Neuro-Eye Therapy (NeET) uses a medical device, the vision rehabilitation program, to help those who have vision loss as a result of brain injury, most often following a stroke.

This type of vision loss often takes the form of a blind field, where blindness is the same in both eyes and therefore one eye cannot compensate for the other.

The basic principles behind NeET are similar to those of physiotherapy and speech-therapy following stroke or TBI. If muscles or speech are affected following brain injury, patients are asked to repeat a pattern of limb movement or speech sounds daily. The procedure results in improvement in the function of the surviving nerve network. Neuro-Eye Therapy works to stimulate, daily, the vision that has been affected by the brain damage. To read more about the type of improvements reported please click here.

Visual abilities may be improved in a damaged brain via two ways

• There are many parallel routes for nerves to take visual information to different brain areas, so if one route is damaged then processing by other routes can be encouraged.
• Alternatively, it may be possible to train the brain to use surviving functioning nerves within the damaged areas. NeET is designed to encourage the use of remaining pathways to compensate for the damaged areas.