If your child has been struggling with reading or learning, or if you suspect any difficulty with visual skills, be sure and ask us about vision therapy as an option. Vision is more than just seeing 20/20. Eye teaming, muscle tracking, and accurate focusing are a few of the skills necessary for good vision. These skills are especially important in children when learning and reading. Children, who are having difficulty in school, often have underlying vision problems. Vision therapy can be used to improve and strengthen eye muscle function used for tasks such as eye teaming, tracking and focusing, as well as to improve visual processing and pathways. The goal for vision therapy patients is always to make learning, reading and life skills easier for our patients through individualized training programs. Contrary to popular belief, your clarity of vision is only one of the many concerns we have for your eyes. During the visual examination, the health of your eyes is also evaluated carefully. By studying the blood vessels and retina, toward the back of your eye, many major eye diseases, or chances of one occurring, can be detected, such as glaucoma, cataracts, diabetes, etc… Teamwork is important not only in sports, but in using your eyes as well. Several tests are performed during the examination to see how well your eyes work together. Depth perception, color vision, and your ability to change focus are tested. We also have a visual fields computer that checks the total area you see at any one time, including your central and your peripheral vision to help assess the health of the retina. At the end of the examination, we will be able to tell you what prescription your eyes need to function at their peak.

Professionals can help fit you into a pair of lenses that is just right for you. We are experts in fitting contact lenses and can handle the most specialized needs. Whether rigid or soft lenses, we are experienced in handling the most difficult of prescriptions. New technology such as Pachymeter is used to measure the thickness of the cornea. The cornea is the clear window over the iris. It is used to help determine if laser refractive surgery is possible. A condition called Keratinous, a disease of the cornea, can be monitored by following thickness changes. A new study also found that the corneal thickness plays an important part in diagnosing glaucoma. The Pachometer will help us treat this disease and, in certain situations, treat in a preventative manner. The second piece of technology is an Autorefractor-Autokeratometer. This is a computerized instrument which takes 100 readings of each eye in a couple of seconds and gives the curvature or shape of the cornea and refraction. Both measurements are taken at the same time. The next piece of technology is a Corneal Topographer. This instrument takes 8,000 point measurements of the cornea. An analogy is when topography maps are taken of the land. It measures all the valleys and mountains of your cornea. This is used on all laser refractive patients before surgery and at all post-op visits. It allows us to follow the healing process. It is done on all contact lens patients to monitor the health relationship of the lens and cornea. Small corneal changes, which may not be detected any other way, can help us keep the patient wearing the healthiest lens and also see the very best.