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| Double vision is a common side effect of poor convergence ability. Convergence is the ability for the eyes to turn inward towards each other. This is important for all near tasks. See if you notice... look in the distance across the room. Now hold a pen in front of your head around 12 inches from your nose. Look from across the room to the pen. Do you feel your eyes turning in? Now pull the pen towards your nose... how close can you bring it before it becomes double? Many times the ability to converge the eyes is overlooked in eye exams. This is a very key item in reading, and near vision tasks. Do you ever get tired and feel difficulty in "focusing" at a book or computer screen? Do you ever feel like you see double at near? This is do to poor eye alignment. Poor alignment can cause headaches, due to a strain to keep your eyes aligned. This same near stress can decrease concentration, and reading accuracy. Attention deficit disorder is heavily linked to this ocular stress. Convergence Insufficiency has a very high success rate in therapy. Most people can have marked improvement after two weeks, noticing less eyestrain, headaches, better attention. Most cases can be alleviated in 3-6 months, depending on the motivation of the patients.
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