Optics News

NEW ORLEANS – The College of Optometrists in Vision Development and the Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation Association issued a joint call-to-action at SECO for all health care professionals to consider the need for medical and/or functional optometric rehabilitation for patients who have suffered a traumatic brain injury due to stroke, tumor, aneurism, meningitis, cerebral palsy or other neurological conditions.

NEW ORLEANS – “We’re excited to be independent so we can focus on eye care,” Eric Bruno, Alcon’s general manager of U.S. Vision Care, said here at a company-sponsored press conference during SECO.

S. Barry Eiden, OD, FAAO, FSLS: Contact lens management of presbyopia is both rewarding and challenging at the same time. As with all contact lens cases we need to achieve the three key elements of success: optimized vision outcome, appropriate physiological response and comfortable wearing experience.

Brooks Alldredge, OD, FAAO: The first question to answer is how important it is to each individual patient to wear eyeglasses as little as possible after cataract surgery. If achieving spectacle freedom is not a goal or not desired or the extra cost is prohibitive, then I reassure those patients that their vision will be just as good as if they didn’t correct the astigmatism with surgery – they will simply need glasses to do so.

by Cathy Stern, OD, FCSO, FCOVD, FNORA

A study published in Optometry and Vision Science concluded that blue light filters are no more effective at reducing the symptoms of digital eyestrain than an equiluminant neutral density filter.

Low-concentration atropine eye drops showed efficacy in reducing myopia progression with no adverse effect on vision-related quality of life in a study at 1 year.

Bausch + Lomb introduced the Zen multifocal scleral lens for presbyopia.

Contamac announced the launch of Optimum Infinite, a gas permeable contact lens material with a higher combination of oxygen permeability and flexural modulus.

Researchers found that the development of myopic maculopathy in high myopia is associated with older age, higher myopic spherical equivalence and increased axial elongation.