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8.4KUncategorizedEnvironment, Genetics & Myopia – COPE 2 Hours
More than half of the world’s population will be myopic by 2050. What factors are causing this epidemic?
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8.6KClinicalOvernight Orthokeratology for Myopia: What Does the Evidence Say?
No one treatment is 100% effective at slowing the rate of myopia progression.
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5.1KClinicalFitting Orthokeratology into a Primary Care Practice
While this is still a work-in-progress, I’d like to propose a blueprint.
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3.4KEditor’s PerspectiveFocus On What We Know, Not What We Don’t Know
While we have much to learn about myopia management in children and teenagers, we already know so much.
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4.7KFinancialHow to Incorporate Myopia Management into a Primary Care Practice
June 3, 2019 By Gary Gerber, OD Co-founder, Treehouse Eyes Vision Therapy (VT) works great when the right therapy is prescribed correctly...
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Implementation
Keys to Remember as You Build a Myopia Management Specialty
Here’s how my pediatrics-only practice, which is part of Children's Mercy Hospital of Kansas City, Mo., has grown our myopia management services.
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Clinical
Gauging Success in Myopia Management
One of the key gaps in putting myopia management into practice is how to gauge success in your strategy.
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Binocular Vision
Kids, Contact Lenses, Dry Eye and Binocular Vision
A study investigating the relationship between contact lens-induced dry eye symptoms and BV disorders found a significant correlation between severity of symptoms...
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Clinical
Why Kids Don’t Wear Prescribed Glasses–and How to Get Them To
Pediatric patients don’t always wear the glasses the doctor prescribes, and it’s not just because they are children. Reasons for noncompliance can...
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4.3KEpidemiologyThe Myopia Management Market
April 12, 2019 By Richard Edlow, OD Review of Optometric Business, December 2018 There is mounting evidence that the prevalence of myopia,...
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4.9KFinancialPractice Success Strategies: 12 Actions to Create a Myopia Management Specialty
April 12, 2019 By Nicholas Despotidis, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, FIAO Review of Optometric Business, December 2018 Achieving success in myopia management requires...
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5.7KEnvironment & LifestyleMyopia and Use of Electronic Devices
The prevalence of handheld electronic devices that children and teenagers use has grown exponentially.
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Clinical
Myopia Treatments: How to Choose and When to Use?
Effective management in children and young adults may require different interventions. Learn which works best for your case.
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Implementation
Bring Myopia Management to the Foreground
Optometrists are no strangers to myopia. In fact, maybe we have become too comfortable with treating this condition, flipping on autopilot mode...
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Clinical
Visual Impairment and Blindness from Myopic Macular Degeneration Predicted to Rise Significantly
Many people, especially parents, believe that myopia is an inconvenience that merely requires refractive correction with spectacles, contact lenses, or surgery. Unfortunately,...
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Clinical
Myopia Increases the Risk of Serious, Sight-Threatening Eye Disease
It is the responsibility of every optometrist to educate parents, children and adult patients about the health risks associated with myopia and...