When a person suffers a musculoskeletal injury such as an ACL rupture, it is also a neuromuscular injury. The injury causes a change in how the brain generates motion around that joint, and the information it relies on to prevent subsequent injury. The patient becomes more dependent on vision and less on other important proprioceptive stimuli. The recurrence rate of musculoskeletal injuries is high because while muscle strength and range of motion may have been restored, the interrupted neuromuscular pathway has not. It is not uncommon in some pathologies (e.g., chronic ankle instability) for practitioners to address sensory reweighting issues in their patients.  

The Senaptec Sensory Station evaluation can show the visual and sensory abilities of an injured person compared to normative data for the person’s specific population. Senaptec’s database of athletes across sport, position, and competition level shows the relative status of the injured athlete. The exercise modules on the Senaptec Sensory Station provides the injured athlete with sensory integration training. 

The Senaptec Strobe eyewear line of products is an ideal tool for restoring neuromuscular pathways. By limiting visual information while performing an activity that requires balance control, the brain is forced to reweight sensory strategies by focusing more on proprioception for balance and position. Instead of assigning just eyes-open or eyes-closed tasks, the Senaptec Strobe eyewear provides an adjustable spectrum between sight and no sight which also allows the clinician to add a secondary task.

The majority of brain function is dedicated to visual processing and those suffering from a concussion will overwhelmingly experience ocular, visual, balance, and/or cognitive problems. These difficulties may delay recovery if not adequately addressed. Common concussion symptoms affect eye focusing, eye movements, blurred or double vision, light sensitivity, concentration, and balance. 

For many who suffer a traumatic brain injury across its spectrum, there is a functional miscommunication between the peripheral and central processing systems. These are two different processing centers in the brain. If there is misalignment, a host of problems can result, such as nausea, lack of coordination, poor spatial awareness, etc. Creating a re-alignment of the peripheral and central systems is important for many concussion/TBI patients. 

The Senaptec Sensory Station provides several therapy modules that are designed to exercise the central/peripheral vision systems. These include Eye-Hand Coordination, Go/No-Go, Perception Span, Dynamic Vision, Split Attention, and Multiple Object Tracking. 

The Senaptec Strobe Elite eyewear can be used to address central/peripheral misalignment by adjusting the ratio of information allowed through the peripheral versus central regions of the vision. To start, the eyewear can be used with full bi-nasal occlusion. This approach can help the individual regain capability in the peripheral vision, which research shows are a foundational step in the healing process.

The Senaptec App allows you to leverage self-care home rehabilitation and expanding tele-health opportunities by putting the power of our innovative technologies in your patients’ homes. The customized sensory exercise plan allows your patient to get real-time performance feedback on specific rehabilitation areas you assign. Via a proctor portal, the app utilizes our secure cloud technology to manage the data and allows you to check on your patients’ activity and modify their training plans as their ability improves.

Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States. Approximately 2/3 of stroke survivors experience vision impairment. These vision impairments are often a lasting degraded condition with functional consequences. Stroke survivors also experience impaired peripheral proprioception, which can lead to over-dependence on visual information. These losses can result in postural instability and balance loss that adversely affects stroke survivor independence and health outcomes.

The Senaptec Sensory Station evaluation can measure visual, cognitive, and visuomotor skills that are impacted by a stroke. The sensory exercise modules on the Sensory Station address functions such as visual neglect, visual-motor integration, visual field skills, oculomotor control, and the coordination of peripheral/central vision.

The Senaptec Strobe Elite eyewear has the lenses segmented into quadrants, with the center intersection aligned with the pupil at primary gaze. Each quadrant’s opacity and clear state can be independently customized to the occluding spatial and temporal patterns desired. By customizing this pattern, a practitioner selects which visual pathway(s) to the brain information is allowed to travel, thereby activating certain parts of the visual cortex and not others. For example, a patient with hemianopsia could utilize the Senaptec Strobe Elite with lateral or medial sides occluded. The Senaptec Strobe Elite can also induce sensory re-weighting by limiting your complete vision - both central and peripheral vision. Limiting peripheral vision limits spatial reference to the visual world, which causes the wearer to be more dependent on somatosensory information to maintain postural control. 

The Senaptec App allows you to leverage self-care home rehabilitation and expanding telehealth opportunities by putting the power of our innovative technologies in your patients’ homes. The customized sensory exercise plan allows your patient to get real-time performance feedback on specific rehabilitation areas you assign. Via a proctor portal, the app utilizes our secure cloud technology to manage the data and allows you to check on your patients’ activity and modify their training plans as their ability improves.

Visual impairment is common in Parkinson’s disease and deficits impact mobility, balance and ultimately increase fall risk. Visual deficits range from a decline in basic visual function and oculomotor control to more complex vision issues. All deficits limit independence and reduce the quality of life. Recognizing visual disorders and implementing tailored interventions is essential to enhancing visual function, balance, and preventing falls in Parkinson’s disease patients.

The Senaptec Sensory Station evaluation provides a way to efficiently measure visual and visuomotor skills that could be impacted by Parkinson’s disease. The sensory exercise modules are designed to engage visual memory, oculomotor control, eye-hand coordination, and other neuromotor pathways affected by the disease.

The Senaptec Strobe Elite eyewear can be used to induce sensory reweighting by reducing visual pathways, such as central and peripheral vision. Limiting peripheral vision limits spatial reference to the visual world, which causes the wearer to be more dependent on somatosensory information to maintain postural control.

Sensory overload is a common problem experienced by those on the autistic spectrum. Their brains get overloaded by sensory input and can respond in a variety of ways, such as isolating themselves from the environment or erratic motion, or even violence. Teaching a person on the autistic spectrum to handle the sensory input is fundamental for all other learning and growth. When someone on the autistic spectrum is calm in their sensory environment, they can better interact and learn. 

The Senaptec Sensory Station evaluation - Those on the autistic spectrum often rely too much on their peripheral vision to neglect their central vision. Several modules on the Sensory Station can be customized to redirect and help rebalance attention to central vision by providing fun, interactive activities. Additionally, the Sensory Station can help with sound/vision sensory input, handling multiple simultaneous visual inputs, and coordinating muscle movement with visual input.

The Senaptec Strobe Elite eyewear can help with the peripheral/central reweighting by adjusting what areas of the visual pathway get information. The Senaptec Strobe Elite eyewear can also create a much more stimulating environment for those who need this type of therapy.

The Senaptec Sensory Station evaluation can measure visual, cognitive, and visuomotor skills that could be impacted by visual conditions addressed in vision therapy. The ability to baseline visual skills before therapy begins provides a tool to show improvements gained from vision therapy. In addition to the baseline 10 fundamental vision skills, the modules on the Sensory Station address functions such as visual neglect, visual-motor integration, visual field skills, oculomotor control, and the coordination of peripheral/central vision.   

The Senaptec Strobe eyewear can be controlled with a mobile app that can also be used to customize the settings of the Senaptec Strobes. This gives you the freedom to create modes for the particular needs and/or the condition of the client. Instead of the traditional patching, you can set the Strobes to vary how much vision the dominant and non-dominant eyes receive from the world. The Senaptec Strobe can flicker in a left/right alternating pattern, which some practitioners use to address amblyopia.  

The Senaptec App allows you to leverage self-care home rehabilitation and expanding telehealth opportunities by putting the power of our innovative technologies in your patients’ homes. The customized sensory exercise plan allows your patient to get real-time performance feedback on specific rehabilitation areas you assign. Via a proctor portal, the app utilizes our secure cloud technology to manage the data and allows you to check on your patients’ activity and modify their training plans as their ability improves.

Before you make a single move in competition or daily function, every sense is actively engaged and preparing the mind and body for action. Vision accounts for approximately 80% of all sensory information received and processed by the brain and are the primary source of information captured in the sensory organization of the body’s balance and sensorimotor systems. The information then goes through perceptual, decision, and response organization processes before the movement even occurs. Eye doctors know this mechanism well and are in the discipline to provide functional and applicable tools and protocols to help the youth athlete to the professional athlete in reaching their potential.   

Eye doctors were the pioneers of providing performance vision care services for athletes, and they have an inventive history from using homemade tools made out of slide projectors to adapting therapy tools for sports performance. With this solid foundation, Senaptec is bringing innovative tools based on large-scale data analytics to sports vision experts. 

The Senaptec Sensory Station is a science based, science-based, standardized evaluation system with secure cloud-based analytics and a user-friendly interface that provides you with an evaluation of the athlete’s sensory performance and analysis in under 30 minutes. After evaluation, you can create a customized Sensory Station training program that will help your athlete client to improve 14 fundamental sensory skills for human performance.

The Senaptec Strobe eyewear line of products turns any physical training drill into a sensory training drill. The Strobes allows training the visual aspect of the sport in what the athlete is already doing. From dribbling a basketball, hitting or kicking a ball, the athlete can now, with your direction, integrate sensory training without adding practice time to their daily regimen.

The Senaptec App extends your reach by providing additional remote access. This allows the athlete to continue their Sensory Station training at home or on the road. The customized training plan allows the athlete to work on the visual skills that are the most important to his or her sport, or the specific areas that the Sensory Station evaluation showed to be the opportunities for improvement. Via proctor portal, the app utilizes our secure cloud technology to manage data and to provide immediate comparative results, allowing you to fully manage your patients’ program and progress.