Convergence Insufficiency: The Private Eye Goes Public #4

Another great post from Dr. Len Press on Convergence Insufficiency: The Private Eye Goes Public #4.

A short preview of Dr. Press’ blog entry:

“Let’s briefly review the answers to the first three questions that Dr. Fortenbacher posed in part 1 of this investigative series, before addressing the final two points on why some doctors are disregarding a visual condition that leaves children and their families struggling needlessly:

• Could it be lack of training?
• Could it be the lack of a viable delivery system for treatment in the doctor’s office or referral network?
• Could it be that the doctor doesn’t care?
• Could it be that the eyecare professions don’t emphasize it in the journals or the doctor’s continuing education?
• Could it be because some organizations like the AAP, AAO and the AAPOS trivialize CI by lumping it in with LD and dyslexia thereby giving CI (and the treatment for CI) a misleading and  “controversial bias”?

He concludes with:

“… In this instance, the demands made of vision therapy have been met despite the bar being set much higher than the demands for other aspects of eyecare.  The worrisome information in this instance is that the way optometrists have been approaching vision therapy for CI all these years yields much better outcomes than the ophthalmologic approach.  It must be humbling for physicians to admit they are wrong about optometric vision therapy, to advise their patients of the outcome of the CITT study, and to change their preferred practice patterns.”

Click here to read the entire post.  Many thanks to Drs. Len Press & Dan Fortenbacher for their great research and writing!