Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) is a condition where clear vision does not develop properly in one or both eyes, even when eye health appears normal and glasses alone cannot fully correct vision. The brain may suppress the weaker eye when images from both eyes do not match, leading to reduced visual development.
Common causes include strabismus (eye turn), significant prescription differences between eyes (anisometropia), large prescriptions in both eyes, or visual deprivation from conditions like cataract or corneal opacity.
Symptoms may include poor depth perception, clumsiness, difficulty with hand-eye coordination, or unnoticed visual imbalance because the brain suppresses the weaker eye.
Amblyopia can be treated in children, older patients, and adults through structured vision therapy. Treatment at Caring Vision Therapy uses a multimodal approach including monocular training, binocular integration, neuro-optometric rehabilitation, and optometric syntonics phototherapy to develop stable binocular vision and improved visual function.