Referrals from Optometrists / Ophthalmologists

 To My Fellow Optometrists:

Dr. Neufeld has been providing  office based vision therapy services in Calgary since 2003.  He takes  over a minimum of 50 hours of continuing education in optometric vision  therapy each year to enhance his knowledge and his services.  Calgary Vision Therapy had sent a survey  to local Optometrists inquiring about many  different perceptions of referring to a local colleague for specialty  services.  Many similar comments or responses came out of that survey.   There were concerns of potentially losing clients or having families of clients that are referred transferring their annual routine optometric care to our office.  There were concerns that if an eyeglass prescription was recommended that it would be filled at our primary care office where we had offered vision therapy services for several years,  and that the referred patient walks through an optical on the way to  sitting in the doctor's chair.  There were concerns about the amount of  time that your clients had to wait to receive an evaluation and also any  required treatment.

In 2010, Dr. Neufeld opened  Calgary Vision Therapy: Calgary's first and only exclusive Vision  Therapy office to address many of these concerns/responses.

All  eye examinations performed at and referred to Calgary Vision Therapy are ones that are  specifically looking into whether lenses, prisms or office based vision  therapy will help the individual who is in Dr. Neufeld's chair.   Therefore, after optometric vision therapy services are concluded, Dr.  Neufeld returns the patient back to your annual optometric care.  He  specifically wants his evaluations to be for evaluating individuals who  may benefit from his vision therapy services.

When you step through the doors at Calgary Vision Therapy, you will not see any eyeglass frames.  We do not sell prescription or non-prescription eyewear.  Dr. Neufeld does not fit contact lenses at Calgary Vision Therapy.   Dr. Neufeld will recommend that if a client requires prescription  eyewear or contact lenses, that he/she return to the referring  optometrists office and you can provide that required service.

We have a minimum of three vision therapists on staff at Calgary Vision Therapy.  We  offer Thursday evening and Saturday vision therapy sessions.   Consequently, we generally can begin the evaluation process within 2-6  weeks from the time of a referral.  This is significantly less than most  referral wait times we find for ophthalmological surgical care.  Since we have a minimum of three vision therapists, we can offer  many different times for office vision therapy.  The main determining  factor for wait time to start office based vision therapy services often  will be the patient's flexibility in their schedule.

We have strategically chosen  our location.  Our facility is over 2300 square feet... all dedicated  for the purposes of vision therapy services.  We felt we needed to be in a location relatively close to a major intersection such as Deerfoot Trail as we do have many clients who come weekly for vision therapy services from Southern Alberta locations such as Lethbridge and area,  from Eastern Alberta locations such as Hanna, from Northern Alberta  locations such as Red Deer, Western Alberta locations such as  Canmore, and from eastern British Columbia.  There is FREE parking at our facility.