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Vision therapy (VT), or behavioral optometry, is an umbrella term for alternative medicine treatments using eye exercises, based around the pseudoscientific claim that vision problems are the true underlying cause of learning difficulties, particularly in children. [1]
Orthoptics is a profession allied to the eye care profession. Orthoptists are the experts in diagnosing and treating defects in eye movements and problems with how the eyes work together, called binocular vision. These can be caused by issues with the muscles around the eyes or defects in the nerves enabling the brain to communicate with the eyes.
A comprehensive eye examination including an ocular motility (i.e., eye movement) evaluation and an evaluation of the internal ocular structures allows an eye doctor to accurately diagnose exotropia. Although glasses and/or patching therapy, exercises, or prisms may reduce or help control the outward-turning eye in some children, surgery is ...
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Amblyopia is the most common cause of decreased vision in a single eye among children and younger adults. [1] The cause of amblyopia can be any condition that interferes with focusing during early childhood. [1] [6] This can occur from poor alignment of the eyes (strabismic), an eye being irregularly shaped such that focusing is difficult, one ...
Exercise #1: The Eye Roll. Maya Borenstein for LittleThings. One extremely common, easy-to-do eye exercise is the eye roll. Slowly move your eyes in a circular motion, clockwise.
An eye movement shifts the orientation of the coil to induce an electric current, which is translated into horizontal and vertical eye position. The second technique is an eye tracker . This device, while somewhat more noisy, is non-invasive and is often used in human psychophysics and recently also in instructional psychology.
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