Wish you didn't have to wear your daily or monthly contact lenses? Orthokeratology can sharpen your vision.
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April Newsletter: Tired of Contacts? Consider Orthokeratology.
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April Newsletter: Corneal Abrasion Could Lead to Infection. See Your Eye Doctor!
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Has something scratched your eye? A visit to the eye doctor could help you avoid a serious infection.
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March Newsletter: Are Your Eyes Getting Enough Vitamin D?
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Not getting enough of a key vitamin might increase your risk of several eye diseases.
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March Newsletter: Is Your Prescription Up to Date? What You Need to Know about When and Why You should See Your Optometrist
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Not sure when you need to see the eye doctor?
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Saccadic Fixators
Category: Vision Therapy Programs
This entails a wall-mounted square board with a starburst design. Along the various striations of the starburst are lighted buttons. As the buttons light up, the patient works quickly to see how many of these lit buttons they can push before they go out. The key is to keep the head still. Peripheral
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Patches
Category: Vision Therapy Programs
Eye patches are used to strengthen muscle control in weak eyes. By placing a patch over the strong eye, the weaker eye is forced to do the heavy lifting. While it may be uncomfortable for the patient at first, the muscle controlling the weaker eye will become tougher and more resilient. This will allow
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Rotation Trainers
Category: Vision Therapy Programs
Rotation trainers consist of a disk – with various designs – that is attached to a rod-like base. As the disk rotates, the patient is asked to perform tasks that are designed to test and enhance eye-hand coordination, space awareness, perceptual awareness and visual acuity.
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Computer Software
Category: Vision Therapy Programs
Computer aided vision therapy consists of a software package designed to enhance eye tracking skills, visual thinking, processing skills and binocular vision skills. Eye teaming, focusing and tracking are not optical in nature, and problems in these areas are the result of poor eye muscles. Specialized
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Prisms
Category: Vision Therapy Programs
A prism has the same cross-section across the entire length of its shape. When used in eyeglasses, they often correct abnormalities associated with nearsightedness, farsightedness and double vision. Eyeglasses, or corrective lenses, reduce or increase the size of the image based on the eyes’ ability
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February Newsletter: Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness Month
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Do you know how age-related macular degeneration could affect your vision?
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February Newsletter: Why Dry Eye Is So Difficult to Treat
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Are dry eyes a frequent problem? Try these tips.
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January Newsletter: How to Tell if You Have Macular Degeneration
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Do you know the symptoms that may mean you have macular degeneration?
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January Newsletter: Glaucoma FAQs
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Got a few questions about glaucoma?
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December Newsletter: Don't Over-Indulge this Holiday Season - Your Eyes Will Thank You
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Could changing your holiday eating habits help you protect your vision?
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December Newsletter: Delicious Recipies that Are Healthy for Your Eyes
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Protect your vision with eye-healthy recipes.
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November Newsletter: 5 signs that could be caused by diabetic retinopathy
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These vision problems could spell trouble if you have diabetes.
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November Newsletter: Diabetic eye disease awareness month
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Do you know how diabetic eye diseases can affect your vision?
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Your Blurry Vision Could Be Caused by Astigmatism
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Wondering why your vision is blurry? A vision problem called astigmatism may be to blame.
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Dry Eyes? Blepharitis Could Be to Blame
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Are your eyes dry and uncomfortable? You may have blepharitis.
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Protect Your Eyes for Life: Healthy Aging Month
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Do you know how to keep your eyes healthy as you grow older?
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Ensure Your Child's Eyes Are Ready to Go Back to School
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Are your child's eyes up to the challenge of another school year?
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Vision Loss and Mental Health
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Feeling depressed after vision loss?
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Treatment Options for Presbyopia
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Over 40 and finding it hard to see close-up? One of these presbyopia treatment options could improve your vision.
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Summertime Allergies and Your Eyes
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Do you know how to treat your summertime eye allergy symptoms?
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Signs You May Have Macular Degeneration
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Could changes in your central vision be caused by macular degeneration?
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Glaucoma and You: The Importance of Eye Exams
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Want to avoid vision loss due to glaucoma? Schedule a visit with the eye doctor.
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Important Healthy Eye Habits for Kids
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Want to keep your kids' eyes as healthy as possible? Try these tips.
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Healthy Vision Month
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Get ready for Healthy Vision Month by upgrading your vision habits.
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Presbyopia eye drops
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Would you like to stop squinting when you look at close objects? A new kind of eyedrops can improve presbyopia, an age-related vision problem.
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Dry Eye
Category: Eye Symptoms
Sometimes your eyes don’t make enough tears or the tears evaporate too fast because they don’t have the right amount of compounds in them. This is called dry eye. Up to 5% of Americans complain of some form of dry eye. Individuals who wear contact lenses or have undergone LASIK or other types of
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Subconjunctival Hemorrhage
Category: Common Eye Conditions, Changes in Appearance
Similar to a bruise under the skin, a subconjunctival hemorrhage happens when a small blood vessel located between the sclera (white portion of an eye) and the conjunctiva (lining on the surface of an eye) breaks and covers the sclera with blood. Unlike broken blood vessels located under the skin which
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Decorative (Plano) Contact Lenses
Category: Contact Lenses
Colored contact lenses allow you to temporarily change your eye color whether or not you need to correct impaired vision. In this way, you can create a more subtle eye appearance, wear a crazy design for special occasions, or just enjoy a new eye color. Will Colored Contacts Change the Way I See? Yes,
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Wandering Eye
Category: Pediatric Vision
A wandering eye is a type of eye condition known as strabismus or tropia, and it may be caused by damage to the retina or muscles that control the eye, stroke or brain injury, or an uncorrected refractive error like farsightedness. With a wandering eye, one eye deviates or wanders in a different direction
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Reading and Writing
Category: Pediatric Vision
For many adults, reading and writing come so naturally that they seem almost effortless. However, reading and writing are actually complicated skills that take significant effort to learn. For example, reading involves recognizing letters, associating letter combinations with their corresponding sounds,
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Lazy Eye
Category: Pediatric Vision
Lazy eye, also referred to as amblyopia, is a condition that develops in infancy or early childhood, and it typically starts when the focus in one eye is more enhanced than the other. The eye with less focus might be impaired due to a significant amount of farsightedness or astigmatism, or something
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