Optometric
visual training, sometimes called vision therapy or VT, is a part of optometric
care devoted to developing, improving and enhancing people's visual performance.
Over
several decades, behavioral optometrists have developed and used visual training-in
combination with appropriate, judiciously selected lenses-to:  | Prevent
vision and eye problems from developing. | | Remediate
or compensate for vision and eye problems which have already developed. | | Develop
the visual skills needed to achieve more effectively at school, work, or play. | | Enhance
functioning on tasks demanding sustained visual effort. |
Vision
therapy can be described as physical therapy for the visual system which includes
the eyes and the brain. Through a series of progressive therapeutic procedures,
(eye exercises) patients begin to develop or regain normal visual skills.
Vision therapy is remarkably successful in rehabilitating all types of binocular
vision impairments (the inability to use
both eyes together). |
