Visual Therapy
There are many other common eye and visual problems which can limit the way you live and enjoy life.
These include:
- Nearsightedness: Myopia-seeing more easily at near than at distances.
- Farsightedness: Hyperopia-seeing more easily at distances than at near.
- Strabismus: Crossed eyes.
- Amblyopia: Lowered visual acuity (clarity), not correctable to normal acuity with lenses.
- Astigmatism: Distorted vision interferes with seeing clearly at any distance without effort.
- Poor Vision-Body Movement Coordination: Clumsiness, awkwardness, inefficient eye-hand or eye-body coordination, poor handwriting.
- Visual training, usually combined with appropriate lenses, may remedy, improve or prevent any of these conditions in both children and adults.
- Visual training and lenses are intended to alleviate the symptoms and eliminate the underlying cause inadequate visual skills and visual stress.
Studies show that success in visual training depends on an appropriate program prescribed by your optometrist, and on an individual patient's cooperation, participation and motivation.
It's Never Too Late to Treat A Lazy Eye
Merrill Rogers Skrocki
"Lazy eye" affects about four million people in the U.S. It occurs when, for one of several reasons, one eye is used less than the other. If one eye is crossed or turns out, the individual sees double, so he or she learns to "shut off" or ignore that eye. If the two eyes are very different, one nearsighted and the other farsighted, the same thing can occur. After a while, vision in the unused eye is reduced.
For many years it was thought that amblyopia, or "lazy eye" - when one eye sees poorly and cannot be helped with corrective lenses - was a permanent condition unless it was detected and treated before the age of six. Many optometrists no longer accept this, believing that even adults can improve their sight - if not completely correct their lazy eye - through special therapy.
Here at LeBlanc Eye Center we can assist with:
- Eye Movement Skills (Ocular Motility)
- Eye Teaming Skills (Binocularity)
- Eye-Hand Coordination Skills
- Visual Form Perception
* For More Info Come by or Call Us!
