The Learn to See Vision Clinic is a unique optometry practice nestled in a Minneapolis neighborhood, close to the river. Dr. Les Alsterlund provides comprehensive functional vision evaluations that allow him to understand how patients are using their vision. Patients gain a thorough knowledge of their visual abilities and individualized treatment options.
The clinic specializes in the use of therapeutic and stress relieving lens prescriptions, vision therapy, and other treatment options. Dr. Les focuses primarily on patients with vision-related learning concerns and concussion rehabilitation, but also provides general eye exams to guide proper vision development and function.
The clinic specializes in the use of therapeutic and stress relieving lens prescriptions, vision therapy, and other treatment options. Dr. Les focuses primarily on patients with vision-related learning concerns and concussion rehabilitation, but also provides general eye exams to guide proper vision development and function.
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I also remember wearing an eye patch as a young boy. In and out of the eye doctor's office all my childhood, perhaps I was born to be a developmental optometrist. Entering optometry school, I was not aware of how much the vision system affected learning. I too, believed the myth that 20/20 eyesight was perfect vision.
Dr. Les Alsterlund does a thorough assessment that goes beyond a routine eye exam. More than looking at a pair of eyeballs, the evaluation is looking at the whole person to see how they use their eyes vision in their everyday life. Patients gain a better understanding of how vision works and what can be done to help them move beyond their visual barriers.
Dr. Les focuses primarily on patients with vision-related learning concerns and concussion rehabilitation, but also provides general eye exams to guide proper vision development and function. Dr. Les combines the longstanding practices of behavioral optometry with current research in neuroscience to give his patients the opportunity to succeed.
Good vision skills are a prerequisite for doing well in school because it's largely how we gather information. In fact, 80% of classroom learning is visual. So, what if an undetected vision problem is interfering with your child's learning potential? Studies show approximately 25 % of classroom children are affected by a functional vision disorder.
When a person experiences a traumatic brain injury, the results can be quite debilitating. Rehabilitation for the patient requires a multi-disciplinary team, most often including a neuro-optometrist. The majority of individuals recovering from traumatic brain injuries have some form of visual sensory and oculomotor dysfunction.
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Nadia Elnagdy
Apr 02, 2021
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He's better than the Mayo Clinic! I seriously cannot recommend Dr. Les enough. To make an incredibly long story short: I had symptoms appear out of nowhere and no doctor could figure it out. A year later, my vision suddenly doubled. It's a mystery to all involved and I end up at Mayo. They're finally able to give me a pseudo-diagnosis (unspecified unsteadiness and Convergence Insufficiency) but the exercises they give me to fix things did nothing and I was basically told that this was just my life now.
Months of suffering later, a desperate google search led me to Dr. Les and FINALLY I felt like
Months of suffering later, a desperate google search led me to Dr. Les and FINALLY I felt like
Kelli Coller
Jan 20, 2021
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Life Changing Experience! After many years of increasing anxiety while driving, I decided it was time to do something as it was affecting my ability to perform daily and necessary tasks. I completed a survey to see if my symptoms might be related to a misalignment of my eyes. Within hours of completing the survey, I was contacted by Dr. Alsterlund who immediately set up a phone consult to discuss my results. He decided that I was a likely candidate for this dysfunction and I am so glad I reached out. This is a specialty of Dr. Alsterlund. I am so grateful. After a thorough and comprehensive eye
Vincenza Clover
Dec 14, 2020
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I've seen many doctors in the pursuit of discovering what I was dealing with. I had dizzyness, a sense of constant imbalance, and spells of vertigo, nechaches, and most importantly anxiety, especially while driving or in large spaces. It was so confusing to understand where my symptoms where stemming from. I was told it was my ear, just anxiety, all in my head, the list goes on. Then one day in my search I came across the Term (Vertical Heterophoria.) Vertical heterophoria is a small misalignment of the eye which causes an array of symptoms, including the ones I had experienced. Even still i was
Barbara Tarrant
May 20, 2020
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Dr. Les is an exceptional developmental Optometrist. Through a vision evaluation when my child was 7 years old, Dr. Les determined he had retained primitive reflexes and needed vision therapy. My son received vision therapy from Dr. Les for 10 months. This improved my son's overall visual system. It allowed him to learn to read, do better in school and be more settled in his body. The evaluation also led Dr. Les to recommend an occupational therapist to be address my son's retained reflexes (something I'd never heard of before).
Vision therapy is hard work for a child and the parent who leads
Vision therapy is hard work for a child and the parent who leads
