Janet Kohtz, OD

A traumatic brain injury, due to a car accident, affected my visual system. I saw numerous eye doctors before one doctor correctly diagnosed me with a TBI. When that doctor realized I needed more help than she was capable of providing, she recommended I travel from the state of Washington to Connecticut to see Dr. Padula, who is a genius in his field. I met Dr. Spurling while she was training with Dr. Padula. I now travel to Riverside, California for treatment with Dr. Spurling.
I am so grateful for the amount of time Dr. Spurling is willing to devote to my eye exams. It’s not easy dealing with people who have visual difficulties — we don’t often make the best patients! She goes to great lengths to understand what my visual needs are so she can correctly prescribe glasses based on those needs. I started out wearing 9 different pairs of glasses and am now down to 5 pairs. Her goal is to get me into 2 pairs of glasses and I am confident she will get me to that point. I’m functioning much better and life isn’t near as difficult since I started vision therapy and wearing prism glasses.
Good health is extremely important to me — when I need a doctor, I want the best medical treatment. Dr. Spurling is one of those rare doctors who knows what questions to ask and how to listen. She has an innate sensitivity and perceptiveness that produces positive results for her patients. What I truly appreciate is how she can explain things to me in a manner that I can understand. I am a more willing participant in my journey to get well when I understand the hows and whys.

My husband’s vision is continuing to improve. He has useful vision in both eyes now. We still have a ways to go, and it will take time, but the change in his posture and gait are amazing. He literally walks like a man ten years younger than when we started this process.

I found the attentiveness and costumer service here to be quite disappointing. Before my appointment I received two phone calls. One from Dr. Kohtz herself. Trying to get me to take my son in earlier than his scheduled appointment time, I’m guessing because it was Friday afternoon. Once we were in there she was not at all friendly and was very impatient with him. She was almost mean in the way she was explaining what his diagnosis was. Needless to say, we will never be going back there.

I have been seeing Dr Kohtz for several years, my son started vision therapy when he was in 2^nd grade.Dr.Kohtz and Dr. Spurling are a wealth of knowledge if you are willing to listen. They really care about their patients well being and vision health.

A few months ago I began getting ocular migraines Dr. Spulring and Dr. Kohtz worked as a fantastic team and thanks to them I not only have fewer tensions headaches brought on by reading, I have not had a single ocular migraine. I won’t ever trust anyone else with my eyes.

This review is for Dr. April Spurling. In addition to seeing Dr. Kohtz, I’ve seen Dr. Spurling on a number of occasions, and finally getting around to posting a review of my experiences with her.
During our appointments, I’ve never felt rushed, and she really took her time with me. Due to a fairly recent physical injury to my leg, I’ve experienced changed in my balance as a result. Dr. Spurling was able to reduce my risk of falling through the use of lenses and prisms. I feel more much more stable now as a result. I didn’t realize how much vision could impact my balance.
She’s a very capable doctor, kind, compassionate, and genuinely cared that I obtained a very good outcome — which she definitely achieved. I would highly recommend Dr. Spurling to anyone, not just those that are dealing with an injury.

I was having a lot of flashing and lighting bolt type lights in my vision so I went to RMC. The Dr. there was horribly rude and blew me off without an explanation. So I went to Dr. Kohtz for a second opinion. I started out with her intern who said they were probably ocular migraines and nothing to worry about. Then Dr. Kohtz came in to see how the exam was going. As soon as she heard my description of the lights she told me I needed to see a retina specialist to be on the safe side. She called and got me in to see one the next day. It turns out I had holes in my retina. Thank goodness Dr. Kohtz was thorough and didn’t just ignore my issue like the other Doctor. She is definitely blunt and can come off as rude, but I’d rather have a «cold» Doctor that knows what they are doing than a nice Doctor that has no clue. I will be going back and taking my kids.

I took my daughter to see Dr Kohtz and Dr Spurling today; both doctors were very thorough and patient with her (and my 3 year old son). Dr Spurling was able to determine a visual midline shift issue with my 3 year old just by watching him walk around the office. I did not have an appointment for him but she examined him anyway and assured me that his clumsiness was not just him being a boy and that prisms would help calm him calm down and balance his whole body so he wouldn’t fall as much.
My daughter has had prisms for about a year now, prescribed by Dr Kohtz. She is calmer, more attentive and focused, and stands upright rather than hunched forward. Her vision has significantly improved since our last visit and needed a new prescription. Dr Kohtz has a large selection of frames to choose from and both kids were able to select frames that fit correctly, looked good for their face shape and are stylish.
Both doctors take a more natural, holistic approach to over-​all health and believe that corrective lenses/​prisms are a part of whole body wellness.
I’ve read some of the negative Unilocal reviews and have not had the same experience. However! If I had, I would still go to Dr Kothz and Dr Spurling because they are the best at diagnosis’s and prescriptions this side of the Mississippi. Otherwise you’d need to travel to Connecticut for similar treatment.

Dr. Khotz is so great at what she does! She really took great care of me! They also have a lot of frames to chose from! The office is nice and clean and all of the employees there made me feel like a welcomed customer! I will be definitely be going back here to get my eyes checked out! I have recommended several of my friends and I will be taking my husband there as well. Oh and they also have great deals on frames! :)

I want to warn… beg people to not give this lady, «dr». Kohtz business. I took my 4 year old today and I was BLOWN away by how cold, rude, sarcastic, short she was with me. I came in with a Rx from my sons pediatric opthamologist from Loma Linda and she wanted to completely over ride and change the Rx stating it was all wrong and only after a 10 min assessment of my sons eyes/​vision.
My son has mild CP and she claimed that her Rx would «fix» his toe walking. And that the doctors at Loma Linda had it all wrong. (Even tho they have been seeing him for 4 years).
I felt bullied into having an exam done on my son and then a few hours later she personally called to ask I could send her a co payment. I said absolutely not and she said ok then we’ll drop everything. I couldn’t have agreed more.
I felt so sorry for the people that work for her in that office.
I would just ask that if you are considering taking your child here that you would think again. I immediately called my sons regular eye doctor at Loma Linda and she advised me to take the Rx to get filled else where; that this lady is practicing a school of thought that is highly controversial. Ask yourself 1. Why dont insurances pay for visual therapy? Then check out some websites and read all the disclaimers. Be careful when she asks for 150.00 for a session. And then ask yourself if she really cares for the well being of your child or just her wallet. I’m sorry to write such a poor report but I don’t want another family to have I experience what I did and then also loose out on a ton of money because of what she’s claiming to do to help your child. I recommend taking you child to a MD not an OD. There are only 4 pediatric ophthalmologist from here to la to Arizona. Research and find the nearest one to you.

I’ve been coming to Dr Kohtz for 15 years and have been extremely pleased. Before I found her my eyesight was getting a little worse each year but now it has stayed the same. My daughter did eye therapy with them and lessened her prescription dramatically. I couldn’t be happier with her work.

OMG. Why didnt i Read the previous review on this lady! My husband and i changed insurances and were referred to this lady. 1^st. She never introduced herself. 2^nd she had an intern do her job which took 30 minutes of looking into my eyes loooongest eye dr appt ever!!! My husband was in the other chair next door and she never introduced herself to him either. She was very rude. Never ever ever will i give this lady business. Check out my other review for the nicest sweetest eye dr i will be going back to my old eye dr and pay cash.

UPDATE — So I went back for a «recheck» today with the doctor. You would think she would look at my eyes and maybe test the again being that her intern did it before. NOPE. She first said the prescription was off I just need a stronger prescription so she was going to write a stronger one. Then I told her that I could see better in my old ones that were lower prescription then these new ones so she just puts them on her machine to check thier prescription and says they are less, so she will just prescribe my old prescription. UNBELIEVABLE! The point of going to the eye doctor is to get your eyes EVALUATED CORRECTLY. Luckily I called my insurance and they are going to reverse everything, got me my money back from this place so I can go see a real eye doctor that actually does thier job and dosent treat clients like crap… AVOID AVOID AVOID this place!