Researchers have discovered a way to allow the adult brain to rewire itself and form new connections, possibly paving the way for new amblyopia treatments. The study plays off the same core idea as vision therapy: The brain can adapt to stimuli and make new neural connections.
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
We’ve written quite a bit about amblyopia, or lazy eye, over the last several years. In the course of blogging repeatedly on the topic, we’ve created some exceptional posts that have generated a lot of traffic. Here are our top 10 posts in terms of website views and social media shares.
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
We’ve kept a close eye on the use of computer games to help treat amblyopia, or lazy eye, as it’s commonly called. A company that builds these games recently went bankrupt. The reason appears to be tied less to a poor business model and more to a lack of understanding the short and long-term outcomes of amblyopia treatment.
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
We should be getting used to this by now, but yet another research paper has ignored the impact of vision therapy on the treatment of amblyopia, or lazy eye. In fact, some of the statements regarding the study made us, well, cringe.
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
The medical community has its opinions about how to treat a lazy eye. But we think basketball actually holds the secret to helping us understand the proper way to treat amblyopia, otherwise known as lazy eye.
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
Why is it that so many kids with vision problems don’t get treatment? In cases of amblyopia, it’s often because the kids don’t even realize they have a vision problem. For Maya’s family, the discovery that their daughter had ‘lazy eye’ was a huge surprise.
Topics: Success Stories, Vision Therapy, Amblyopia (Lazy Eye), Success Stories - Amb
This isn’t the first time we’ve blogged about video games being used to treat amblyopia or lazy eye, and it undoubtedly won’t be the last. We’re following a new study on how video games can be used to treat lazy eye. We like the potential of what this could deliver, but we’re concerned using video games may fall short of what any amblyopia treatment must do: Restore binocular vision.
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
For parents who have just received a diagnosis that their child has lazy eye, there’s generally a sense of panic. Most parents rush to the computer to search for answers about lazy eye in children. As you begin to research the condition, here are 15 things to keep in mind:
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
You’ve just had your child in for a school vision screening, and you’ve been told that one eye doesn’t seem to have the acuity, or ability to see as clearly, as the other eye. Your child may have amblyopia (lazy eye). Here are four answers for questions we hear from parents wondering how to fix a lazy eye.
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)