I have no idea. If you have experience with it, let me know. I often heard strength is not really the issue with the extra ocular muscles, rather the integration or the grasp that the nervous system has on them. As in sports: rather a technique than a strength issue. Either way, I’d be great to get fluid and binocularly harmonious eye movements in all directions all the time.

Yes, you are a “head locker”. Instead of moving the eyes, you lock the eyes in position and move your head. That gives some comfort initially but ultimately it erodes visual flexibility and perhaps even gaze stability in primary gaze (looking straight ahead). This phenomenon is also induced even more if the prescription for either eye is very different (anisometropia). Then the different lenses induce various optical effects when looking to the side. A solution for this can be contact lenses and then training range and stability of gaze. Contact lenses also eliminate the optical distortions that glasses can bring about bc they are placed right on the eye. Lastly contact lenses enable the opening up of peripheral vision which is important when acquiring fusion and stereo vision. Personally I never found contact lenses very comfortable. I am a hyperope. It is unusual for hyperopes to wear contact lenses. I felt it made my vision less clear compared to not wearing anything at all…

I developed accommodative strabismus at the age of 3 due to uncorrected farsightedness. My mom saw something was wrong with my attention or vision. She had me tested by ophthalmologists and neurologists but for some reason none of them thought it would be necessary to give me glasses to correct the farsightedness and take off this accommodative load. The strain eventually lead to my eye teaming giving out, strabismus, amblyopia, … Eventually I got glasses and they did some patching but did not fully treat with VT in order to restore binocular vision. Because I did not know about VT until later, I had several surgeries (age 16, 18 and 19). It’s a long way of saying that my strabismus originated because of negligence, not genetic determinism. This is even more clear if you consider my brother’s story. He is three years younger. My mom saw some of the same signs of having difficulty with paying attention etc around the same age. Having learned from my case, she had him tested for farsightedness. Bingo. Get the glasses immediately. Resolved the attention issues, no derailment of binocular vision. My wife, I found out later, also had strabismus when she was young. She was born prematurely because of stressful circumstances. She had to have surgery on the retinas and then later Strabismus surgery. That somehow helped to jump start binocular development. She now has normal stereo vision. In neither of our families there is a history of strabismus. I was not too worried about it. I feel like the strabismus was done to me rather than being genetically predisposed. I do get my kids visually examined to make sure though. Both in terms of refraction and binocular development it seems they have excellent vision. Touch wood. But if something would arise I would be aware soon and course correct asap.

I have done in office therapy for five years. I went twice a month and then home exercises every day. I did that from ages 20 to 25. Perhaps I should resume official training to take it further.

@@strabismusworld2026 sorry for the slow reply!:(.... wow thats a pretty long time... How bad was your eye turn? I had 12 diopters hypertropia and 10 diopters exotropia.... I would say your eyes look really good,by the way!

I started with a visible eye turn but now that’s pretty much gone in static situations. They might still misalign when in motion and when I am moving. That’s the challenge now. I think if that can be addressed more, I’d see the perceptual things falling into place as well

I didn’t design the goggles… But it makes sense the flat side is towards the eyes and the tilted side towards the outside it seems to me.

Where do you live?

That’s a rough story! I hope you can improve your vision so you can ameliorate these other side effects too! Good luck!

It took 2 years but I did it! www.dieptelerenzien.be

Thank you! I continue this work. Good luck with doing the same on your end, and your therapy!

Thanks, that means a lot!

Some optometrists in my network tell me Heike Schuchmacher, MD is a great option in Germany... Although I know Germany is a big country of course. She wrote "Vision and Learning", and she based around Frankfurt.

@@strabismusworld2026 Hi, thanks for the tip, i'll check her out!

over your glasses

You can buy them online without prescription from a few websites. vteshop.com for EU or good-lite.com for US.

@@mlee7450 how would you know the diopters needed?

@@ShotStoppers 2 or 3 diopters should be pretty versatile for exercises as well as therapeutic use. get the corrected curve version if available. recommend getting different diopters so you can do asymmetrical prisms as well for example R 3 base in L 2 base in