1. Stop smoking: Any smoke that gets into your body, including exhaust, introduces trillions of free radicals, aggressive molecules that are capable of damaging or destroying your cells. Your retina and your macula are particularly sensitive to free radicals because their high exposure to light already means that their cells experience permanent wear. Don’t ...Continue Reading
DrPatch’s orthoptic products at Topcon Canada
DrPatch is happy to announce to eye care professionals that our lines of orthoptic eye patch products are now available all over Canada trough the distributor Topcon, the leading supplier of ophthalmic equipment in Canada. Contact them to know more about our partnership : 1-800-361-3515 ...Continue Reading
Could common visual problems be missed on a ‘school screening’?
Children with poor vision often find it hard to focus on their work, and may be misdiagnosed as having a learning disability or bad behaviour. This video shows a visual experiment where common visual problems known to affect learning in kids are simulated in 4 adult teachers, and their experience and reaction are discussed. ...Continue Reading
Overlooking our vision | Cameron McCrodan
The presentation was at a TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Cameron McCrodan optometrist, explains that they are many aspects of sight that are simply overlooked and they may result in a massive impact on our quality of life. ...Continue Reading
Vision Therapy and Attention Deficit Disorder
Doctor Leonard Press, from New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians, explains how some kids are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) but may simply have vision problems. Watch this video and see how Vision Therapy could help your child. ...Continue Reading
Do eye exercices really work?
There is a lot of controversies about exercises for the eyes to improve vision. Actually, most people don't do those eye exercises. The important things are practices of seeing with more presence and receptivity. In this video, Roberto Kaplan explains his Energetic EyeHealing non-exercise approaches. ...Continue Reading
Free eye exercises for lazy eye
The reason we wear an eye patch when we have a lazy eye is to exercise it by preventing us to rely on the other eye to see. It's important to remember that we are patching to deliberately train the eye. Of course, patching is good, however we can choose to become proactive about this and use other tools to support the patching treatment. 3 ...Continue Reading
North! Sue Barry on “Place Blindness”
Susan Barry (aka Stereo Sue) talks about being "place blind," a disability related to face-blindness, as Dr. Sacks discusses in his new book, THE MIND'S EYE. "I blame my poor navigational sense in large part on my vision. Up until age 48, I was cross-eyed and focused on only what was close and center. I rarely took in the visual periphery, never ...Continue Reading
Eye exercise for amblyopia
Eye exercise for amblyopia. Close your good eye and look at these images with the lazy eye. ...Continue Reading
Lazy eye exercise
Try this lazy eye exercise and let me know if it works for you! ● Cover your healthy eye. ● 2-3 feet distance from the screen. ● Full screen display... and follow the red dot with the lazy eye! ...Continue Reading
