The importance of good vision to reading and learning has been the subject of considerable study. Numerous clinical and research studies have shown that good visual abilities are beneficial to learning to read and to read with understanding. Children with normal eyesight (20/20) can have visual problems which affect how their eyes focus, team together, or move along a line of print when reading...

The first patients were treated with proton beams in 1955 at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California. In 1970, proton beams began to be used in research facilities to treat cancer patients using fractionated treatment regimens. It was not until 1990 that proton treatments were carried out in hospital-based facilities using technology and techniques that were comparable to those for moder...

Vision therapy, like any area in a health profession, is practiced differently by various clinicians. I will restrict this discussion to the most commonly practiced and largest portion of the area of vision therapy: treatment of accommodative and vergence anomalies, including strabismus. These categories include the majority of patients treated by optometrists providing vision therapy service. ...

Optometric vision therapy, also referred to as visual training or orthoptics, is an individualized program of therapeutic and rehabilitative procedures prescribed to provide treatment for diagnosed visual dysfunctions. Vision therapy involves participation of the patient in a sequence of specific controlled visual tasks or procedures that modify visual function. The therapeutic application of l...

In this paper we discuss our vision on future neurofeedback therapy. We analyze problems of the current situation and debate for a change in focus towards a vision in which neurofeedback therapy will ultimately be as easy as taking an aspirin. Furthermore we argue for a gaming approach as training, for separation between neurofeedback therapy and gaming has become noticeably smaller after recen...

tient’s baseline anticoagulant therapy contributed to the unusually slow progression of vision loss. A few reports propose beneficial effects of anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy in GCA-related vision loss. Buono et al reported improvement in acuity and posterior ciliary artery blood flow with the addition of heparin sodium therapy in a patient with progressive visual loss despite cortic...

This article describes a low vision rehabilitation program operating within a hospital-based outpatient rehabilitation clinic. The program uses a team approach combining ophthalmology and occupational therapy services. Patients are referred to the program by their primary care physician for a low vision evaluation completed jointly by the ophthalmologist and occupational therapist. The ophthalm...