Need another reason to improve your diet? A deficiency of this vitamin could increase your risk of vision problems.
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November Newsletter: The Importance of Vitamin A for Your Eyes
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November Newsletter: Are Hearing Loss and Vision Loss Related?
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October Newsletter: The Advantages of Prescription Sunglasses
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October Newsletter: What Are Ocular Migraines and How Can They Be Prevented?
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Stress and Vision
Category: Protecting Your Eyes
Did you know that your eyes are an extension of your brain? There are six muscles connected to each eye, and they receive signals from the brain. These signals direct the eyes movements and, thus, control their ability to focus. When you are stressed, your brain goes through a number of changes and signals
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Pain Management
Category: Protecting Your Eyes
We take a lot of aspects of our vision for granted. We expect to see nearby and faraway objects clearly, even if we require our eye care provider to prescribe eyeglasses or contact lenses to do so. A huge degree of the information we take in about our world and our surroundings takes place visually,
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Nutrition for Eye Health
Category: Protecting Your Eyes
Eating right is essential for keeping your body healthy. This is as true for your eyes as it is for your heart. A diet that is rich in fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and is low in saturated fat, can reduce your risk of heart disease. This will also keep your arteries healthy, so they can
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Lifestyle Practices for Eye Health
Category: Protecting Your Eyes
Protecting your eyesight is an important part of staying healthy overall. Maintaining sound eye health will also help you preserve your quality of life as you age. To keep your eyes as healthy as possible, follow these simple lifestyle practices. Get regular eye exams. Some eye problems — including
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Glare and Halos
Category: Vision Problems
Glare and halos are both eye symptoms that some people experience around bright lights. Halos show up as bright circles around a light source. Glare is light that interferes with your vision, making it difficult to see or sometimes making your eyes water. These symptoms can show up at any time of the
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UV Radiation and Your Eyes
Category: Protecting Your Eyes
Optometry warnings about the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation on our eyes have not yet reached the degree of public awareness of that of skin damage. Yet, the sun can be just as damaging upon our eyes with unprotected exposure. Short-term exposure to very bright sunlight can result in a type
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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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Pediatric Ophthalmology
Category: Pediatric Vision
Ophthalmology addresses the physiology, anatomy and diseases of the eyes. Pediatric ophthalmology focuses on the eyes of children. Pediatric ophthalmologists examine children’s eyes to see if they need corrective lenses or other treatments to improve their vision. Training for Pediatric Ophthalmologists Pediatric
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September Newsletter: Can Contact Lenses Protect Your Eyes from UV Rays?
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September Newsletter: How Your Environment Affects Your Eyewear Choice
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August Newsletter: What Is Swimmer's Eye and How Can It Be Prevented?
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August Newsletter: The Benefits of Scleral Contact Lenses
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July Newsletter: Can Eye Exams Detect Diabetes?
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July Newsletter: Soft vs. Hard Contacts: Pros and Cons
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June Newsletter: The Importance of Eye Exams for Kids
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June Newsletter: Can Colored Contacts Help with Vision?
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Do you suffer from glare, eyestrain or color blindness? Wearing special contact lenses could help.
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May Newsletter: All about Floaters
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May Newsletter: What Flashes May Mean about Your Eye Health
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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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April Newsletter: Tired of Contacts? Consider Orthokeratology.
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Wish you didn't have to wear your daily or monthly contact lenses? Orthokeratology can sharpen your vision.
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March Newsletter: Are Your Eyes Getting Enough Vitamin D?
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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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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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February Newsletter: Why Dry Eye Is So Difficult to Treat
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January Newsletter: How to Tell if You Have Macular Degeneration
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January Newsletter: Glaucoma FAQs
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