Strabismus has been one of the least clearly understood phenomena in ophthalmology.

If the two eyes don't turn in in harmony with each other, or if they turn out, or if one eye turns in and the other turns out, or even if they both equally turn in more than mathematically justified or don't at all turn in when looking at an object at a distance less than infinity; strabismus ensues.

Treatment of Strabismus:

* Orthoptics: Orthoptics looks at muscle problems only in regard with their strength and not in regard with their agility that comes from an agile brain that is free from all kinds of static habit patterns.

* Strabismus Surgery: A very controversial treatment method as far as strabismus is concerned! It concentrates on cosmetic improvement more than the real functional one. Surgery is not able to make the eyes work better as a binocular (two-eyed) team.

* Vision Therapy: Vision therapy is the only properly comprehensive treatment of any kind of strabismus. All strabismus has one thing in common, and that is that it affects the central fixation of the eye in a negative way. Or it can be taken the other way round - when the central fixation is lost; strabismus ensues, whether overt (obvious) or covert (in-obvious). In fact, almost every single person on earth is strabismic whether to this or to that extent. With declared strabismics, this condition is only obviously more so. As soon as the eyes achieve their central fixation through vision therapy, strabismus goes away both cosmetically as well as functionally.

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