by Angela Fischels | Jun 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Cataract And Your Vision Health Cataracts can progressively occur due to the natural aging process. It can develop rapidly due to exposure to UV light, smoking, diabetes, eye injury, or the use of certain steroid medications. The National Eye Institute projects that...
by Angela Fischels | Jun 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Eye Safety And Fireworks June 2022 is Fireworks Safety Month, and Memorial Day 2022 was the initial kick-off for fireworks. The Fourth of July Holiday is just weeks away, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology wants the public to know that fireworks are not...
by Angela Fischels | May 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
What is Nearsightedness? Nearsightedness, Myopia, is the reverse of farsightedness. With your uncorrected natural vision, you have difficulty seeing far away. This occurs when the eyeball is too long, and when it is longer than normal the light cannot focus properly...
by Angela Fischels | May 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Healthy Vision In most cases, a person with 20/20 vision has “Healthy Vision”. An individual with 20/20 vision means that they can stand 20 feet from an eye chart and see what a “normal” human sees. A majority of people can see the chart...
by Angela Fischels | Apr 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
What Is Nondestructive Testing For Eye Diseases? Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non-destructive medical imaging technique that many optometrists use, and it does not destroy healthy tissues. OCT uses light waves to take cross-section pictures of your retina. ...
by Angela Fischels | Apr 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Sports And Eye Safety Approximately 100,000 people yearly are hurt by sports-related eye injuries. Many of these injuries, about 13,500, result in permanent vision loss. Approximately 90% of serious sports eye injuries are preventable. April 2022 is Sports Eye Safety...
