InVision Eyecare Center | South Bend, Indiana

Vision Therapy

21st century life demands more from our vision than ever before. Many children and adults constantly use their near vision at school, work and home. Some visual conditions cannot be treated adequately with just glasses, contact lenses and/or eye patching, and are best resolved using Vision Therapy.
What is it?

Vision therapy -- a type of physical therapy for the eyes and brain -- is a highly effective non-surgical treatment for many common visual problems such as lazy eye, crossed eyes, double vision, convergence insufficiency and some reading and learning disabilities. In the case of learning disabilities, vision therapy is an individualized treatment plan specifically designed to resolve visual-motor and/or perceptual-cognitive deficiencies which interfere with reading, learning and educational instruction.

In Vision therapy, visual-motor skills are developed through the use of specialized computer and optical devices, including therapeutic lenses, prisms, and filters. During the final stages of therapy, the patient's newly acquired visual skills are reinforced and made automatic through repetition and by integration with motor and cognitive skills.

Who Benefits from Vision Therapy?

Children and adults with visual challenges such as:

Learning-related vision problems: those individuals who lack the necessary visual skills for effective reading, writing, and learning (i.e., eye movement and focusing skills, convergence, eye-hand activity, visual memory skills, etc.

Poor Binocular Coordination: When the two eyes fail to work together as an effective team, performance in many areas can suffer (reading, sports, depth perception, eye contact, etc.

Convergence Insufficiency: Recent scientific research -- funded by the National Eye Institute and conducted at Mayo Clinic -- has proven that in-office Vision Therapy is the best treatment for Convergence Insufficiency.

Amblyopia (lazy eye), Diplopia (double vision) or Strabismus (cross-eyes, wandering eye, or eye turns in): Vision Therapy programs offer much higher cure rates for turned eyes and/or lazy eye when compared to eye surgery, glasses, and/or patching, without therapy. The earlier the patient receives Vision Therapy the better, however, our office successfully treats patients well past 21 years of age. Recent scientific research has disproven the long held belief that children with lazy eye, or amblyopia, can’t be helped after age 7.

Stress-related vision problems: blurred vision, eye strain headaches, vision-induced stomaches, motion sickness or visual stress from reading and computers.

Brain Injury: Vision can be compromised as a result of neurological disorders or trauma to the nervous system. Vision Therapy can effectively treat the visual consequences of brain trauma (including double vision.

Sports Vision Improvement: Strong visual skills are critical to sports success. Not much happens in sports until your eyes instruct your hands and body as to what to do! We can measure and successfully improve eye-hand coordination, visual reaction time, peripheral vision, eye focusing, eye tracking and teaming, visualization skills, and more. Click here to find out how children and adults improve coordination and sports ability through Vision Therapy.

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