educational psychologists and even local neurologists specialising in mild traumatic brain injuries as well as local schools. Due to our international reputation and website, we get referrals and patients from all over the world and many personal recommendations from our patients.

The week that Covid-19 restrictions first started to be recommended by various countries around the world, I was due to give a two-day presentation about behavioural optometry and syntonic phototherapy in Poland, which I thankfully cancelled just before travel restrictions were imposed.