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What Parents Need to Know About Sports Eye Safety
As parents of a student athlete, you try to do all the right things to protect your kids — ensuring they wear helmets, shin guards, football pads, batting helmets, mouth guards, knee braces, wrist stabilizers, and a myriad of other devices that protect your...
The Smart Student’s Guide to Eye-Friendly Study Habits
It’s back-to-school season! Time to purchase laptops, tablets, backpacks, notebooks, and pens. It takes a lot of planning and preparation for your student to step into another year of focus, growth, and discovery in the classroom. But wait -- are you forgetting something? A successful year starts with good vision, and good vision starts with a comprehensive eye exam to test for any vision...
8 Ways To Protect Your Gift of Sight This Season
Optometrists often receive “eye-themed” cards and gifts for holidays and birthdays — and we love it. In December, we almost always get something that mentions the movie A Christmas Story. You may remember the film – it’s the one where...
Why It’s Time To Check Your Flex Spending Account Balance
Check your calendar: We’ll welcome 2023 in just a few short weeks. It’s time to ask yourself two questions: What do you need to get done before the end of December? What action steps can you take now to make your new year better? It’s Time To Use...
What is Diabetic Retinopathy?
The US Centers for Disease Control estimate that there are 37.3 million Americans living with diabetes. That’s about 10% of our nation’s population! What’s worse: About one in five of those people are not aware that they have this dangerous chronic...
How Does Diabetes Impact Your Eyes?
It’s November: Time to shine a light on how diabetes impacts your eyes during Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness Month. Did you know that diabetes often affects a patient’s vision? And that uncontrolled diabetes is a top cause of blindness for people aged 74...
What are Eye Floaters?
What are Eye Floaters? If you haven’t yet experienced floaters in the eye, it’s understandable that you may be puzzled about what they are and what they look like. However, as you age, floaters become more common. You will get used to seeing an oddly...
Why Retinal Detachment is an Eyecare Emergency
Why Retinal Detachment is an Eyecare Emergency Your retina is the extremely light-sensitive nerve tissue at the back of your eye that enables your eye to focus and see. The retina captures and processes incoming light and images, then passes that information to the...