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Mount Joy Eye Care

905 201 1201

  • Our Practice
  • About Us
    • Staff
    • Operating Procedures
    • Careers
    • Did You Know?
    • In The Community
    • OHIP
  • Eye Care Services
    • Adult & Senior Eye Exam
    • Children's Eye Exam
    • Diabetic Eye Exam
    • Emergency Eye Care
    • Laser Eye Surgery Consult
    • Teleoptometry
    • Contact Lens
  • Expanded Services
    • Visual Nutrition
    • Myopia Management
    • Syntonics & Phototherapy
    • Functional Vision Exam
    • Vision Therapy
    • Special Needs
    • Dry Eye Clinic
  • Eye Spa
    • MIBO eyelid massage
    • Eyelid debridement
    • ZEST eyelid cleansing
    • Express Meibomian Glands
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What is a Functional Vision Exam?

What is a Functional Vision Exam?

What is a Functional Vision Exam?

When adults, and children have 20/20 (perfect vision) but still have difficulties with everyday activities, or show signs of increasing prescription glasses, a functional vision exam is necessary.


Functional vision is how your entire visual system - the eyes, brain, the visual pathways - work together to help you interact with your environment. 


Functional vision includes the following visual skill areas:

Eye Teaming

Occurs when the eyes align to focus on the same point on an object and work together in a coordinated and precise way. Good eye teaming allows efficient, single, comfortable vision and depth perception.


Eye Focusing 

This encompasses your ability to see an object clearly, and your ability to shift focus between objects at different distances. This may be achieved with prescription eyeglasses. 


Eye Movement

This includes your eyes' ability to maintain fixation on a moving object through space, move fixation from one object to another, or sustain fixation on a stationary object. 


A functional vision exam is performed by the doctor, prior to initiation of therapy. The examination takes 90 minutes. The end results will be provided in a report format and reviewed with the family on a subsequent day. 

Our Approach

What is a Functional Vision Exam?

What is a Functional Vision Exam?

Based on the results of a functional vision exam, we select a therapy option specific to each patient that is going to alleviate symptoms and offer the best quality of life in regards to that patient’s needs.  


Therapy Options Following A Functional Vision Exam

MYOPIA MANAGEMENT

Myopia (near-sightedness) is having difficulty to see distant objects with the natural eyes. The age of onset of myopia will determine the risk level to the eye health.

  • Early Onset (Age 0-6): prescription will worsen until age 24
  • Typical Onset (Age 8-10): prescription will worsen until age 15
  • Late Onset (Age 14+): prescription will worsen until age 16/17

As the prescription worsens, the eye becomes larger, stretching the inside of the eye, which can result in serious eye health complications, including blindness. 

Myopia Management includes frequent monitoring by the doctor, while the patient follows a customized therapy plan. 


VISION THERAPY

Vision therapy involves customized exercises, activities and treatments, to improve visual function. 

Have a look at some of our success stories:

https://mountjoyeyecare.com/vision-therapy 

Vision Symptom Survey

Are you able to answer 'no' to the questions below?

Changes in visual clarity

Complaints of blurred or double vision during near work

Eye Comfort

Are you less comfortable with night vision, and or feel soreness and strain around the eyes, including headaches and dizziness?

Persistent eyestrain or headaches with reading or computer us 

Fatigue

Avoiding homework, or showing frustration with school work? Do the eyes feel fatigue and or a pulling sensation around the eyes?

Visual Abnormalities

Have you noticed double vision and or moving print, and you may need to close or cover one eye to make it better? Is there rubbing of the eyes or tilting their head while reading?

Light Sensitivity

Have you been sensitive to indoor and or outdoor lighting?

Reading

Difficulty reading at grade level or skipping words and lines while reading?  Frequent confusion between similar letters, such as b, d, p, and q ? Trouble understanding what they read or retaining information?

Depth Perception

Are you bumping into things, and having less confidence with steps?

Visual Perception

Do you see things where they are not supposed to be?

Visual Noise

Do you feel discomfort in crowds? A short attention span or difficulty sitting still during tasks?

Visual Processing

Does your ability to read, and comprehend seem less efficient? And you may even feel you lose your place or skip lines? 

If you answered YES to any of these, there may be an underlying vision issue that impacts learning,

Vision Therapy at Mount Joy Eye Care is designed to address these challenges, helping children excel in school and beyond.

To get started, schedule a Functional Vision  Exam.

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Success Stories

H.R.

This young lady faced the challenge of double vision, resulting in difficulties such as losing her place while reading and skipping words. To address these issues, a personalized therapy program was developed to meet her specific goals. In just five months of consistent weekly vision therapy sessions, she experienced a remarkable resolution of her complaints and significant improvement in her visual skills. Congratulations to her and her family for their support throughout this transformative journey! 

J.J.

This high school senior faced challenges with double vision, particularly after engaging in school work. To address this, a tailored therapy program was developed to alleviate her visually debilitating symptoms and equip her with tools for her future visual needs. Remarkably, after just four months of consistent weekly vision therapy sessions, she not only experienced symptomatic improvement but also achieved outstanding results in her final assessment. Congratulations to her for her remarkable progress, and kudos to the support provided by her family throughout this journey! 

Children with Vision Issues are at Higher Risk for developing ADHD "Research indicates that children with vision issues are 200% more likely to receive an ADHD diagnosis."


Optometry and Vision Science, May 2016.

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