Press LJ, Taub MB, Schnell PH. Applied Concepts in Vision Therapy 2.0. Santa Ana: Optometric Extension Program; 2022, $159.00, 543 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 9780929780542

OBJECTIVE To evaluate two cases of intermittent exotropia treated by vision therapy the efficacy of the treatment by complementing the clinical examination with a 3D videooculography to register and to evidence the potential applicability of this technology for such purpose. METHODS We report the binocular alignment changes occurring after vision therapy in a woman of 36 years with an intermi...

Objective: To report on the use of topical nepafenac in the treatment of cystoid macular edema (CME) secondary to radiation therapy for choroidal metastasis. Method: Case report with presentation of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) findings before and after topical nepafenac therapy. Results: A 42-year-old lady with a history of breast carcinoma presented with left eye blur...

Vision therapy and rehabilitation have been used to successfully treat a wide range of visual disorders for over 90 years. Eye exercises are considered as one of the vision therapy-based program. Myopia as a refractive defect of the eye could be controlled through the use of vision therapy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of specifically designed eye exercises pro...

PURPOSE To determine the effectiveness of vision therapy among Korean elementary school children with convergence insufficiency. METHODS A total of 235 elementary schoolchildren, 10.13 ± 2.45 years of age, were subjected to thorough eye examination including binocular vision testing. Of them, 32 individuals with symptomatic convergence insufficiency without strabismus, amblyopia, and ocular d...

purpose: to report the results of orthoptic training in two middle-aged patients according to current theories. case report: a 56-year-old female with decompensated exophoria and myopia and a 68-year-old male with decompensated esophoria and moderate hyperopia underwent vision therapy according to standard procedures for improving fusional vergences and ocular accommodation. sheard and percival...

a 35-year-old lady presented with a history of decreased vision in her right eye from one week before her referral. she did not report any significant systemic disease. ocular findings were compatible with the diagnosis of central retinal vein occlusion. systemic laboratory tests were all within normal limits except for mantoux test (ppd) which was positive, 18 mm induration and 2+ redness. che...

Recently, the Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration with Photodynamic Therapy (TAP) Study Group reported that photodynamic therapy with verteporfin (Visudyne; Ciba Vision, Bülach, Switzerland) can reduce the risk of vision loss in patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This is a review of the circumstances leading to the...