Wow Vision Therapy Blog
Category: Amblyopia
A Vision Condition That Can Be Affecting Your Child’s Self-Esteem
As children, we play, learn and explore. We typically don’t do this alone, as these tasks are done with other friends or classmates. And much like adults comparing their lifestyles with others on social media, magazines or the neighbor down the street;…
You’re Probably Using The Term ‘Lazy Eye’ Wrong
You often hear someone using the term ‘lazy eye’ to describe an eye problem. But are they using this term correctly? In my experience, very rarely. Understandably, most people have never dealt with ‘lazy eye’ and therefore don’t recognize…
After treatment ‘now Romeo’s vision is clear’
Amblyopia Success Story By: Lindsey (Romeo’s Mom) At the age of three years old, Romeo was diagnosed with amblyopia. He immediately began occlusion therapy in the form of eye patching for 8+ hours a day. We were told that Romeo was…
She feels ‘like the smartest kid in the class’
When we are born, we can only see a few colors, and objects are only visible up close. As we grow, many visual abilities develop in the process. These visual abilities help us move and interact with the world around us.…
Beyond patching…with new advancements in treatment for Lazy Eye, why are patients told to wear an eye patch?
When it comes to your child’s health care, what parent would prefer their child’s doctor to prescribe an outdated treatment, that provides limited results and many negative side effects? Most assuredly, all parents would say “No” if positioned this way.…
Amblyopia / Lazy Eye – No Patches, No Drops
At Wow Vision Therapy, we provide our patients with the most advanced patch-free treatment for Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) and age is not a barrier to success. If you or your child has amblyopia and you’ve been told the only treatment…
Treating Amblyopia with 3-D Virtual Reality
Imagine the day when there will be effective “no eye-patch treatment for adults as well as children with amblyopia? In this video you will see that day is NOW at Wow Vision Therapy. Amblyopia, otherwise coined “lazy eye” is a…
MFBF treatment for amblyopia shows patching alone is not enough
MFBF is a technique we use to accelerate vision developmentåÊthrough office-based treatment of our patients with amblyopia. ThisåÊlatest research (October 2010), from Current Biology, shows that this MFBF(monocular fixations in a binocular field) treatment methods are evidenced based in Neuroscience.…
Amblyopia treatment Eye patching alone is no longer the standard of care
Amblyopia, other wise known as “lazy eye”, åÊis the most common cause of preventableåÊblindness in children. While the loss of vision usually occurs in one eye, rarer forms of bilateral amblyopia do exist. This type ofåÊ “blindness”åÊoccurs in approximately 2…
Vision Therapy for Amblyopia…Building a house with more than just a hammer
Lazy eye or amblyopia, is the #1 cause of preventable and reversible blindness in children. Amblyopia can be caused by a variety of eye conditions, but the most common reasons why a child develops amblyopia is due to eye teaming…