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Vision therapy is a type of physical therapy for the eyes and brain.  If you are not an eye doctor you may not realize that we actually see with our brain, not with our eyes.  Vision Therapy is a highly effective non-surgical treatment for many common visual problems such as lazy eye, crossed eyes, double vision, convergence insufficiency and some reading and learning disabilities. 

In fact, a recent American study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Eye Institute concluded that in-office Vision Therapy is the best available treatment for convergence insufficiency.  Many patients who have been told, "it's too late," or "you'll have to learn to live with it" have benefited from vision therapy.

In the case of learning disabilities, vision therapy is specifically directed toward resolving visual problems which interfere with reading, learning and educational instruction. Optometrists do not claim that vision therapy is a direct treatment for learning disabilities.  However, many children have been mistakenly diagnosed with learning disabilities when the problem is actually a visual one.

Vision Therapy is an individualized, doctor supervised and doctor designed treatment program for the correction of visual-motor and/or perceptual-cognitive deficiencies. In-office Vision Therapy sessions supplemented by home reinforcement (homework) include procedures designed to improve visual comfort, ease, and efficiency and to enhance the brain’s ability to control:

• Eye alignment

• Eye tracking and eye teaming

• Eye focusing abilities

• Eye movements

• Interpret and process visual information

In-office Vision Therapy is supervised by doctors of optometry and various types of treatment devices are used (some of which are regulated medical devices), such as:

-corrective lenses (regulated medical devices);

-therapeutic lenses (regulated medical devices);

-prism lenses (regulated medical devices);

-optical filters;

-eye patches or occluders

-electronic targets with timing mechanisms;

-computer software;

-vestibular (balance) equipment; and

 visual-motor-sensory integration training devices.

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