Rancho Santa Fe Optometry provides top-notch eye care services to our community. Among our many services, we proudly offer Vision Therapy, a specialized program designed to enhance and improve your visual system. This article will provide an overview of our optometry services, focusing on our Vision Therapy program, and share insights from Dr. Lisa Weiss’s 25 years of experience treating various visual conditions.
Comprehensive Optometry Services
At Rancho Santa Fe Optometry, we offer a variety of services to meet all your eye care needs. Our services include:
Comprehensive Eye Exams: Thorough evaluations to ensure optimal eye health and vision.
Vision Therapy: Customized programs to improve visual skills and processing.
Contact Lens Fittings: Personalized fittings for maximum comfort and clarity.
Pediatric Eye Care: Specialized care for children’s unique visual needs.
Treatment for Visual Conditions: Management and treatment of various eye conditions to maintain and restore vision.
What is Vision Therapy?
Vision Therapy is a highly effective, non-surgical treatment designed to correct and enhance visual skills and abilities. It involves a series of customized exercises and activities that help train the eyes and brain to work together more effectively. Vision Therapy can benefit individuals of all ages who experience difficulties with their visual system, including those with lazy eye, binocular vision issues, or problems with visual processing.
The Evaluation Process
Our Vision Therapy program begins with a comprehensive evaluation process. This includes:
Comprehensive Eye Exam: During your initial visit, we conduct a thorough eye examination to assess your overall eye health and visual acuity. We will also discuss your specific visual needs and concerns to understand how they affect your daily life.
Visual Processing Evaluation: Following the eye exam, you will undergo a visual processing evaluation. This assessment helps us understand how your brain processes visual information and identifies any areas that may require improvement.
By combining the results of these evaluations, we develop a customized vision training program tailored to your unique visual needs.
How the Visual System Works
The visual system is the most important sensory system we have, with more brain cells dedicated to processing vision than any other sensory function. It is responsible for carrying out a variety of complex tasks, starting with visual acquisition—gathering information from the environment and transmitting it to the brain.
Key visual acquisition skills include:
Eye Tracking: The ability to smoothly follow moving objects.
Eye Teaming: Coordinating both eyes to work together.
Eye Focusing: Adjusting focus for clear vision at different distances.
Once the brain receives visual information, it has the crucial job of organizing, sequencing, and remembering this information. This process is essential for tasks such as reading comprehension, spatial awareness, and coordination in activities like riding a bike.
Addressing Visual System Challenges
When any part of the visual system is not functioning optimally, the brain must work harder to make sense of the visual world, leading to fatigue and reduced performance. Vision Therapy addresses these challenges by targeting and remediating specific areas of concern. This allows the brain to operate at its highest level, enhancing your ability to navigate through school, sports, and daily life.
Customized Vision Therapy Programs
Our Vision Therapy programs are tailored to meet the specific needs of each patient. Based on the results of your evaluations, we create a personalized training regimen designed to improve your visual skills and processing abilities. Our goal is to help you achieve the best possible outcomes, enabling you to perform better in all areas of life.
Vision Therapy at Rancho Santa Fe Optometry offers a powerful solution for those struggling with visual challenges. By understanding and addressing the complexities of the visual system, we can help you achieve clearer, more effective vision and enhance your overall quality of life.
Rancho Santa Fe Optometry Vision Therapy
In this video, Dr. Lisa Weiss, O.D., with over 25 years of experience introduces our Vision Therapy program. You will learn about the evaluation process, the importance of the visual system, and how our customized programs can help you reach your visual goals.
Explore the solutions to your vision issues and how Vision Therapy can make a significant difference. Call us at (858) 201-7956 or request an online appointment. Let Rancho Santa Fe Optometry help you or your child navigate the path to improved and optimal vision.
At Rancho Santa Fe Optometry we offer comprehensive eye examinations for all ages. With a focus on children’s vision and vision therapy, our doctors test for visual acuity, visual efficiency skills and visual information processing starting in early infancy. The practice also provides diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases that affect the human eye and visual system, including dry eye syndrome, diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, macular degeneration and keratoconus.
