Have you or your child recently received a diagnosis of an eye turn or a lazy eye? Debating if surgery and patching are the best next steps? Let us help walk you through all of your options.

Strabismus "Eye Turn"

Strabismus causes one eye to turn off target. This can cause double vision or only using one eye, both of which eliminate depth perception ability. Someone with an eye turn can struggle to use both eyes for reading, learning, and even daily life. They may also struggle with confidence when their eyes don't look "normal". Surgery is often recommended. But did you know it has a very low success rate? Most cases take more than one surgery to get the eyes cosmetically straight. Even then, they usually don't function together.

Amblyopia "Lazy Eye"

Amblyopia is more than just an eye problem; it is a neurological condition of the brain’s inability to use both eyes together as a team, so one eye becomes very dominant over the other. One eye is blurrier than the other and lags behind in many ways. Patching is the typical treatment, and works fine for improving eyesight. But it does not train the eyes to work together. Patching is fine, but Vision Therapy is so much better!

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We invite you to learn more about your options from developmental optometrist, Neil Renaud, OD, FAAO, FCOVD. You may feel like surgery and patching are your only choice. Vision Therapy is a non-invasive treatment that focuses on developing function and achieving real life goals. It can teach you at any age how to straighten your eyes, use both simultaneously as a team, see in 3-D and keep both eyes "turned on" at all distances.

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