Optometric News
The NFL’s Most Exciting Receiver
January 16, 2009 The Wall Street Journal Reports. While they're not over yet, this year's National Football League playoffs have already produced one spectacle for the ages: the remarkable ability of Arizona Cardinals' wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald to pluck passes...
Learning to See in Stereo
NPR Report - January 8, 2009 An old brain can learn new tricks. Adults with amblyobia can learn to see in stereo. Listen to they had to say Learn more.
New Study Suggests Vision Therapy is for Real
October 31, 2008 The Daily Herald Reports. A new National Institutes of Health study is lending credence to vision therapy as a treatment for convergence insufficiency, a vision disorder that may affect one of every eight people across the United States. Convergence...
Office-Based Treatment Best for Childhood Vision Disorder
October 20, 2008 The National Institute of Health Reports According to a new study, children with a common eye-muscle disorder responded better to treatments that included weekly office visits to a trained therapist than to strictly home-based regimens, which are more...
Testing for Eye-Convergence Insufficiency
November 19, 2008 Scripps Howard News Reports Sometimes stumbling blocks to reading development can't be attributed to a learning disability or concentration issues. A recent government report found that one in 20 students may suffer from a childhood eye-muscle...
Randomized Clinical Trial of Treatments for Symptomatic Convergence Insufficiency in Children
CONVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY (CI) is a common binocular vision disorder that is often associated with a variety of symptoms, including eyestrain, headaches, blurred vision, diplopia, sleepiness, difficulty concentrating, movement of print while reading, and loss of...