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About Neuro-Eye Therapy (NeET)

Neuro-Eye Therapy (NeET) uses a medical device, the Vision Rehabilitation Program, designed to help those who have suffered partial blindness as a result of brain injury, most often following a stroke.

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

The basic principles behind NeET are similar to those of physiotherapy and speech-therapy following stroke. If muscles or speech are affected following brain injury, patients are asked to repeat a pattern of limb movements or speech sounds daily. The procedure results in an improvement in the function of the surviving nerve network.

Visual abilities may be returned in a damaged brain in 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, the brain may be able to be trained to use surviving functioning nerves within the damaged areas. Neuro-Eye Therapy is designed to encourage the use of remaining nerve pathways to compensate for the damaged areas.