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@avmcbellar @user_che214927 I agree it would be helpful if some of the exercises that worked were shared and how often they need to be practiced. Please?

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Hi @bustrbrwn22 as for myself I did eye exercises daily for 4 months before deciding to stop. I used an app to do the exercise I planned for that day 3 times throughout the day. In the app there were 5 eye exercises total which I rotated to meet my daily schedule. Every month I increased the number of times I performed each exercise by one. I started at 3 times daily and slowly worked my way up to 6 times. I did notice an improvement where my bad eye tried to slide to match the other image. It never got there because I still had double vision. The slow reaction time increased my motion sickness. I also felt the imbalance more in my ears. I stopped so my eyes would settle in time for the surgery since my vision was not correcting. The image of the bad eye kept shifting up and down and not settling. A month after stopping the eye exercises, my ears had less pain and the reaction time of the bad eye has decreased significantly. The bad eye image has almost stopped shifting. My motion sickness has gotten better.
I don’t have an exercise program for other improvements but basically the more you practice the better your outcome. In essence you are retraining your brain to use different pathways to get to the same results. The idea is to bypass the nervous system to use healthy nerves. I use my opposite limbs to complete tasks I used to do in hopes those limbs will get stronger and perform better. I never purchased the books Barry has suggested. Instead, I found basic information online to be able to follow neuroplasticity.
I will say the website I once mentioned for VR therapy(VRxTherapy.com) has contacted me. They asked if I have a pair of VR goggles. The answer is yes. I am hoping for the next step to perform exercises(neuroplasticity) the website recommends for improving my neuropathy. Time and patience is needed to be successful with neuroplasticity. You can put your mind to it, lol. Good luck. Toni