Close to four million people in the US have glaucoma
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Questions For Your Eye Doctor
Categories: Common Eye Questions for Your Optometrist
We value your time so we try to explain what you need and want to know What follows is straight from the National Eye Institute. I never know if patients are getting too much information, not enough, or just nodding their heads and not understanding a word I am saying. It’s important and a reason [...]
Migraines and Brain Retina Damage
Categories: Flashes
According to recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Scher, Ann a study in Iceland has shown evidence that women who suffer from migraines with visual auras were twice as likely to have lesions (damaged areas) in the cerebellum later in life. The cerebellum is part of the lower brain that [...]
Out of This World Eyecare
Categories: Cataracts, Eye Diseases, Macular Degeneration
Fascinating information from out for this world on new directions in eyecare from the NEI: NEI Press Release NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH National Eye Institute For Immediate Release Thursday, January 8, 2009 From Outer Space to the Eye Clinic: New Cataract Early Detection Technique Patients and Astronauts Benefit from NEI-NASA Collaboration A compact fiber-optic probe [...]
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 [...]
Eyes Retina
Categories: Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Retina
I couldn’t help borrowing this picture. It is a beautiful example of the future of imaging in eyecare. While this is not an example of optical coherence tomography, it is a good example of the type of details we can expect in the future. Optical coherence tomography splits a laser into multiple wavelengths that interact [...]