Central Vision Opticians<\/a><\/strong>, was recognized as Children\u2019s Contact Lens Practice of the Year (2018) and the Technology Practice of the Year (2020). He has written about myopia for several professional and general publications, as well as appearing on podcasts and as a speaker on the topic.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 15, 2022 By Bhavin Shah, BSc (Hons) Optom, MCOptom, MBABO, MBCLA We have a lot to learn from people within the eye care industry and people outside the industry. Having a fresh perspective can help solve problems. My time in the eye care field began 25 years ago. While I started out working for a small independent group of practices, after a large corporation acquired it, I shifted my focus to another area of eye care \u2014 developmental and behavioral optometry. This gave me a much deeper understanding of our visual system and how to help make a more significant impact in my patients\u2019 lives.\u00a0 My journey with myopia management started not long after that. I heard about the theories of hyperopic retinal defocus and the use of low-dose atropine and multifocal contact lenses in 2010 from studies conducted in the Far East. Then, things became more personal when a pair of 12-year-old twins with convergence insufficiency came into my practice a few years later. I began treating the more symptomatic patient with vision therapy for six months. Though they both started with similar myopic refraction, the child being treated hardly progressed, while his twin progressed at -1.00D each year.\u00a0 I\u2019m always curious about learning why things happen \u2014 especially when there is a potential mystery. Although the few studies that have looked at training for binocular vision\/accommodation have not found a conclusive link between myopic progression, I feel that further investigation is required.\u00a0 This curiosity into the field of myopia management was piqued even further in 2015 when I was examining a 7-year-old child of a friend of mine. This child had progressed by over -1.00D in a year, and both child\u2019s parents were high myopes and were extremely worried about the high progression. I had been reading about the use of dual-focus contact lenses, and we had access to center distance multifocal lenses that would be replaced on a monthly basis. Although regulatory authorities have not approved the lenses for myopia management, I believed they could potentially satisfy some of the design characteristics that were shown in the early studies. At the very least, I could provide this patient with clear vision when participating in sports and other activities. After this successful fitting, this child had little myopic progression over the next year and a half.\u00a0 I kept up with this process over the next year, fitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":42618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2712],"tags":[3521,3522,460,41,1394,2878,3526,452,698,1067,3524,3523,3525,1584,2703,179,2550,751,1471],"yoast_head":"\n
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