Prismatics: Lenses that help you have a better posture

Pain, imbalance and learning difficulties are the “main groups of symptoms of proprioceptive origin.” These symptoms “should be assessed by a specialist, who will do personalised treatment and make the necessary referral.”

For Shamir, these symptoms, together with “imbalance, lack of mobility and pain in the limbs and back on a regular basis,” lead to the recommendation of “active prismatic lenses.” These are spectacle lenses which “improve postural correction.”

Day to day, an incorrect posture can “cause various health problems! But postural correction can be achieved through the “use of specific ophthalmic lenses.”

Postural Deficiency Syndrome (PDS), despite not being well-known, is a “dysregulation of the proprioceptive system, caused by frequent postural errors.”

Treatment of this Syndrome involves the “use of ophthalmic lenses with active prisms. The lenses, also used by Shamir, with active prisms, are developed and worked on “in order to act at brain level,” and aim to “correct the proprioceptive system, correcting the spatial perception deficit and forcing the proprioceptive system to normalise its functioning, using the visual pathway to reach the brain.”

These lenses are not “necessarily graduated as they do not aim to correct vision.”

Proprioception was first described in 1906 by physiologist Sherrington as a sixth sense, which defines the state of the body with its relationship with space. In the last few years, we have seen the involvement of multidisciplinary teams from different areas (physiologists, physiotherapists, dentists, ophthalmologists, optometrists and opticians.)

According to one of the “country’s leading specialist in ophthalmoposturology, the renowned ophthalmologist Orlando Alves da Silva, who has studied and worked in this field on a daily basis, proprioception is the sense that informs the brain about the state of our body.”

Since 1977, Orlando Alves da Silva had already treated “more than 30 thousand cases of dyslexia, vertigens and muscular pains, having developed an exclusive treatment that involves, besides the active prismatic lenses, a postural reprogramming and a positional correction.”