Handbook of Vision Therapy

This Handbook of Vision Therapy is an ideal guide for all those specialists in Visual Health who wish to know the different techniques that may be used to treat the dysfunctions in ocular accommodation, binocularity and ocular motility from a multidisciplinary perspective. Throughout this Handbook, we will see what we understand by Vision Therapy, also known as visual training or orthoptics, its historical evolution, the personal traits that may affect to the success of this therapy and the basic concepts that should be taken into account when applying any vision therapy programme. We will describe the basic aspects to consider in order to develop a successful vision therapy programme and how should be the attention that we will provide to patients that require this professional service. In the last place, we will explain the procedures of assessment and treatment of amblyopia, strabismus, oculomotor dysfunctions, the dysfunctions of ocular accommodation and binocular dysfunctions, focusing in each chapter in the exercises that can be performed and in the modifications that we can introduce to increase or reduce the level of difficulty of the tasks. It is a reference book for all opticians, optometrists, physicians or specialists in visual health that wish to know what these techniques consist of, their theoretical basis and, particularly, their possibilities of implementation to professional practice.