Wow Vision Therapy Blog

Lazy Eye, Amblyopia, is a condition of visual impairment that affects about 1 in 30 individuals. There are different forms of Amblyopia, some are due to a form of eye teaming failure (Strabismus) that occurs in infancy or toddlerhood, and…

Maybe you’ve been told by your eye doctor that nothing can be done to help Lazy Eye after age 10. If that is the case, then your doctor is basing their opinion on eye patching the good eye (occlusion therapy)…

By: Khaled (Patient’s Parent) Wow. Wow. Wow! I am so impressed by the team at Wow Vision Therapy. My son was diagnosed with moderate amblyopia in his left eye at age 7. While every other specialist had declared it would…

By: The Heyes Family Our Journey with Harper’s vision started back right when she started kindergarten. Before starting school, Harper had to receive a vision and hearing screening. During this appointment, unbeknownst to me, Harper really struggled to see. As…

Dr. Fortenbacher and Wow Vision Therapy are being featured with Vivid Vision in the Award-Winning Documentary Series, Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid. Too often, those with Amblyopia/Lazy Eye slip past an age where they are told nothing can be done to treat their vision…

By: Geoffrey (Patient) As an adult with Amblyopia, I’ve been told by far too many optometrists that my amblyopia was untreatable. Come to find out, that’s not necessarily true. Back in March of 2021, I came across a post on…

The Better Behavior Show – How Vision Problems Impact Child Behavior (CLIP) Podcaster Dr. Nicole Beurkens interviews Dr. Dan Fortenbacher Amblyopia or Lazy Eye is the most common form of vision loss in children that affects about 3.5% of the…

If you are an adult living with Amblyopia (Lazy Eye), you understand how your vision impairment has affected you during your lifetime. That’s because the vision loss associated with Amblyopia begins early in childhood. More importantly, your Amblyopia is more…

When people think about vision loss, they may often picture a blind person with a white cane. Yet, many different types of conditions lead to vision loss, each of which affects the quality of a person’s life differently. One common…

Amblyopia/Lazy eye is a severe neurodevelopmental vision problem that causes vision loss in approximately 2-4% of the population or 1 in 30 people. Neuroscience shows that Amblyopia occurs when there is a unilateral failure in binocular vision, occurring early in…

Amblyopia or “lazy eye” is a neuro-developmental vision problem that occurs during infancy and early childhood. Those with amblyopia experience reduced eyesight typically in one eye, even when best corrected with glasses or contacts. In this Success Story, one family…

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 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…

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…

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.…

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.…

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…

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 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, 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…

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…