Vision Therapy helps patients improve their foundation for reading, learning and playing sports. In fact, you can have perfect visual acuity―able to rattle off all the symbols on the reading chart―but still struggle with dyslexia, poor focus, hand-eye coordination, or vision conditions like strabismus, amblyopia, or convergence insufficiency. This is because vision isn’t just what we see, it’s how we interpret and interact with that information. Whether it’s reading words on the board, catching a ball, or tying our shoelaces, we depend on our visual system to work properly in order to succeed at any of these tasks. Vision is all about the way our brains and eyes interact. This is known as neuroplasticity, and is the guiding concept behind vision therapy’s success. The human brain is remarkable in its ability to adapt to new information with remarkable speed and success. The therapy program is customized towards the visual needs of each patient, and is adjusted throughout the process to encourage further visual improvements.
Vision therapy, often referred to as “physical therapy for the eyes and brain,” is a treatment program that consists of a series of “eye exercises” or activities that are prescribed and monitored by a trained optometrist, and are used to retrain the visual system to function more efficiently.
While eyeglasses and contact lenses are effective treatments for refractive errors like nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and presbyopia, there are other vision conditions which corrective lenses cannot fix.
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