The pachymetry, i.e. the measurement of the thickness of the cornea, is always quick and completely painless, and is essential in the case of glaucoma. It can provide essential information for the ophthalmologist.
An optometrist of Italian origin, Fabrizio Bonci is the only optometrist in the country currently working in the neurological field of ophthalmology, and is highly respected in his profession. A highly skilled specialist, he trained in Rome, then worked in the UK before starting in Hungary in 2011. In Budapest, he only examines patients at Rapidus Optik, where he sees patients every Friday.
Outstanding professionalism
Fabrizio Bonci has previously worked with patients suffering from double vision and involuntary eye movements. He later obtained his Certificate in Vestibular Rehabilitation at the Institute for the Assessment and Treatment of Dizziness and Balance Disorders. His main areas of specialisation include paediatric and geriatric optometry, neuro-optometry, including neuro-optometric rehabilitation, treatment of low vision, visual therapy and correction of binocular vision disorders. He has contributed his expertise to a number of international publications and has also helped to write books on optometry.
What problems can we ask him about?
“I deal with a lot of people who have suffered some kind of brain injury. It could be surgical, traumatic brain injury, brain tumour, or even stroke. My vocation is to make their lives better and easier through neuro-optometric rehabilitation or visual therapy.” – the optometrist filled us in. In the cases mentioned above, there may be double vision, paralysis or strabismus, for example.
He also loves working with children, whether they have neurological problems or are perfectly healthy. She usually corrects problems such as strabismus, hidden strabismus, dilated strabismus, or other problems that cause learning difficulties, with the help of glasses, often special prismatic glasses, or with visual therapy or neuro-optometric rehabilitation.
What exactly is visual therapy?
The treatment, originally known as vision therapy, is a therapeutic method that helps teach the brain how to control the eyes. This improves visual skills, which play an important role in reading, learning and concentration. It also helps to improve attention.
The completely individual and personalised treatment programme allows the patient to process information received visually more easily and accurately. It can be used to treat problems such as blurred vision, strabismus, double vision, problems with eye cooperation, movement or coherence, focusing difficulties and eye fatigue. It also helps to overcome problems with spatial perception and vision and hand-eye coordination, as well as problems with visual perception and processing.
About neuro-optometric rehabilitation
As mentioned above, there can be a variety of causes of visual dysfunction, such as physical disability, brain injury, neurological damage, etc. Neuro-optometric therapy is a rehabilitation method that helps to overcome perceptual, sensory and motor problems. Examples include strabismus, double vision, binocular dysfunction, but also eye motor nerve dysfunction.
Vestibular training for balance disorders
This option can help to alleviate discomfort caused by balance disorders, such as dizziness, imbalance or loss of balance. If you have this type of problem, you may often feel unsteady when looking or moving because your eyes are less or not able to fixate. As with other therapies, training is individualised, based on the evaluation of tests.
Whatever neurotic – and, of course, other – optometric disorder is plaguing our lives, Fabrizio Bonci is waiting for us at Rapidus every Friday with extensive expertise and personalised solutions. An enthusiastic and direct optometrist, he can help people of all ages to go about their daily lives with a better quality of life. In addition to his native Italian, he can of course be contacted in English and Hungarian.
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A CFF test to check the conduction of the optic nerve can detect several problems. These include optic nerve damage, which in most cases is caused by glaucoma.
A fundus examination is part of every eye examination. It is used to assess the condition of not only the eyeball, but all its protective organs – the eye muscles, the eye socket and the eyelid.
At Rapidus Ophthalmology, intraocular pressure is measured using a non-contact tonometer. During this completely painless examination, the eyes are not touched by the instrument, so no anaesthetic is needed.
In some cases, a more complex vision test than the traditional tests is needed, this is the functional eye test. Comprehensive mapping, which can even be referred to as a special education examination, highlights the links between learning disabilities and vision
Vision therapy provides solutions to vision problems caused by neurological disorders. Depending on the results previously assessed and tested, it provides a complex treatment taking into account the abnormalities and symptoms.