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Who Benefits? - Learning - Lazy Eye - Stress - Rehab - Sports
All About Vision Therapy
Some visual conditions cannot be treated adequately with just glasses,
contact lenses and/or patching, and are best resolved through a program
of Vision Therapy.
What is Vision Therapy?
Vision Therapy is an individualized, supervised, treatment program designed
to correct visual-motor and/or perceptual-cognitive deficiencies. Vision
Therapy sessions include procedures designed to enhance the brain's ability
to control:
- eye alignment,
- eye teaming,
- eye focusing abilities,
- eye movements, and/or
- visual processing.
Visual-motor skills and endurance are developed through the use of specialized
computer and optical devices, including therapeutic lenses, prisms, and
filters. During the final stages of therapy, the patient's newly acquired
visual skills are reinforced and made automatic through repetition and by
integration with motor and cognitive skills.
Who Benefits from Vision Therapy?
Children and adults with visual challenges, such as:
- Learning-related Vision Problems
Vision Therapy can help children and adults who lack the necessary visual
skills for effective reading, writing, and learning (i.e., eye movement
and focusing skills, convergence, eye-hand activity, visual memory skills,
etc.).
- Poor Binocular Coordination
Vision Therapy helps individuals develop normal coordination and teamwork
of the two eyes (binocular vision). When the two eyes fail to work together
as an effective team, performance in many areas can suffer (reading,
sports, depth perception, eye contact, etc.).
- Strabismus and Amblyopia
Vision Therapy programs offer much higher cure rates for turned eyes
and/or lazy eye when compared to eye surgery, glasses, and/or patching,
without therapy. The earlier the patient receives Vision Therapy the
better, however, our office has successfully treated patients well past
21 years of age.
- Stress-induced Visual Difficulties
21st century lifestyles demand more from our vision than ever before.
Children and adults in our technological society constantly use their
near vision at work and at home. Environmental stresses on the visual
system (including excessive computer use or close work) can induce eyestrain,
headaches, and/or visual difficulties which can be effectively treated
with corrective lenses and/or Vision Therapy.
- Find out more about Vision Therapy and the elimination of blurry
vision, headaches, and eyestrain at Success
with Symptoms.
- Visual Rehabilitation for Special Populations
Vision can be compromised as a result of neurological disorders or trauma
to the nervous system (such as, head injuries, traumatic brain injuries,
stroke, whiplash, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis,
etc.). Vision Therapy can effectively treat the visual consequences
of brain trauma (including double vision).
- Sports Vision Improvement
Strong visual skills are critical to sports success. Not much happens
in sports until your eyes instruct your hands and body as to what to
do! Vision Therapy can successfully improve eye-hand coordination, depth
perception, visual reaction time, peripheral awareness, eye teaming,
focusing, tracking, and visualization skills (to mention just a few).
Vision Therapy can be the answer to many visual problems! Don't hesitate
to contact our office with your questions. To read definitions of Vision
Therapy by outside sources, visit children-special-needs.org.
You are also invited to look through a National Catalog of hundreds of Vision Therapy Success Stories.
There's more to healthy vision than 20/20 eyesight!
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