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June 25, 2025
Everyday Eye Safety: How to Prevent Accidents and Protect Your Vision at Home
Your home may feel like the safest place in the world, but it’s also where more than half of all…
June 21, 2025
How Eye Tracking Affects Learning: What Parents Should Know
Many children across British Columbia struggle in school, not because of a lack of effort or intelligence, but because of…
June 17, 2025
Binocular Vision Dysfunction: The Overlooked Cause of Dizziness, Anxiety, and Visual Discomfort in Victoria and Nanaimo
If you’ve been dealing with dizziness, headaches, anxiety in busy environments, or eye strain that no one can quite explain,…
June 15, 2025
Contact Lenses and Your Eye Health: What You Need to Know
Contact lenses offer comfort, convenience, and visual freedom, but only when managed with the right expertise. At Opto-Mization, we regularly…
June 13, 2025
Functional Eye Exam in Victoria: The 17 Visual Skills That Could Be Holding Your Child Back
As a parent, you do everything you can to support your child’s development—physically, emotionally, and academically. But what if your…
May 29, 2025
Vision Therapy in Nanaimo: How Opto-Mization Is Changing Lives Through Functional Vision Care
When you hear the term “eye doctor,” you might immediately think of glasses, contact lenses, or a standard eye chart.…
March 9, 2024
Patching or Vision Therapy for Lazy Eye?
Amblyopia, commonly referred to as ‘lazy eye’, occurs when the brain and the eye are not working in perfect unison.…
March 9, 2024
Vision Therapy for Convergence Insufficiency
Research shows that Convergence Insufficiency (CI) can affect up to 15% of all school-age children – that’s approximately 1 in…
March 9, 2024
Exercises and Tools Used In Vision Therapy
Vision therapy uses a wide range of tools and exercises that aid in the therapeutic process. Here, you’ll find a…
March 9, 2024
Optometric Vision Therapy: Evidence Based Treatment for Head Injury
The new standards of care have recognized the importance of identifying and treating vision disorders after head injury. In his…
January 24, 2023
Can Vision Therapy Benefit A Child With a Learning Disability?
For decades, vision therapy has been [recognized] as an effective treatment for children with visual problems like strabismus (crossed eyes),…
December 29, 2022
How Can Poor Vision Affect Your Child’s Behavior?
It’s not uncommon for parents to encounter behavioural problems in their children at some point in time. While there may…
September 7, 2022
What?s an Ocular Migraine?
Ocular migraines, also known as visual migraines, are sudden, temporary episodes of visual distortion ? and can be quite scary…
July 15, 2022
4 Ways a Stroke Can Impact Vision
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world experience a stroke. Of the survivors, around 65% will have…
June 9, 2022
Why, post concussion, would turning your head cause snapshots of vision to follow slowly?
That’s actually a really cool one. So when you’re turning your head there’s a couple of different things that need…
June 8, 2022
Amazing letter from one of our post concussion patients
I wanted to write to talk about my experience with Dr Cam McCrodan and the Optomization Team. I sustained a…
May 30, 2022
Can a Brain Injury Affect Vision?
If you?ve been experiencing blurry vision, double vision or other visual symptoms following a car accident, serious fall or blow…
May 26, 2022
After an old injury, muscle on the top side of eyes feels like it?s pulling or tearing!
<span>?</span> There are a number of interesting symptoms that can come up when vision has been impacted after injury. With…