Arizona Vision
Therapy Center

• Visual Comfort – These can include visual headaches, eye strain, fatigue and dry eye symptoms.

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• Attention – These are problems with focused or sustained attention that would prevent you from working or learning to your full potential.

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• Anxiety – There are many different types of anxiety that can be treated in this practice to include low level chronic dread, feelings of overreacting in typical situations, problems feeling at ease, problems concentrating because of anxiety during timed tests or deadlines, needing to feel anxious to keep yourself awake, racing thoughts and feelings that you are not good enough.

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• Reading and Learning – We help resolve the vision problems that cause difficulty in reading fluently and paying attention to newly learned information.

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• Coordination  – This includes eye-hand, eye-body, posture and balance skills.

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• Brain Injuries – Since vision is connected to over 80% of the brain, there is a strong risk for vision problems after an injury – using visual techniques is one of the most effective ways to balance the brain and improve healing.

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• Sensory Integration – Each sense needs to agree with the other senses to help you feel comfortable in your environment and to help that person bring in sensory information and act on it wisely.  We are able to help you connect your senses to allow you to work and learn at a higher level.

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• Convergence Insufficiency – When the visual skills are not coordinated well, it becomes difficult for a person to work with visual targets within arm’s reach easily.  It is as if the visual system becomes “spring-loaded” at near and can cause headaches, strain, fatigue and difficulty paying attention to things like reading and writing.

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• Visual Tracking Issues – When the eyes struggle to track accurately and as a team, the information that enters the brain is less clear, understandable and comfortable.  We are able to teach/remind your brain about the most efficient way to track so that your tracking is effortless and effective.

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• Focusing  – This often forgotten skill is necessary to keep visual targets clear at whichever distance it is located.  We help to teach and/or remind your brain how to determine where you need to focus and how to focus accurately.

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• Eye Turns (Strabismus) – Despite popular belief, eye turns do not usually occur because of a weakness of one or both eyes.  There is usually an eye turn to avoid double vision when the two eyes are unable to coordinate  well as a team.  We can teach your eyes how to work well together, which will remove the need for the eye turn.

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• Lazy Eye (Amblyopia) – Also despite popular belief, lazy eyes are not actually lazy.  They are the brain’s way of avoiding confusion by shutting off one eye.  The lazy eye is actually trying to become less noticeable so the other eye can work more effectively.

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• Autism or Developmental Delays – Vision problems are very frequent in people with these conditions because vision is learned during the developmental process.  When there is a problem with this process, vision is not learned well, and the person needs to make many adaptations to use their vision. These adaptations usually take a lot of energy and effort so it can be highly distracting.

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• Nonverbal Learning Disabilities – Visual centers in the brain are located very close to the verbal centers so vision can be used to help push forward development of these centers.

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• Motion Sickness (“Seesickness”) – When there is a poor connection between vision, balance and proprioception (body awareness), there can be an increase in dizziness or vertigo when you are moving.

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These are just scraping the surface of how interconnected your vision is with your sense of well-being and your ability to perform tasks easily accurately.  Our job here at Arizona Vision Therapy Center is to find the root sources of your vision problems and help you resolve them so you can have a better outlook on life.