Patent ID: 7033026

Claim:
A method of treating monocular amblyopic conditions within a patient's human vision system having left and right visual channels so that persistent binocular vision is achieved, said method comprising the steps: (a) applying a complex afocal binocular lens system to an amblyopic eye of a patient, including a contact lens on the amblyopic eye, to provide the amblyopic eye with more magnification than the non-amblyopic eye during treatment so as to over-stimulate the neural pathways along the visual channel of the amblyopic eye, without applying occlusion therapy or penalization therapy along the visual channel not afflicted by amblyopia; and (b) during the course of treatment, testing the powers of the patient's human vision system including the patient's power of stereoscopic vision and adjusting the optical correction provided by said complex afocal binocular lens system to enable good functional vision bilaterally; and (c) when, during the course of treatment, the stereoscopic power of the patient's human vision system approaches a predetermined amount of disparity, then adjusting the magnification in said complex afocal binocular lens system before the amblyopic eye, so as to enable a state of harmony to be attained between said left and right visual channels of the patient's human vision system, at which a state of persistent binocular vision is achieved in the patient.