How Can Vision Therapy Help with Binocular Vision Disorders?Ī properly tailored vision therapy program may be able to reverse the effects of many eye conditions that cause issues with binocular vision, as well as develop and improve your binocular vision skills. In other cases, even surgery is not an option, and patients must live with the detrimental effects of their binocular vision disorder.įortunately, however, another treatment option, known as “Vision Therapy” is becoming increasingly well-known and popular for the treatment of binocular vision disorders, both in cases that have traditionally been corrected with surgery, as well as those in which surgery is not an option. In some cases of binocular vision disorder, such as amblyopia and strabismus, surgery is often the accepted method of correcting the issue. It is possible for even those with 20/20 vision, or better, to experience binocular vision disorders. Symptoms of these disorders may include poor eye movement control, inability to properly focus, poor eye-hand coordination, and difficulty with motor skills, figure-ground perception, and eye-teaming abilities. Vision disorders involving binocular vision occur when there is a failure of the eyes to work together properly, making binocular vision difficult or impossible.
The remarkable ability to use both eyes together to produce a single, unified image, as interpreted by the brain, is known as “binocular vision.” Our eyes, set a small distance from one another, give us a sense of “depth perception,” allowing us to gauge the distance to, and dimensional characteristics of, an object. As humans, we possess an incredible visual system that gives us the ability to see our world in three dimensions and judge distance with a great degree of accuracy.