Becoming a Patient

Complete a Pre Evaluation Form

As a first step, and to initiate your evaluation to determine if you are a good candidate, you will be asked to fill-in our Restore Vision Checklist  to provide us with a brief history of your disease, your diagnosis, and eyesight complaints. The questionnaires is designed to allow us to understand to which extent visual disturbances affect your everyday activities and help us identify if there are no potential contraindications to the treatment.

Medical documentation Assessment (2-10 working days)

If contraindications are absent, you will be asked to send us a copy of your medical records via email or fax.

Your medical documentation should include the following information:

• History of the disease, indicating its beginning, obtained examinations and treatment results
• Findings and reports on how your disease proceeded, what methods of therapeutic or surgical treatment were used
• The results of the latest ophthalmological examinations (within the last 4-6 months), including a detailed eye exam with details about intraocular pressure of both eyes
• The results of obtained visual fields examinations (if possible together with their dynamic).
• The results of CT or MRI, EEG, evoked potentials

Treatment Eligibility Confirmation

If there are no contraindications and we believe our will benefit from the treatment, we will send you the following information to review:

1. The Medical Contract
2. The invitation letter - which is necessary when you apply for a visa.
3. Possible treatment dates - including a recommendation to receive treatment as soon as possible if your disease (medical condition) requires this.
   
   

At your convenience, we will schedule a time to discuss the prognosis in more details and answer any questions you may have.

Booking your treatment

Once you have selected your treatment dates, you will be asked for a deposit to secure the dates.

Dates can only be secured upon receipt of the deposit.

What constitutes a treatment:

• Therapeutical sessions are performed for 2 weeks from Monday to Friday. Duration each session is 60-90 minutes.
  • Although there are no specific restrictions connected to eye strain (you can use a computer and read), you should not spend more than 3 hours a day in front of a computer during your stay in Berlin.
  • Some patients feel tired after the therapy, but a few hours of rest allow them to overcome it completely.
• After the treatment course you are thoroughly examined and your results are discussed.
• We provide you with a Findings Report which includes the results of your ophthalmological examination.
• We also develop a Personalized Care Plan with possible strategies for the upcoming months to suit your specific needs.

Book your 2-week trip to Berlin

Once your dates are confirmed and the deposit is paid, you can start planning and booking your trip.

The therapy normally requires a stay in Berlin of 14 days, generally beginning on a Monday.

Please note that:

• Our clinic does not have accommodation available for our patients.
• We recommend the Holiday Inn Berlin which is a 3-min walk (200 m or 0.1 Mile) away from our clinic.
• We can organize transportation from the Berlin airports to the hotel or to our clinic on request, but it would be at your own expense.

Pre-treatment Quality of Life survey

Two weeks prior to your booked treatment, you will receive an appointment confirmation. You will also receive a request to complete a Quality of Life survey.

Patient in Berlin - two weeks therapy

Once therapy is completed you receive your discharge letter together with all obtained examinations  and our recommendations

Back at home

After the course of the treatment it is very important to follow at home our suggested regime for 2-4 weeks.

Post-therapy tests

12-14 weeks after the treatment we will ask you to complete and send through a set of Vision Field tests, and provide a description of your subjective vision after the therapy.

Treatment Results

Our physicians will review the above tests results along with your assessment of your Quality of Life change.

If there is a Vision Field improvement, meaning the survey has shown positive development and patient informs of positive subjective vision - this means you are a responder to the Restore Vision Approach. In this case, it is recommended to receive a second treatment 6-8-10 months (individual) after first treatment.

• To book your next treatment, you can repeat the steps from point 3
• Up to three-four courses of treatment can be made.