Eye Exams in the Bay Area, CA | Low Vision Treatment & Vision Therapy

I used to wear contacts exclusively, and the ladies at 20/20 Optometry encouraged me to try on a few frames. They picked out for me, and I fell in love with one immediately. Now I exclusively wear glasses and get compliments on my frame almost every day... A. Ing

First of all, you will never come to a better place to improve your vision. The service an d the actual finished product far exceed anywhere I have ever been previously. My previous glasses were a disaster and took away from my ability to look good wearing glasses. After my visit.. A.Teboul

I read about dry eyes in a brochure at Dr. Lee’s office awaiting my first appointment/ visit. It seemed I had this as all the symptoms sounded familiar. Dr. Lee agreed I did have dry eyes and set me up on a plan to decrease the irritation in my eyes. A few weeks later, most.. C. Garcia

I cannot believe the change I had. I REFUSE to live the life with out the magic glasses Dr. Lee gave to me. I feel much better and relaxed after Dr. Lee found my eye problem and fix it. I have been fighting with it for over 20 years. I really wish I have seen Dr. Lee earlier in m.. J. Zhu

What a wonderful experience - Great people, great products, great service. Shaun is the best! I will refer everyone here. If I have to wear glasses, they should be fun – she gets it!.. L. Osborne

LASIK has given me a new found freedom from glasses that I haven’t had for over 10 years. I can’t explain how great it is to work and stay without the hassle of wearing glasses and the burden of needing to take them with me wherever I go... M. Torrez

A visual trip to the "eye doctor" seems like the most "boring" thing that must get done. However, at 20/20 Optometry, my experience was fun. The whole office staffs made my visit fun and exciting. Kudos to the doctor and her staff... V.Delgado

Specialty Eye Exam Services in the Bay Area, CA - Vision Therapy & Low Vision Testing

Vision therapy

Just like exercising our bodies to make our arms, legs, or abdominal muscles stronger, there are eye exercises or vision therapy that can make our eye muscles stronger too. Sometimes the muscles in our eyes may not function properly due to genetic predisposition (such as having crossed eyes), “lazy eye”, injury, or acquired eye muscle problems (ie. due to diabetes).

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There are different types of exercises to treat the various eye muscle problems. Prognosis is effective for many of the eye muscle problems. Some eye problems that are more complex can be more challenging and can take longer to treat.

Treatment is aimed at giving patients better visual function in activities of daily living. Not all therapies can “cure” the problem. However, functioning better in life without headaches, double vision, less eyestrain and improved depth perception is something to talk about!

Low vision

A low vision consultation can be performed to patients who are visually impaired and generally legally blind in one or both eyes. A person is considered legally blind if one eye has 20/200 visual acuity or worse even with corrective lenses. A person can be born with reduced vision or a person can acquire low vision via injury or an eye disease (i.e. macular degeneration). Many times there is no traditional lens treatment or surgical treatment that can help these patients.

However, a low vision consultation can completely change a person’s lifestyle by finding solutions that can improve a person’s ability to function better in their activities of daily living. By no means does the treatment cure the problem, but it does help a person utilize their existing vision better which in turn will improve the safety and function in their environment.

The low vision evaluation may take more than one visit. There may be many optical devices such as telescopes, magnifiers, hand held magnifiers, closed circuit television (CCTV), large numbered telephone touch pads, etc. that can be prescribed to a patient to help improve their quality of life. Generally, once the devices are selected and ordered, low vision training is medically necessary to aid the patient in understanding how to incorporate the new low vision devices to their activities of daily living. It does take time to do daily tasks in a new way, but time and patience will make the transition happen.

So even though the eye doctors tell these low vision patients there is no medical treatment, which gives the patient of sense of worthlessness and hopelessness. Just know that there is a solution that can help one function better in life.

If you know of someone that can benefit from this evaluation, please have them call our office so that we can help serve them improve their safety, function, and quality of life.