Visual Therapy is an optometric treatment with the aim of enhancing and correcting the deficiencies of the visual system.
Known symptoms such as headache, watery eyes and red eyes may indicate that our visual system does not work correctly.
But they are also symptoms of visual problems to see blurry, double vision, have difficulty maintaining focus on an object, lose focus easily, skipping lines or words by reading, move your head too much by reading, have trouble distinguishing between the main idea and details of a text, having bad handwriting, reverse letters or numbers, confuse right and left ...
Even it may seem strange, visual acuity problems, convergences, accommodation, ocular motility, visual perception, eye-hand coordination, visual memory or immature ocular laterality are also the same deficiencies.
The vision consists of different sensory and motor abilities that are run by our brain and in the treatment of vision therapy is where we work our visual system and brain for maximum potential.
Unfortunately we often see children with a high IQ who have a poor school performance which could greatly improve with some visual exercises.
For effective results it is necessary that the method is customized and supervised by an optometrist specialized in vision therapy.
With these lines we would like to take the opportunity to explain the difference between vision and sight and what optometry is.
Many times we use the words sight and vision interchangeably, although we refer to different concepts: sight is the ability to discriminate details, however, vision is like our brain understands what our eyes see. Therefore, sight is more related to the amount of vision we have and vision to the processing of visual information.
And what’s optometry? It is the science which deals with studying and improving the skills and abilities of the visual system damaged by an imbalance between the capacities of the individual and the demands of the environment.
If the knowledge we have today were the same as 25 years ago, a visual examination would just pretend to know if a child had a 100% visual acuity (ability to see clearly). Today we know that having good visual skills, essential to good school learning, is at least as important as seeing well.