What is Vision Therapy?
Vision Therapy is a speciality service working under the direction of a Neuro-optometrist to re-educate the brain and eye connection by increasing your visual efficiency and visual perceptual skills. Most commonly prescribed post-concussion, vision therapy can help alleviate and/or resolve symptoms such as headaches, nausea, dizziness, blurry vision, double vision, eye strain, eye fatigue, difficulty scanning busy environments, difficulty reading and using a computer & more! In addition, Vision Therapy can be prescribed by your optometrist for developmental eye conditions in children interfering with their ability to participate in school and play effectively.
- Convergence insufficiency
- Accommodative dysfunction
- Developmental eye conditions
- Concussion
- Saccadic dysfunction
- Pursuits dysfunction
- Eye coordination
What is visual efficiency?
Process of effectively viewing visual input. Visual efficiency encompasses visual tracking, eye-teaming and focusing.
Examples: skills required to read a book, transition from board to table or follow a moving object.
What is visual perception?
How we take in information and process it in order to make sense of it.
Examples: discriminating between right and left, an object in the foreground or background and visual memory.
Are you experiencing any of the below symptoms?
- Headaches?
- Blurry Vision?
- Double Vision?
- Difficulty staying on the line while reading/losing place?
- Words moving on the page while reading?
- Eye rubbing or squinting
- Fatigue from reading?
- Reduced attention to reading?
If you answered yes to any of the above, especially before, during or after reading, contact Priority Physical Therapy today to schedule an in-depth evaluation to determine your unique needs!
Resources:
Beck, C. (2022, December 8). Visual Efficiency and Vision Problems You Can Not “See.” The OT Toolbox.
Eye and Vision Conditions. (n.d.). American Optometric Association.
