According to MayoClinic.com, convergent eye occurs when your eyes do not turn inward properly while you are focusing on a nearby object. Adolescents and older children are most often diagnosed with convergence insufficiency. Positive fusional vergence, or PFV, allows eye doctors to assess convergence issues. This test requires you to read letters on an eye chart while looking through prism lenses. The eye doctor will note when you begin to have double vision. Once a diagnosis has been made, your eye doctor may recommend convergent-eye aiming exercises for increasing your eyes' convergence ability.
Pencil Push-ups
Pencil push-ups require you to focus on a small letter on the side of a pencil as you move it closer to the bridge of your nose, stopping the movement if you have double vision. The exercise is often done for 15 minutes a day, five or more days a week. Pencil push-ups may be repeated 100 or more times during a session, according to MayoClinic.com.
Computer Vision Therapy
Computer vision therapy allows you to use software to perform eye-aiming exercises on your computer. The software is designed specifically to improve convergence. Giving a print out of your results to your optometrist or ophthalmologist allows your eye doctor to monitor your progress.
Focal Flexibility Exercise
Begin by holding the index finger of one of your hands near the tip of your nose. Fix your gaze on your finger-tip, then move your hand away from your nose until your arm is fully extended. Bring your finger back to the tip of your nose, looking at the tip of your finger the entire time. Eye-exercises-for-good-vision.com recommends repeating the exercise 20 times.
