Vision therapy is a highly personalized program of activities administered by an optometrist to improve functional visual skills such as eye teaming , tracking , focusing and overall visual perception.

Vision therapy does not aim to strengthen the eye muscles, but rather, trains, or re-trains, the learned aspects of vision in the brain. The therapy itself includes specialized tools, lenses, prisms, 3-dimensional pictures, computer-based programs and even virtual reality games! Vision therapy teaches visual system to work more accurately, efficiently, and comfortably. This is turn makes using the visual system less effortful, positively impacting reading, learning, working, driving and all activities of daily life that require vision.

Symptoms that vision therapy can help with include:

• Double vision

• Headaches

• Eye fatigue

• Light sensitivity

• Losing your place while reading

• Fluctuating Vision (sometimes clear, sometimes blurry)

• Difficulty changing focus

• Peripheral Vision loss
  

Common conditions that vision therapy can help treat include:

• Strabismus (eye turning in or out)

• Amblyopia (lazy eye)

• Convergence Insufficiency

• Accommodative Dysfunctions

• Post-Concussion / Post-Traumatic Vision Syndrome

• Visual Field Defects

• Nystagmus

• Visual-Vestibular Dysfunction