Motion Sickness / Motion Sensitivity

It’s not unusual for Dr. Stephey to see patients who report motion sickness when they are a passenger in the car, but not when they are driving. Most patients somehow think this is a control issue not a vision problem. However, with the specialized testing Dr. Stephey conducts it can be easily demonstrated how the vision induced motion sensitivity is reduced or limited when rubbing one’s fingertips together or when swinging a leg over the edge of the exam chair or when stimming / flapping as frequently done with those on the autism spectrum. When the brain doesn’t use the two eyes together as a well integrated team they essentially go out of synchronous orbit with each other and induce any number of symptoms with motion sickness being one of them.