Surgery in Walnut Creek

Lazy Eye Surgery Walnut Creek

There are several eye conditions that develop during childhood and if left untreated will continue to plague patients as adults. One such condition is known as lazy eye, it is a drifting or misalignment of the eyes, which is often a manifestation of amblyopia where one eye is experiencing significant vision loss due to a refractory deficit. Our lazy eye surgery Walnut Creek practice, the Shigio Optometric Group can diagnose lazy eye and recommend treatment options.

Lazy eye has two possible causes either a severe difference in focal power between the eyes or because of a condition called strabismus, which is also known as “crossed-eyed” a misalignment of the eyes usually caused when the six muscles that control the focusing of the eye are not of equal strength. The difference in the cause will help determine the treatment options available for our doctors to use including lazy eye surgery Walnut Creek. Lazy eye affects vision by conditioning the brain to base vision only on the images coming from the stronger eye and, therefore, minimizing the role of the weaker eye and possibly causing a further loss of visual acuity in this eye. Binocular vision is eventually loss along with the diminishing of peripheral vision on the weaker side.

Treatment options that our lazy eye surgery Walnut Creek doctor can use involve changing vision correction prescriptions to strengthen the weaker eye usually in the form of contact lenses. Our doctors can also use exercises and retraining of the brain to recognize the weaker eye, which is done through patching the stronger eye so the brain has to rely on the weaker eye. In the case of lazy eye caused by strabismus exercises can be used to strengthen the muscles of the weaker eye. Surgery can be used to either shorten the muscle to strengthen it or to lengthen a muscle to weaken it. Let our doctors evaluate your eyes for lazy eye or other conditions.

Shigio Optometric Group
325 N. Wiget Lane, STE 120
Walnut Creek, California 94598
(925) 478-3939

By Shigio Optometric Group

January 12, 2017