vision therapy; orthoptic training; pleoptic training

Indications

• amblyopia
• strabismus
• heterophoria
  • esophoria
  • exophoria
• myopia
• nystagmus

Procedure

• may include eye exercises, use of eye patches, penlights, mirrors, lenses, prisms, & patches
• orthoptics are exercises designed to improve the function of the eye muscles
• pleoptics are exercises designed to improve impaired vision when there is no evidence of organic eye diseases

More general terms

• clinical procedure

Additional terms

• vision