Are you looking for a new career direction? Helping people see better is one of the more rewarding things you can do. This is an ideal position for someone wanting a mid life job change without the stress of large corporate retail businesses. A partial job description follows: Assisting patients at check in and check [...]
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Ten Steps To Make Your Child’s First Eye Exam A Good Experience
Categories: Childrens Eye Care
Your Child’s First Eye Exam Is your preschooler or kindergartner ready for their first eye exam? These are critical times to have eye check ups, and this is when you as a parent typically start to have concerns that your child can see his or her best. The onset of the school year brings in [...]
Laser Pointers and Eye Damage
Categories: Uncategorized
Parent Safety Alert! Teenagers May be Purchasing Eye Sight Damaging Laser Products Over the Internet The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found some unscrupulous Internet stores are selling laser products that are overpowered and can potentially cause eye damage and blindness if used in an improper manner. Some lasers approved as medical devices only [...]
Blindness Prevention and Treatment-Free Glaucoma Treatment
Categories: Cataracts, Eye Diseases, Eye Nutrition, Eye Vitamins, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, glaucoma, Macular Degeneration
The leading causes of blindness in the U.S are diabetic related eye complications, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. Cataracts are generally listed as the number one cause but this is somewhat misleading. Cataracts effect in excess of 20 million people but most cataracts are treatable with modern surgical techniques and artificial lens implants. The complication rate [...]
Glaucoma Genetic Testing
Categories: Eye Diseases, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, glaucoma, pimary open angle glaucoma, Uncategorized, Vision Insurance, Vision Service Plan -VSP
Click Here For Glaucoma Video Glaucoma is a complex multi-factorial disease. In plain English, that means it is not one disease and not caused by one factor only. Recent knowledge has made us acutely aware that eye pressure is not the determining factor in the diagnosis of glaucoma. When the pressure inside the eye was [...]
Eyecare Resources For The Unemployed
Categories: Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Vision Insurance
If you are desperately trying to find eyecare resources for your community for the new influx of unemployed and uninsured the National Eye Institute has published a helpful list: Financial Aid for Eye Care Many state and national resources regularly provide aid to people with vision problems. The National Eye Institute, which supports eye research, does [...]