When you have a busy day and patients scheduled back to back, it’s easy to get flustered at things that are out of the ordinary. If you work in private practice or retail optometry, most of the patients you see on a daily basis are relatively straightforward. It’s easy to get in the groove of seeing young, healthy and straightforward patients on a daily basis, and it’s also easy to become nervous when things get a little more complicated, such as kids, elderly, and patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This is where you have to sometimes get creative and possibly prioritize and split ..read more

Performing exams for patients with Autism can vary in level of difficulty. Understanding what to do with the data collected during the exam can also be tricky. In this post, we will talk about nuances when prescribing spectacles for patients with autism spectrum disorder ..read more

  Patients often come in wearing or asking about office glasses, computer lenses, or workspace lenses. Despite their names, these products are all referring to usually one thing: the near variable focus progressive. Living in the age of multiple working distances, the usual reading glasses or standard progressives don't really give patients the flexibility to toggle between multiple working distances, which has become the norm ..read more

With the rapid advancements in the contact lens realm, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with the latest and greatest technology when it comes to presbyopic contact lenses. There are so many different designs of contact lenses on the market, and with the multifocal contact lens designs, each lens has a different fit pattern, making it difficult for practitioners to keep up ..read more

There is so much information and misinformation regarding digital eye strain across the internet, magazines and television. We previously discussed the relevance of blue light blocking lenses in digital eye strain and computer vision syndrome. Though patients are constantly looking for resources to help them with the issues that they deal with every day, it’s sometimes tough to convince them that they don’t need to spend money on a tool, rather spend a little bit of time each day taking care of their eye muscles ..read more

Presbyopia is one of the most prevalent conditions in the world, but options for its treatment have been the same for years. From reading glasses to progressive lenses to monovision and multifocal contact lenses, we have not had any significant advancements since the development of the toric multifocal soft contact lens. But now, these options have a new competitor ..read more

Concerns about blue light exposure have been increasing within the past few years. Patients in my clinic ask me about blue light blocking lenses or tell me they wear blue light blocking lenses every single day. Interest in this topic has primarily been caused by the rise of marketing companies targeting people using electronic devices, which is basically everyone ..read more

By the time you’re actively studying for NBEO® Part 1, you’ve probably already figured out the study methods that work best for you and the ones that don’t. Since the pool of information is a lot larger than standard course examinations, you may want to consider changing things up in order to study more effectively. The most effective strategy I’ve encountered for this type of exam is called Active Recall ..read more

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