What is vision therapy?
JOINT STATEMENT ON VISION THERAPY Information for Health Care and Other Allied Professionals A Joint Organizational Policy Statement of the American Academy of Optometry and the American Optometric Association INTRODUCTION Society places a premium on efficient vision. Schools and most occupations require increasing amounts of printed and computer information to be handled accurately and in shorter periods of time. Vision is also a major factor in sports, crafts, and other pastimes. The efficiency of our visual system influences how we collect and process information. Repetitive demands on the visual system tend to create problems in susceptible individuals. Inefficient vision may cause an individual to slow down, be less accurate, experience excessive fatigue, or make errors. When these types of signs and symptoms appear, the individual’s conscious attention to the visual process is required. This, in turn, may interfere with speed, accuracy, and comprehension of visual tasks. Many of
VISION THERAPY: (also known as vision training or visual training, behavioral optometry): A form of supervised therapy aimed at improving visual skills, such as eye teaming, depth perception, tracking and vision-body coordination (more typically called “hand-eye” coordination). Vision therapy is a rehabilitative therapy. It can be described as physical therapy for the brain and eyes. Through a progressive series of therapeutic procedures, patients who lack stereo vision or other adequate visual skills can trained to control their eye muscles and how to see effectively with both eyes. Vision therapy is remarkably successful in rehabilitating all types of binocular vision impairments including amblyopia (lazy eye), strabismus (crossed-eyes), esotropia, exotropia, esophoria, exophoria, hypertropia, hyperphoria, as well as other binocular conditions. Vision therapy (or orthoptics) is a completely medically accepted and proven practice when applied to binocular vision conditions, such as la
Vision therapy (VT) is a personal treatment program designed to improve various visual problems through eye exercises. The goal of vision therapy is to teach or reinforce visual skills under controlled conditions. The exercises strengthen visual skills in an effort to improve vision and to relieve symptoms.
