July 2019
Opportunities Abound for Proactive Myopia Care
Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO
Chief Medical Editor
dwight.akerman@gmail.com
During May 2019, Jobson Optical Research, sponsored by Essilor, polled more than 300 optometrists from the United States to learn more about their attitudes and behaviors regarding myopia management. The results are both encouraging and disappointing. While 62.5 percent of optometrists surveyed said their practices provide myopia management services, 37.5 percent said their practices do not offer myopia care for children.
Spectacles: Progressive Addition Multifocals/Executive Bifocals/Light Diffusion Technology
The use of the spectacle lenses for myopia management dates back to more than 30 years ago, when bifocal spectacle lenses prescribed to children with near-esophoria showed a reduction in myopia progression.
How to Explain Informed Consent to a Parent Without Sounding like a Lawyer
Controlling everything we do as doctors of optometry and everything our colleagues in allopathic and osteopathic medicine do is a legal and ethical framework called the Doctrine of Informed Consent.
Soft Contact Lens-based Myopia Management
The following article is intended to provide clinicians with the basics for prescribing soft CL-based myopia management, so clinicians can begin prescribing this potentially beneficial treatment.
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
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...
