Visual Tracking Exercises - 7 Different Patterns, 3 Different Speeds
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Published 2024-06-19
Visual tracking, also known as eye tracking, is the ability to move your eyes quickly and smoothly in any direction, whether reading or following a moving object. It's a fine motor skill that's important for many daily activities, including reading, writing, drawing, playing, and sports.
When visual tracking is abnormal, it can lead to difficulties with normal activities and even dizziness, a type of visual vertigo.
For example, an ice hockey player may have trouble tracking where the puck is. A student may constantly lose his place while reading a book.
Visual tracking exercises can help restore normal eye tracking.
These exercises should first be performed at slow speech (0:05) with nose pointed straight at the center of the screen. The eyes should try to smoothly follow the moving circle. Once the circle is able to be easily tracked smoothly (no blurring, dizziness, losing track of the circle), the speed can be increased to medium (10:12), and then fast (15:25).
A variety of patterns are shown including zig-zag vertical, star, figure 8, circle, zig-zag horizontal, horizontal bouncing, and vertical bouncing.
To further increase the difficulty of these exercises, try placing the head in different positions (other than straight ahead):
• Nose pointed at right edge of screen
• Nose pointed at left edge of screen
• Nose pointed at top edge of screen
• Nose pointed at bottom edge of screen
• Moving head up and down while doing the exercises
• Moving head side to side while doing the exercises
You can increase the difficulty with saccade eye exercises which utilizes a circle that briefly appears on the screen in random locations: www.checkhearing.org/saccadesTest.php
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All Comments (4)
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You can increase the difficulty with saccade eye exercises which utilizes a circle that briefly appears on the screen in random locations: www.checkhearing.org/saccadesTest.php Slow speed starts at (0:05). Medium speed starts at (10:12). Fast speed starts at (15:25). To further increase the difficulty of these exercises, try placing the head in different positions (other than straight ahead): • Nose pointed at right edge of screen • Nose pointed at left edge of screen • Nose pointed at top edge of screen • Nose pointed at bottom edge of screen • Moving head up and down while doing the exercises • Moving head side to side while doing the exercises
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is it ok to do these exercises with my reading glasses?
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Thanks hopefully will help with my motion sickness and visual vertigo which I suffer at the moment How often shall I do these exercises?
