Vision Therapy

What is Vision Therapy?

Vision therapy is an optometrist-directed program of eye and vision exercises designed to improve the visual skills needed for clear, comfortable, and efficient vision. If you have visual symptoms such as eye strain, eye fatigue, headaches, double vision, poor visual tracking, or poor depth perception, vision therapy may be able to help you.

Our comprehensive eye and vision examination will check your eyes for structural abnormalities, and provide you with a prescription for glasses or contact lenses, if needed. In addition, we will also test many visual skills not always tested during “regular” eye examinations. These skills include

• Convergence abilities (eye teaming)
• Accommodative abilities (eye focusing)
• Oculomotor abilities (eye tracking)
• Depth perception and sensory binocular vision (how your brain uses the input from both of your eyes)
• Visual-perceptual skills

Deficits in these visual skills can cause uncomfortable or inefficient vision, even with the proper glasses prescription. A common example of this is convergence insufficiency, or the inability for the eyes to converge and focus at close distances.

Research has demonstrated vision therapy to be an effective treatment for convergence insufficiency as well as other visual diagnoses such as:

• Accommodative Insufficiency
• Oculomotor Dysfunction
• Amblyopia (lazy eye)
• Certain types of strabismus (eye misalignment)
• Certain visual deficits resulting from concussion, stroke, or other neurologic disease (see vision rehabilitation)