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health
That’
s exactly how Brandon
Klein feels. The 25-year-old West
Bloomfield resident believes the
trouble started as early as age 5. “I
remember feeling anx-
ious and worried all of
the time,” he said.
“In my teens, the
problems became more
debilitating. I suffered
chronic tension head-
aches and had panic
attacks when I drove, especially on
the freeway.”
Klein said he was always anxious
but couldn’
t pinpoint a reason why,
and often clenched his teeth and
tensed his shoulders.
He sought help from a psycholo-
gist and often charted driving routes
to avoid highways. Still, though, the
problems lingered until he found
his way to Vision Specialists. Today,
wearing his aligning lenses, Klein is
not only an avid reader, but he also
reads with more confidence and
notices his eyes no longer get tired
from reading. And he doesn’
t feel
any anxiety when he gets behind the
wheel of his car. He even noticed his
hearing improved.
“My only regret is not associating
my problems with my vision earlier,”
said Klein, a meditation teacher who
also works with The Well, a local
Jewish outreach program. “It would
have saved me so much grief.”
BVD, however, is an equal oppor-
tunity condition in that it also affects
children.
Avi Dworkin, 10, of Oak Park start-
ed having trouble in school more than
a year ago. Specifically, he couldn’
t
read the board and
struggled during math
lessons to distinguish
between numbers. His
grandmother noted a
clumsy gait when they
would walk together.
Children suffering
from BVD also expe-
rience a range of symptoms that can
include motion sickness, tilting their
heads to one side, light sensitivity and
skipping lines when reading.
“We’
d been to his pediatrician, but
she couldn’
t give us an answer. I’
d
been a patient of Dr. Feinberg’
s and
thought she might be able to help
Avi,” said Cindy, Avi’
s grandmother.
Cindy’
s suspicions were correct
— Avi did have BVD and “almost
immediately after he started wear-
ing his new lenses, he became like a
new child, eager to get to school. His
grades improved and his penmanship
is better.” ■
Avi Dworkin
National Breast Cancer Study
Seeks Volunteers
Beaumont Health researchers are
seeking women with breast can-
cer for a national research study.
Investigators hope to learn if weight
loss decreases the likelihood of a
recurrence of breast cancer. The
research is known as the BWEL
study, or Breast Cancer Weight Loss
Study.
“Previous studies have found that
women who are overweight or obese
when their breast cancer is diagnosed
have a greater risk of their breast can-
cer recurring, as compared to women
who were thinner when their cancer
was found,” explained Dr. George
Howard, principal investigator for
Beaumont Health.
This study is conducted by the
Alliance for Clinical Trials in
Oncology, a national clinical research
group supported by the National
Cancer Institute. The Alliance is
made up of cancer doctors, health
professionals and laboratory
researchers whose goal is to devel-
op better treatments for cancer, to
prevent cancer, to reduce side effects
from cancer and to improve the qual-
ity of life of cancer patients.
The nationwide study will enroll
approximately 3,100 women into one
of two groups. A computer will ran-
domly assign study volunteers into
a group. Group 1 participants will
receive a health education program
designed to give women more infor-
mation about their breast cancer and
their overall health. Group 2 partic-
ipants will get the health education
program and a two-year weight loss
program. The program is designed
to help women lose about 10 percent
of their starting weight by decreasing
calories they eat and increasing their
exercise.
The research will be conducted
at Beaumont hospitals in Dearborn,
Farmington Hills, Grosse Pointe,
Royal Oak and Troy.
For details, contact Beaumont’
s
Cancer Clinical Trials Office at (248)
551-7695. For study details, visit
ClinicalTrials.gov condition “breast
cancer” and search term “BWEL.” ■
Brandon Klein
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