strabismus cured through vision therapy PtIII

Thirteen year old had 20/200 vison with exotropia. He was told there was nothing to do. He left the office with 20/40 on the left eye, 40" arc stereopsis and exophoria.He was at the office for a year. His Rx is
+5.00/-3.00 x 90

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• therapy
• VT
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[visioncenter]

I didn't see that I had many any generalizations about all therapy working for all strabismus. I know many more optometrists open to the benefits of surgery than I know ophthalmologists open to the benefits of optometric vision therapy. Even if Susan Barry's case was as you describe, it was only Optometric Vision Therapy that gave her the result she had wanted for years. What were the ophthalmologists at NASA thinking?

The papers you quute are just a restatement of the "same old".

[1eonberg]

The tropia shift occurs on covering the left eye, as well as uncovering the left eye (10 sec) with refixation.. As for CITT, this deals only with exercises for convergence insufficiency. A generalization that vision therapy therefore works for all strabismus is a fallacy. A $60 CVS computer program works fine and is cheaper. The reason most insurances don't cover VT is because it's not cost effective. Susan Barry had an intermittent tropia that decompensated to a constant tropia.

[visioncenter]

@1eonberg

The CITT study does absolutely NOT support your claim that a $60 home-based program is as good as an office-based program with homework to be done 5 times a week.

[visioncenter]

Tropia? Don't know what journals you've been reading but the tropia would feature if on covering the right eye, the left eye would take up fixation from its strabismic position, as in the inital videos. (or vice versa) .

As far as getting up to date, the 1980's really sound up to date!!!????? It's 2010 and probably time that you read all you can about the CITT study. Also worth reading Susan Barry's book Fixing My Gaze. Worth reading the Nemet study from 1992.

1980's ? Get with it.

[1eonberg]

As for the recent literature review on vision therapy, perhaps you should read the following articles:

1. BT Barrett, A critical evaluation of the evidence supporting the

practice of behavioral vision therapy. Oph Phy Opt 2009,29:4-25.

2. EM Helveston, Visual Training: Current Status in Ophthalmology,

AJO, 2005, 903-910

3. JA Rawstron, et al. A systematic review of the applicability and

efficacy of eye exercises. JPOS, 2005, 42:82-88.

[1eonberg]

The tropia shift occurs on covering the left eye, as well as uncovering the left eye (10 sec) with refixation.. As for CITT, this deals only with exercises for convergence insufficiency. A generalization that vision therapy therefore works for all strabismus is a fallacy. A $60 CVS computer program works fine and is cheaper. The reason most insurances don't cover VT is because it's not cost effective. Susan Barry had an intermittent tropia that decompensated to a constant tropia..

[jbonna]

@1eonberg If vision therapy is bunk, how do you explain Susan Barry's case then?

[1eonberg]

Kid still has intermittent exotropia, OS > OD. How would that be a cure? Despite what you were taught, vision therapy was debunked as a real treatment in the 1980's. Read a journal and get up-to-date.

[natlongrox]

HOW WAS HE CURED?!

[rdled]

No he is not. It is the same kid.