Vision therapy can be accurately thought of as physical eye therapy as well as the brain. Eyes are naturally interconnected to the brain, because they are physically and directly extended from it. It is a fact that people do not really see with the eyes. Humans see through their eyes, but not with them. They see with their mind and brains.
Vision eye therapy is usually erroneously interchanged with orthoptics. The latter is defined as eye straightening, and it started in the latter half of the 19th century. Its scope is only limited to the training of the eye muscles and in cosmetic eye straightening. Vision therapy certainly includes the discipline of orthoptics, but the former is so much more than that. It includes the rehabilitation and training of the connections between the eye and brain, with the end goal of improving vision. The clinical studies and development of researches in the field of vision therapy are intimately allied and connected with neuroscientific research.
Vision therapy is primarily within the field of optometry. It must be kept in mind that optometry is different from ophthalmology. The former is practiced by optometrists, who are licensed by the state to diagnose and treat eye health problems. They are doctors of optometry. On the other hand, ophthalmologists are physicians or medical doctors. Their field comprises eye diseases and eye surgery. While a few ophthalmologists enhance their practice by association with specialists in vision therapy or orthoptics, vision therapy is not really their primary discipline.
Vision therapy is established as a valid optometric field. It is scientific and is founded on scientific principles. It is an evolving field as well, with research and development constantly gaining new ground in terms of knowledge, information and practical methods. Unfortunately, not all ophthalmologists and optometrists have the same opinion about vision eye therapy. Some have expressed their negative views on this field and have published such views on the Internet. It therefore behooves the public who research on this kind of therapy to identify information on the web that is objective, fair and unbiased.
Some ophthalmologists condemn vision therapy because in their area, vision therapy and non-surgical procedures are not too much favored by insurance companies, and they get less compensation for such a non-invasive therapeutic procedure. Nevertheless, this is not to say that they are unscrupulous health practitioners. Most of the time, their negative views are further supported by lack of information and familiarization with the particular field they are talking about. In other words, to be a little bit more blunt, they did not do their homework.
It must be borne in mind that ophthalmologists are not the final authority when it comes to eye care, particularly vision therapy. They are highly competent eye surgeons and well versed in diseases of the eye, but they simply lack training in fields such as visual convergence, processing, vision accommodation, and especially vision therapy. Even they have admitted this fact, with one ophthalmologist and researcher stating that optometrists are more trained when it comes to visual convergence and visual accommodation. And visual researchers and optometrists have even diverged enough to use scientific and medical terms not familiar to the average ophthalmologist.
Therefore, vision eye therapy needs a fairer and better consideration.
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