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Podcast: A Quest for Well-Being
Episode: Eye Patches: Treating & Preventing Blindness In Children
Description: — "If vision therapy is a method in which to make the eye and the brain train together so they can work better together, what is patching? Patching trains one eye to work harder to catch up with the other. This is not a scientific description - but - if one eye is communicating and working better with the brain it is dominating use of the brain. Patching helps so that good eye can take a time out so the brain has some time to work with the weaker eye. Being a parent faced with the choices of VT or pa...