Categories: The Light Side
An Eye Doctors New Niche-Third Eyes Several species have remnants or actual third eyes present. While they may not be showing up at the optometrists office for trifocals, it is an area of interest to vision scientists. A Third Eye Complete With a Cornea, Retina, Lens, and Rod Photoreceptors The tuatara is a lizard like [...]
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Picture of the week. This is an unidentified insect eye magnified over 800x by an electron microscope. It is an example of a compound eye, a primitive form where each sphere is a unit that is a cluster of photoreceptor light sensing cells. Imagine a small image for each sphere and you have the mosaic [...]
Categories: amblyopia, Eye Symptoms, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, lazy eye, Vision Conditions, vision related reading problems
Free treatment for lazy eye? Well free eye care is worth what it costs-but a simple eye drop prescription may be able to save you a thousand dollars or more in treatment fees. And that’s equivalent to a lot of free office visits. Forget the pirate patch, eye drops are the treatment of choice today [...]
Categories: Common Eye Questions for Your Optometrist, Dry Eyes, Eye Nutrition, Eye Symptoms, Eye Twitch, Eye Vitamins, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Vision Insurance, Vision Service Plan -VSP
Twitchy eye? Many people become concerned when they start having an eyelid that twitches intermittently or even constantly. This may occur for weeks, months, or even years. Typically it does not occur constantly and has been coming and going for a month or so when the patient finally show up at the eye doctors office concerned they have acquired a serious vision problem. Most of the time after a lengthy eye exam and detailed analysis an accurate diagnosis is made-benign eye twitch. Essentially that means the doctor has no idea what is causing your eye problem but has ruled out serious diseases
Categories: double vision, Eye Diseases, Eye Symptoms, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Headaches, Pseudotumor Cerebri, Vision Conditions, Vision Service Plan -VSP
Pseudotumor cerebri is an eye condition that can be confused with a brain tumor due to swelling of the optic nerve. Like a brain tumor, the fluid inside the skull that cushions the brain and flows around the spinal column develops elevated pressure. It is also referred to as Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension or Benign Intracranial [...]
Categories: binocular vision, double vision, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Uncategorized, Vision Service Plan -VSP
Traumatic Brain Injuries are common causes of undiagnosed vision symptoms. The brain is cushioned in a compartment but sudden changes in velocity can cause it to move slightly and cause axonal shearing (minute tearing of the nerves in the brain). People who have been in accidents, especially car accidents, often find their visual system seems [...]