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 [...]
Tag Archives: Family
Sports Eye Injury Prevention
Categories: sports vision
Preventable blindness occurs all too often from sports injuries. Most sports related eye injuries in children can be prevented with the appropriate form of protective eyewear. Regular eye glasses are inadequate, safety frames and lenses such as rec specs with side shields, goggles, eye guards and other forms of protection are required. Polycarbonate lenses are [...]
Eye Injuries 4th of July
Categories: Uncategorized
Approximately 6,000 eye injuries will occur this 4th of July from fireworks. Like most questionable activities, testosterone seems to yield a high prevalence of these injuries occurring in young male teenagers. Unfortunately, teenage girls frequently are in the immediate vicinity opf teenage boys for unknown reasons,and they often suffer collateral damage. Firecrackers, bottle rockets, rockets, [...]
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 [...]
Genetic Eye Disease Testing Aids Optometrists
Categories: Eye Diseases, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Vision Insurance, Vision Service Plan -VSP
Research on eye genes that cause or predispose individual to eye disease is a fast growing area which will probably find it’s way into your eye doctors office in the next 5-10 years. Most genetic tests are not perfect in the sense they are not diagnostic of an eye disease, but they frequently tell optometrists [...]
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 [...]