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About Vision Therapy

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What is Vision Therapy?

Vision therapy, also known as neuro-visual rehabilitation works to improve the coordination between the brain and the visual system. It’s purpose is to improve binocular function, or the way our eyes work together. Vision therapy targets the three major functional categories of the visual system: Oculomotor (eye movements), Vergence (eye teaming), and Accommodation (focus). These areas need to work together in order to achieve not only clear, but comfortable binocular vision. 

What Does Vision Therapy Treat?

Vision therapy can be used to treat patients with wandering, crossed, or amblyopic (lazy) eyes. It works to build the patient’s ability to voluntarily align their eyes, which in turn improves visual function and depth perception. It is also commonly used in cases of stroke or traumatic brain injury which have affected visual function.

Many of our patients appear to have normal eyes and often have 20/20 vision.  However, these patients often see words blurring, doubling, or moving on the page when they read.  They may have headaches, tired/strained eyes when they read or work on the computer. They may have slow, hesitant reading, lose their place when they read, or take hours to do 20 minutes of homework because their eyes do not work together as they should.  Vision therapy helps treat these visual dysfunctions which can dramatically impact a person’s ability to read, learn, and play sports effectively.  

Some of the most common binocular dysfunctions include convergence insufficiency, convergence excess, oculomotor dysfunction, accommodative dysfunction, visual processing or visual perceptual disorders, strabismus and amblyopia.

What Does Vision Therapy Not Treat?

Vision therapy does not treat learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders or dyslexia. These are complex neurological conditions which may have a visual component, but are not exclusively a vision problem. 

However, many visual problems often go undiagnosed, and some may even be misdiagnosed as reading or learning problems. Developmental Optometrists specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of visual function disorders. This includes helping to rule out other potential causes for symptoms which may not be visual in nature.

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Do you or your child need vision therapy in the Yakima area? If so, our team at Mountainview can help treat your functional vision problems. We offer vision therapy treatment which helps correct developmental visual problems. While children are our most common patients, we frequently treat adults as well. It is never too late to improve visual function.
  • 509-972-6688
  • Fax: 509-823-4433
  • cclift@mountainviewvisiontherapy.com

Mountainview Vision Therapy

  • 3909 Creekside Loop Ste 150 Yakima, WA 98902

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