What we do
Our office evaluates, diagnoses, treats, and manages vision disorders that can impact reading, learning, and other activities required in daily life. For children or adults, the first step is to schedule a functional... Show
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What we do
Our office evaluates, diagnoses, treats, and manages vision disorders that can impact reading, learning, and other activities required in daily life. For children or adults, the first step is to schedule a functional vision evaluation (click that link to learn more).
Depending on the type of problems we find, sometimes glasses can help. If glasses won't solve the vision problem, Optometric Vision Therapy may be indicated. Optometric Vision Therapy is much like “physical therapy”, but rather than treating the muscles of the body, it works on the eye-brain connection. A thorough examination with the doctor will determine the best course of care. If indicated, the doctor will prescribe an individualized treatment program of Optometric Vision Therapy.
Our "why"
We are located in Houston, Texas, a city where there are ample optometrists in any given zip code. Why would anyone think to have another optometry practice here?
Our answer to that is that Texas Vision Therapy is not just another optometry practice. We are one of the few offices in the whole metroplex truly devoted to vision-care.
Neuroscientists have studied the brain for centuries and their research has shown how every single portion of the brain is involved in vision in some way. Every part of the cortex is what allows us to understand our world and then the brainstem and cerebellum are what move the eyes around in the sockets. This brain-eye connection is what permits us to read this text and understand what it says, to look out a window and judge how far away the traffic is on the street, judge when to turn across a lane of traffic and not get hit by the oncoming cars, know where to move our hands in order to catch something that is falling, look at a fabric and know what its texture feels like without touching it, etc.
Those same scientists have learned that there is a reciprocal relationship between our visual skills and our performance in school, at work, and on the field; when our visual skills work well we can succeed in our environments, then on the contrary when our environments aren't supportive our visual skills can worsen.
At Texas Vision Therapy, we take the vision science found in academic textbooks and transform it into clinical practice. We understand the relationships between vision and behavior, performance, and learning, and we help you to improve your vision so you can improve the relationships in your life.
