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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Stress and Vision
Category: Protecting Your Eyes
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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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September Newsletter: How Is Diplopia Diagnosed and Treated?
Category: Newsletters
Seeing double? Vision therapy could improve your vision.
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August Newsletter: Is Vision Therapy an Effective Treatment for Amblyopia?
Category: Newsletters
Do you or your child have lazy eye? Vision therapy could help.
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July Newsletter: Can Vision Therapy Help with Post-Concussion Symptoms?
Category: Newsletters
Vision therapy could offer the answer to your concussion symptoms.
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June Newsletter: The Effects of Blue Light on the Eyes
Category: Newsletters
Do you know how blue light affects your eyes?
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May Newsletter: Eye Movement Disorders and Your Child: What Can Be Done
Category: Newsletters
Is an eye movement disorder holding your child back academically or socially?
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April Newsletter: Struggling with Strabismus? Vision Therapy Can Help.
Category: Newsletters
Do you have strabismus (crossed eyes)? Vision therapy could help you improve your vision.
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March Newsletter: The 20-20-20 Rule Can Help Prevent Digital Eye Strain
Category: Newsletters
Suffering from digital eyestrain? This simple rule can help.
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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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