Binocular Vision Evaluation

A Binocular Vision Evaluation is an assessment by a neuro-optometrist or developmental optometrist to assess, evaluate, diagnose, manage, and treat visual pathway and/or vision processing disorders causing many varying symptoms (see a brief list below). A neuro-optometrist or developmental optometrist assesses interaction or eye teaming of your two eyes (binocular system) by evaluating the overall strength, endurance, flexibility at distance & near, peripheral vision awareness, and/or the vestibular-ocular reflex of the binocular system.

Patients often experience signs/symptoms as follows:

• Double Vision

• Blurry vision at near or focusing problems

• Blurry vision at distance

• Skipping lines when reading

• Tracking problems

• Headaches

• Closing an eye to see clearer

• Words moving on a page

• Poor Depth Perception

• Squinting

• Head Tilts (right, left, up, down)

• Eye Turns

• Dizziness

• Motion sickness

• Balance problems

• Poor reading ability

• Difficulties with body-hand-eye coordination

Patients are diagnosed with many of the following:

• Focusing Problems: Accommodative Spasms, Accommodative Infacility, Accommodative Insufficiency, Ill-Sustained Accommodation

• Eye Muscle Problems: Convergence Insufficiency, Convergence Excess, Divergence Insufficiency, Divergence Excess, Esophoria, Exophoria, Intermittent Esotropia, Intermittent Exotropia, Vertical Heterophoria

• Eye Turns: Exotropia, Esotropia, Intermittent Exotropia, Intermittent esotropia, Vertical Strabismus, Strabismus, Strabismic Amblyopia

• Lazy Eye: Amblyopia, Refractive Amblyopia, Strabismic Amblyopia

• Other Eye Concerns: Aniseikonia, Anisometropia

• Eye Teaming: Deficit of Saccadic Dysfunction, Deficit of smooth pursuits

• Palsies: Third Nerve Palsies, Fourth Nerve Palsies, Sixth Nerve Palsies, Conjugate Gaze palsies

• Nystagmus (involuntary eye movements back & forth/up & down)

• Photophobia (light sensitivity)

These binocular vision disorders/dysfunctions manifest many vision & eye related problems that may impact a patient’s lifestyle, work and/or school productivity, sports performance, and many other everyday activities that many of us without these binocular vision dysfunctions/deficits do not experience.