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A Connecticut boy is among four children all born with severe childhood blindness who gained “life-changing improvements” to their vision after an experimental trial of gene therapy. Jace was ...
In 2003, Children's began an $80 million, 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m 2) clinical expansion and started renovating 100,000 square feet (9,300 m 2) of existing space. Children's became the first freestanding children's hospital in Ohio to receive “Magnet Recognition” in 2004, which is the highest honor for excellence in nursing. [23]
Pediatric ophthalmologists also have expertise in managing the various ocular diseases that affect children. Pediatric ophthalmologists are qualified to perform complex eye surgery as well as to manage children's eye problems using glasses and medications. Many ophthalmologists and other physicians refer pediatric patients to a pediatric ...
Doctors are looking for creative ways to solve an eye problem that is becoming more common among children and teens. Myopia, the medical term for nearsightedness, is a vision condition where close ...
Medication is sometimes necessary to treat eye conditions and vision problems. Of course, this is highly dependent on the condition. Sometimes, the better option might be surgery, corrective wear ...
Vision rehabilitation (often called vision rehab) is a term for a medical rehabilitation to improve vision or low vision. In other words, it is the process of restoring functional ability and improving quality of life and independence in an individual who has lost visual function through illness or injury.
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] Vision therapy has not been shown to be effective using scientific studies ...
Strabismus (Eye Misalignment): Vision therapy is often used as an adjunctive treatment for certain types of strabismus, especially when the eye misalignment is associated with poor eye teaming or binocular vision problems. Studies have shown that vision therapy can help improve binocular vision and alignment in some cases of strabismus.