Moncar Optics increases its Optometry services. After working as a professor at the University of Valladolid, where he completed his doctorate in Vision Sciences, and after working at the prestigious Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, Dr. Martín-Montañez inaugurates the Children's Vision and Visual Therapy Unit of Moncar Optics.
Vision goes far beyond seeing the smallest letter or the child having myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism. There are other visual anomalies that appear during growth (lazy eye, strabismus, focusing problems, binocular problems, failure to perceive visual information, ...) and that can have a negative impact on the learning process. Often children and adults get frustrated and think that their problems are related to intelligence or insufficient time spent studying, when they are simply unable to visually process information efficiently. What is the point of seeing distant things well if when you read a text you do not understand it or your head hurts?
Many visual symptoms are similar to the symptoms found in attention deficit disorder and other learning problems. Hence the importance of multidisciplinary work between psychologists and optometrists that this unit tries to promote. Many children and adults with these labels may simply be suffering from a vision problem.
Once the problem is identified through a thorough visual examination, if it is not solved with surgery, glasses or contact lenses, that is where visual therapy comes in, a series of systematic exercises that seek to develop visual skills. For example, science has taught us the amazing plasticity of the brain and today we know that through visual therapy we can treat lazy eye in patients who before, due to their age, we would have given up as impossible.
From Moncar Optics they warn that more than 25% of children between 4 and 10 years old have problems related to vision that affect their performance and school failure, however the number of children reviewed and corrected barely reaches 10% in Spain.
According to Dr. Martín-Montañez, the patients who can benefit from the Children's Vision and Visual Therapy Unit are children of any age, particularly with learning problems, adults with visual symptoms, patients with developmental delays and patients with acquired brain damage.
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