Many vision disorders can be treated with corrective lenses such as glasses or contacts, while other disorders may be most effectively treated with optometric vision therapy or with a combination of the two. Vision therapy, an optometric specialty treatment, has been clinically shown to be an effective treatment for accommodative disorders (non-presbyopic eye focusing problems), binocular dysfunction (inefficient eye teaming), ocular motility dysfunctions (eye movement disorders), strabismus (turned eye), amblyopia (lazy eye), and perceptual-motor dysfunction. 

Visual skills such as accommodation (eye focusing), binocularity (eye coordination/eye teaming), oculomotor (eye movement skills), and eye hand coordination are neuro-muscular abilities. These visual skills are controlled by the muscles inside and outside of the eye and are networked with the brain. Neuro-muscular abilities are learned and are developmental in nature. Weak visual skills will not go away with time and without treatment. Binocularity (eye coordination/eye teaming), oculomotor (eye movement skills), and eye hand coordination can be retrained to perform more efficiently at almost any age.

Optometric vision therapy is a set of procedures that are individualized and prescribed by an optometrist to teach a patient how to improve a weak or nonexistent visual skill or processing skill through the use of lenses, prisms, special computer programs, and other treatment techniques. Typically, treatment is administered in the office under the supervision of the optometrist. During the program, home activities are usually given to reinforce the developing skills. The goals of vision therapy are to improve the patient's visual function, relieve associated signs and symptoms, meet the patient's needs, and improve the patient's quality of life. 

Dr. Feldman has been practicing Vision Therapy for the past 30 years and enjoys "seeing" his patients improve their visual skills and performance.