20+healthy volunteers
First study
It compared the SiXDEVICE programme with a traditional visual training programme. After four weeks, responses in the SiXDEVICE group were faster and more accurate, with less use of attentional resources.
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performance in the static balance test
Tired eyes, stiff neck and flagging concentration often they share a single cause
often they share a single cause
Your eyes don't work on their own. When your attention stays fixed for hours, your body compensates: your neck, jaw and breathing stiffen. You can chase each discomfort with a remedy, or understand how you work and manage it yourself.
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omissions in the Stroop attention task
+0%
perceived reading fluency
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perceived fatigue when reading a passage
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reported mental fatigue
How many of these signs do you recognise?
These items come from the questionnaire we use in our assessments. They are different ways in which the same compensation shows itself, and they are not usually linked to one another. Do you recognise more than two?
To protect concentration, we narrow our attention
Everything else is left in the background. That is why we forget to drink and don't notice when someone walks into the room.
Broad attentionNarrowed attention
These are strategies we use to finish what we are doing. They only become a problem when they go on for years and the system no longer gets the chance to find its way back on its own.
Who can help you understand
Marco Grassi, optometrist, third generation of a family that has worked in optics for over a century. Since 1997 he has designed and made instruments for functional vision re-education, distributed in Europe and the United States and used in university laboratories in Italy, the rest of Europe, the United States and Hong Kong.
Find out more about meWhat would you like to improve?
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Attention and reading
If reading the same line several times has become normal
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Long days at the screen
If the tiredness doesn't go away when you switch off
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Energy and recovery
If the same discomforts keep coming back
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Sport, dance, music and singing
If your movements don't flow
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Balance and movement in space
If you move more cautiously than you would like
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Neurorehabilitation programmes
Support that works alongside specialists
Learn moreWe remove the obstacle to activate
awareness
Most approaches start from the idea that a weak function needs to be trained, with exercises to repeat. Armonia Visiva starts from a different idea: when a system is free to reorganise, it does so on its own, because it already has everything it needs.
Our work is to remove the obstacle. The device we use, SiXDEVICE, is an optical device with centesimal prismatic lenses. It does not correct your sight and does not magnify: it modulates the quality of the visual information reaching the system, so that the system can reorganise on its own. You wear it during your normal daily activities, whatever they are: studying, reading, working at the computer, training.
The goal is not to make you feel better while you wear it. It is to make you aware of how you work: which situations demand the most from you, which signals appear first, what changes when the system is free.
Discover SiXDEVICE
How we can help
Some changes are reported more often than others at follow-up assessments. They do not all arrive at once or in the same order: which ones come first depends on where your body is working hardest.
Tension that eases
Freer neck and jaw, less tense shoulders, fuller breathing
Attention that lasts longer
More fluent reading, less need to reread the same line
More confident movement
Balance and orientation in space, even in crowded places
Energy that comes back
Less tiredness at the end of the day, more restful sleep
Steadier sight
Visual quality that holds up as the hours go by, even at the screen
How to get started
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We listen and observe
The assessment does not measure how many lines you can read on the chart. It observes how your system organises itself: freedom of movement, your relationship with space, how much effort it takes you to keep your attention.
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We set goals together
We start from your situation and what you want to improve, with an individual timeline and approach, not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
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We meet again and adjust
The method includes follow-up assessments to check the changes and tailor the programme, up to the maintenance phase.
What the research says
Since 2019 the method has been studied together with the International Research Center for Cognitive Applied Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, coordinated by Professor Michela Balconi.
Read the studies15young adults with specific learning disorders
Second study · 4 weeks
At the end of the four weeks, a reduction in mental fatigue reported by participants was observed, along with an improvement in attention and balance tests.
Ten minutes to see how you're doing
The questionnaire we use in our assessments is available online. It is not a test and does not give a diagnosis: it shows you which of your discomforts belong to the same system. At the end you receive personalised feedback.
Why are my eyes tired even though my sight is fine?
Because visual fatigue does not depend on sharpness, but on how much work the system does to maintain it. An eye test measures how sharply you see while standing still. It does not measure how much energy you use to keep that sharpness for eight hours while you move, read and think.
What do headaches and a stiff neck have to do with sight?
It is not your gaze that stays fixed, but your attention. When it stays focused on a narrow area for a long time, the system works harder to process information, and your neck, jaw and breathing stiffen around that position. It is the processing that tires you: the discomfort appears where the body has compensated, not where the problem started.
Can I use it if I wear glasses or contact lenses?
Yes. The device works on the quality of visual information, not on sharpness, so it works with or without correction. It does not replace your glasses and does not change your prescription.
Is it a medical device? Is it a therapy?
SiXDEVICE is a Class I medical device registered with the Italian Ministry of Health, but the programme is not a therapy. It does not diagnose, does not treat medical conditions and does not replace any healthcare pathway. It is a consultancy programme that aims to make each person independent in managing their own efficiency.
Why is it useful in sport too?
It makes it easier to relate to space and improves response times, precision and the execution of the movements involved in dancing, playing musical instruments and managing diaphragmatic freedom in singing.
Is it compatible with a multidisciplinary approach?
It supports functional or structural work under way or planned with other professionals, such as combined use with bite splints, orthodontic appliances, palatal expanders, sensory activators and insoles.
Let's talk
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