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Anyone know anything about so called vision therapy? This topic keeps coming up for a child I know,and yet all the medical doctors with whom the family consulted are very against any sort of vision therapy and prism glasses. It seems that this field is considered alternative medicine which western medicine does not agree with.
Anyone here have any information about this? Was anyone really helped with it or is it really a gimmick and not worth it as M.D.s say.
This is absolutely real. My son had real reading problems, both Hebrew and English. He kept telling us that his eyes were tired after trying to read for one or two minutes. We were sure he was just lazy. It was affecting all his studies big time.
If you are in the NYC area go to Dr. Greenberg in Perl River. he will give you an honest evaluation. My insurance covered most of it. It takes weeks and weeks, but there was a DRAMATIC improvement in his studies and reading.
The regular MDs dont like to admit anything non surgical or pharmaceutical works. But this is real.
I personally know kids who were helped.
Though there are docgtors who indeed don’t believe it in, there are those that do, and insurance pays for it too!
My daughter, when quite young had a visual convergance problem. She was seeing double, but was not cross-eyed. She complained in 1st grade that she couldn’s easily see the chalk board because it was “TWO.” I took her to a very good eye doctor (in this case, an optometrist), and he gave a VERY extensive eye exam, and diagnosed the problem correctly.
He worked with her for several weeks thereafter, gave us different eye exercises to do with her daily, also prescribed bifocals (yes, a little six year old girl in bifocals)and in a few months, B”H her vision converged for good. I was the happiest mother in the world that it was a relatively easy fix, and she didn’t even need glasses for many years thereafter.
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