AUGUST 2019
What Happens If I Do Nothing?
Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO
Chief Medical Editor
dwight.akerman@gmail.com
Myopia was once considered a simple refractive error with few, if any, long-term eye health consequences, but it is now recognized as one of the most significant causes of blindness worldwide. Unfortunately, eye care professionals and parents of myopic children often take a wait-and-see approach to myopia management. Myopia increases the risk of serious, sight-threatening complications. Often it is difficult to explain the co-morbidities and lifelong risks associated with myopia to a parent, especially those parents who are emmetropic.
Topical Atropine for Myopia Management: What Does the Latest Research Tell Us?
A network meta-analysis on myopia control found that use of atropine at different concentrations was significantly superior to other interventions.
How to Develop a Myopia Management Subspecialty Within a Primary Care Practice
The optometric community must recognize that an encounter with a child requiring myopia management has the potential to influence not only the child and his or her parents but also that network of family and friends. As such, the existence of a myopia subspecialty within a primary care practice is vital.
The Importance of Measuring Axial Length when Managing Childhood Myopia
There is a strong correlation between the amount of myopia and the length of the eye in all individuals, although the relationship between the two is not linear and not constant throughout childhood.
Practice Management
Latest Research Summaries
Myopia Management Tools
Myopia Calculator
The ‘Myopia Calculator’ is a web-based tool developed by Brien Holden Vision Institute Limited to support clinicians in communicating and educating...
Myopia Management Guidelines
The ‘Guidelines for Myopia Management’ developed by Brien Holden Vision Institute are easy-to-use, practical tools developed to help the busy eye care...
Videos & Podcasts
Practice Pearls in Myopia Management with Linda Chous, OD, and Pamela Lowe, OD
Linda Chous, OD, and Pamela Lowe, OD provide practice pearls in myopia management that you can integrate into your own practice.
Brien Holden Vision Institute Discussion, Part 1
Discussion with Judith Stern, BOptom, and Michael Morton, BOptom, of the Brien Holden Vision Institute, Part 1
Brien Holden Vision Institute Discussion, Part 2
Discussion with Judith Stern, BOptom, and Michael Morton, BOptom, of the Brien Holden Vision Institute, Part 2
Brien Holden Vision Institute Discussion, Part 3
Discussion with Judith Stern, BOptom, and Michael Morton, BOptom, of the Brien Holden Vision Institute, Part 3.
Continuing Education
The Business of Myopia – New Online Course Starting August 20
The Business of Myopia, the third course in the Brien Holden Vision Institute's Myopia Management Program will deliver to participants the business knowledge and...
Myopia Management ABO CE for Your Staff
Upon completion of this program, the participant should be able to: Understand the growing incidence of myopia and results of current research. Learn why controlling myopia in children is important for an optician to know. Know the acceptable ways used to control the progression of myopia.
How Environment and Genetics Give Rise to Myopia
More than half of the world’s population will be myopic by 2050. What factors are causing this epidemic?
By Erin Tomiyama, OD, and Kathryn...
Myopia Education Program
Find out why 98% of practitioners have changed the way they practice after completing the program.
The biggest innovation in myopia care since...
