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What does that mean?
ACCOMMODATIVE INFACILITY - A reduced ability to focus the eyes from far to near and/or near to far.
AMBLYOPIA - A condition where the vision in an eye is poor even with the best optical correction.
ASTIGMATISM - Due to an irregular shape of one part of the eye, objects focus in two points instead of just one, causing a blur.
BINOCULAR VISION DISORDER - Difficulty using the eyes as a team.
CONVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY - A condition in which the person has difficulty bringing the eyes inward, at near, for skills such as reading.
CONVERGENCE EXCESS - A condition in which the eyes converge too much causing difficulty in turning the eyes outward.
CRANIAL NERVE PALSY/ PARALYSIS - A condition where a nerve that controls a muscle is partially or completely damaged causing moderate to complete loss of muscle function.
DIVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY - A condition in which a person has difficulty moving the eyes outward, causing eyestrain and/or diplopia.
DIVERGENCE EXCESS - A condition in which the eyes diverge too much, causing eye strain and /or diplopia.
DIPLOPIA - Looking directly at an object and seeing double.
ESOPHORIA - A tendency for the eyes to turn inward, but with effort can remain straight.
ESOTROPIA - A condition where one or both eyes turn inward. (crossed-eyed)
EXOPHORIA - A tendency for the eyes to turn outward, but with effort can reamin straight.
EXOTROPIA - A condition where one or both eyes turn outward. (wall-eyed)
FUSIONAL DISORDER - A condition i nwhich the eyes have difficulty teaming together.
HYPEROPIA - Farsightedness - it takes more effort to see near than far.
HYPERPHORIA - A condition in which one eye has a tendency to point higher than the other.
HYPOPHORIA - A condition in which one eye has a tendancy to point lower than the other.
HYPERTROPIA - A condition where one or both eyes point higher and remain seperate.
MYOPIA - Nearsightedness - It takes more effort to see objects far away.
NYSTAGMUS - Constant jerky eye movements, one or both eyes, usually side to side.
OCULAR PURSUIT DISORDER - A reduced ability of the eyes to easily and accurately follow moving objects.
POST TRAUMATIC VISION SYNDROME - Visual disturbance caused by trauma (i.e. blunt trauma, stroke, tumor, etc.).
SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER - A condition in which any of the rapid jumps made by the eyes from one fixed point to another is difficult (as in the reading process).
STRABISMUS - An eye turn or misalignment of one or both eyes, constant or intermittent, in which they point in different directions.
STREFF NON-MALINGERING SYNDROME - Near vision poorer than distant vision, poor focusing skills, little or no eyeglass prescription problems. Physiological or psychological stress.
SUPPRESSION - A condition where the brain ignores all or part of the information being sent from one eye, thus seeing with one eye when both eyes are open.
VISUAL PERCEPTION DISORDER - Difficulty processing visual information in the brain.
