Success stories

This is a small sampling of vision therapy success stories from our office. To protect patient privacy, patient names and other identifying details have been changed and stock images have been used instead of real photographs.

Janet

Age 8

Diagnosis: Left Exotropia

Refraction: -4.25-2.00 X 007

-3.25-2.00 X 075

Janet has exotropia (a form of strabismus where the eye turns out) was scheduled for strabismus surgery. However, her parents wanted to first try any non invasive options. After a course of vision therapy her ophthalmologist's consultation letter stated that “Janet's exo deviation has been well controlled with the exercise program. At this point I do not advise any surgical intervention.”

Radha

Age 12

Diagnosis: myopia progression

Refraction: -6.50 -1.25 X 005

-7.00 -1.25 X 160

Radha’s main concern was her drastically increasing myopia. She was progressing at a rate of -1.50 diopters a year. After a course of vision therapy her spectacles prescription has now been STABLE for the past 2 years.

James

Age 11

Diagnosis: generalized binocular dysfunction

Refraction: +0.50-0.50 X 095

+0.50-0.50 X 085

James is an extremely bright young boy who came into the clinic saying “my eyes get frustrated when I read”. This was a great observation since most children with generalized binocular dysfunction can not tell themselves that there is something wrong. After a course of vision therapy, James has shocked his teacher by now reading ABOVE grade level. Go to our binocular vision section to learn more about this kind of condition.

Hector

Age 9

Diagnosis: refractive amblyope
OD

Refraction: +5.25

+2.00

Hector had amblyopia in one eye. He presented with a best corrected visual acuity of 20/60 OD 20/20 OS. After a course of vision therapy his refraction went down to +1.25 OD and plano OS. His uncorrected visual acuity is now 20/20 OD and 20/20 OS.

Susan Barry

The most famous vision therapy success story is neuroscientist Dr. Susan Barry, who, through vision therapy, was able to see in three dimensions for the first time in her life at age 47. Her experience had such a profound effect on her personally and intellectually, that she wrote a book, Fixing My Gaze, about it and was the subject of an article in the New Yorker by Oliver Sacks.

Read hundreds of vision therapy success stories at visiontherapy.org by following this link: http://www.visiontherapystories.org/

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Convergence Insufficiency

TEDx

Quotable

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""of the three treatment modalities, only vision therapy/orthoptics was effective in achieving normal clinical values for both the near point of convergence and positive fusional vergence."

Scheiman et al. A Randomized Clinical Trial of Vision Therapy/ Orthoptics versus Pencil Pushups for the Treatment of Convergence Insufficiency in Young Adults. Optometrist & Vision Science 2005

Did You Know?

Vision therapy for convergence insufficiency improves academic behaviors.

A recent study that confirms that academic behaviors, as measured by the Academic Behavior Survey (ABS), improve following successful treatment of convergence insufficiency. The study was published in the January 2012 issue of Optometry and Vision Science.

Quotable

While the majority of eye care professionals treat children diagnosed with CI using some form of home-based therapy, a new study concludes that office-based treatment by a trained therapist along with at-home reinforcement is more effective.

The research, reported in the Oct.13 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, was funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health." NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH National Eye Institute Press Release Monday, October 13, 2008