What is Cortical Vision Impairment?
Surgery, drugs, and therapy may help some of the conditions. In terms of specialists, ophthalmologists are trained in surgery and eye diseases, so their opinion would lean more toward surgery. Optometrists tend towards therapy. Surgery being rather drastic, therapy should be considered first. Surgery would help exotropia and endotropia only, not the other conditions. I was not able to find much about what drugs might be used or in what way they would work. One interesting idea from a research study is the use of Botox for esotropia and exotropia. Therapy for vision is also called by many names: visual therapy, vision therapy, optometric visual therapy, vision training, neuro-optometric visual therapy, behavioral optometry, orthoptic therapy, and developmental optometry. Regardless of what it is called the idea is that vision is a learned skill and can be rehabilitated to a certain degree. It is believed that most children with CVI will show at least some recovery. The brain can be trai
