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Sports and Your Vision

February 17, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Is something holding you back from improving your golf score? Does your child always seem to be just a couple steps short from the soccer ball? Vision, just like endurance and strength, is an essential component of how well you compete.

There is much more to vision than just seeing clearly. Your vision is composed of many interrelated skills that can affect how well you play your sport.

All sports have different visual demands. Talking to your optometrist about the sports and activities you participate in is an important part of your eye exam. Knowing this about you, your doctor can assess your unique visual system and recommend the proper eyeglasses or contact lenses to maximize your visual skills for your specific sport.

For those of you who play high-risk sports, the proper eye protection should also be of concern. Thousands of children and adults suffer sports-related eye injuries each year. Nearly all of these injuries can be prevented by wearing the proper protective eyewear. Especially when playing sports outdoors, appropriate sunglasses are a must. When it comes to sunglasses, sport-specific designs may even help you improve your game.

Filed Under: Adults, Children, Eye care, polarized lenses, Sports, UV Protection Tagged With: eye exam, polarized lenses, protective eyewear, sport-related injury to eyes, sunglasses

Latisse for Longer Eyelashes: Is It Safe for Your Eyes?

February 14, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Today longer eyelashes are desired by many women. Cosmetics such as mascara, eye shadow and eye liners are all used to draw attention to a woman’s eyes. Now, thanks to Latisse women may be able to grow longer, fuller eye lashes within weeks.

You have probably heard about Latisse, the eyelash grower that’s been on the market since it was FDA approved in December of 2008. You might be wondering if it’s safe for your eyes. How do you use it? And does it really work?

Latisse is actually a version of a glaucoma drug in eye drop form called bimatoprost in use since FDA approved it in 2001. Eye doctors and their glaucoma patients noticed the hair growth side effect, with longer, thicker eyelashes appearing over time.

Celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy and Mandy Moore have reportedly used Latisse, and its advertising spokespeople have included Brooke Shields and Claire Danes. Recently, Christina Hendricks, star of Mad Men, signed on to promote the product in conjunction with a charity fundraising campaign called the Latisse Wishes Challenge.

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Filed Under: Adults, Eye care, Eyelash growth, Latisse Tagged With: allegies, Latisse, longer eyelashes, side effects, vision problems

Process A Negative Image With Your Eyes And Brain!

February 10, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Here’s something that’ll blow your mind…..stare at the colored dots on her nose for 30 seconds,then quickly look at a white wall or ceiling (or anything pure white) and start blinking rapidly. Congratulations, you just processed a negative with your brain!

An afterimage or ghost image or image burn-in is an optical illusion that refers to an image continuing to appear in one’s vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased.

Filed Under: Adults, Children, Fun Stuff Tagged With: brain power, eyes & brain work together, Fun Stuff, negative to positive image, processing negative images

The Journey Of A Hoya Lens

February 7, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Ever wonder what goes into making your new lenses? This video shows us from start to finish the process of bringing your frame and lenses together. Who would have thought glasses were this high-tech!

Filed Under: Hoya Lenses, Lens Trends! Tagged With: frames and lenses, high tech lenses, Hoya Free-Form, Hoya lenses, personalized glasses, precision lenses

Sassy and Unique!

February 3, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Beth loves her current glasses but was in the mood for a different look.
This gorgeous, semi-rimless Alain Mikli was the first frame we tried on her. After trying on a few other options, we knew this pair was made for her. Alain Mikli is known not only for unique designs and colors, but also for the hand made quality of their frames. We should also mention that Beth was a blonde when she ordered the frame, and a brunette when she picked them up. The neutral colors in this frame really look amazing with either hair color. She is wearing a progressive lens with an anti-reflective coating. Since this is a semi-rimless frame, we want the lenses to look as invisible as possible. The anti-reflective coating helps to achieve this, along with reducing reflections from nighttime driving and computer work.

Looking good, Beth! Thanks for sharing!

Beth is wearing Alain Mikli A0407 in color 08

Filed Under: Alain Mikli, Computer Use, Designer Frames, Frames, Night Vision Tagged With: alain mikli, designer frames, lens technology, stylish eyewear

Contacts for Elephants? Really?

January 27, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

And you thought you had seen it all ….a 45-YEAR-OLD Asian elephant at Amsterdam’s Artis Zoo has become the first elephant in Europe to be fitted with a contact lens, after her cornea was scratched during a scuffle with another member of the herd.

According to Irish Times, Veterinarian Anne-Marie Verbruggen had fitted contact lenses to horses before, but never to an elephant. She had to use a ladder yesterday to reach her patient and perform the delicate operation – which lasted just under an hour.

The elephant, Win Thida – the matriarch of the elephant herd at the zoo – was given daily training sessions for the past few weeks to work up to the operation. She was relaxed and co-operated fully, the zoo authorities said afterwards.

“I was called in when the zoo reported that Win Thida’s eye was painful and streaming,” said Verbruggen. “It looked as if maybe it had been scratched by a twig during a scuffle.

“The main difficulty was her height. Elephants can’t lie down for long before their immense weight impairs their breathing, so I used a ladder to get close enough. It wasn’t ideal, but it worked. She seemed happier straight away.”

The operation was carried out under anaesthetic, and Win Thida stood throughout. She can now keep her eye open more easily. And protected by the contact lens, the wound in the cornea will be able to heal and remain clean.

Win Thida is well known and loved by visitors to Artis Zoo, the oldest in the Netherlands. She started life in a work camp in Burma and was moved to a zoo in Arnhem in 1989. She transferred to Amsterdam in 2004, and has become a favourite with children.

Acrylic intra-ocular contact lenses are usually fitted for animals whose vision becomes impaired, generally as a result of cataracts. Loss of vision can blunt sex drive and stop rare and endangered animals from reproducing. As a result, the World Wildlife Fund has paid for lens transplants for brown bears in a nature reserve in China.

Special contact lenses that absorb ultra-violet rays are sometimes inserted for horses suffering from “head-shaker syndrome”, a painful and life-threatening ailment. Rhinos have also been fitted with lenses – the largest available versions which are fist-width.

Filed Under: WOW! Tagged With: elephant contact lenses eye care for animals

Giving sight to macular degeneration patients

January 26, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

“OMG! I can see my watch”

This was the response from 76 year old Sue Freeman just two weeks after receiving a treatment for her macular degeneration using embryonic stem cells. This new treatment is only in the preliminary stages of a trial at UCLA, however the results seem to be very promising.

A bit of background; macular degeneration is the the leading cause of blindness in older people (however there is also a juvenile form of the disease which is also being treated with stem cells as shown in the video below).

Macular degeneration destroys cells called retinal pigment epithelium, or RPE, a key component of sharp, detailed central vision. Freeman had the most common form, known as “dry” macular degeneration.

“The treatments for dry macular degeneration are really few, if any. There are no approved treatments for macular degeneration,” said Dr. Steven Schwartz, an UCLA eye surgeon.

Dr. Schwartz modified human embryonic stem cells in the lab and turned them into the RPE cells that were needed. He transplanted those new cells by injection into one of Sue Freeman’s eyes. She noticed this after two weeks. But Freeman’s retina had changed very little on examination and Dr. Schwartz wondered if somehow the placebo effect was at work. Results were quite different with patient number two, a 51-year-old woman also legally blind but with a juvenile form of macular degeneration.

”This patient, we’ve got some real evidence that we can hang our hat on that there’s at a least a biological signal that we may be on the right track,” Dr. Schwartz said.

The second patient asked that we not use her name. In this woman’s case, Dr. Schwartz saw the new cells had taken root in her retina. CBS News asked her to compare vision, first in the eye that wasn’t treated. The patient described seeing things much better in the treated eye, adding “it’s remarkable really.”

Dr. Schwartz emphasizes these are preliminary results and is continuing this trial in more patients. The cells he’s using come from a human embryo donated from a couple who had already had their children using fertility treatment. Schwartz says the science is much less far along with stem cells derived from other sources, like umbilical cords.

Filed Under: Diseases Tagged With: CBS News, embroynic stem cell research, eye disease, macular degeneration, treatment for blindness, UCLA

The making of ic! berlin’s eyewear

January 25, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Designers, ic! berlin Tagged With: creating designer frames, ic! berlin eyewear, video

Winter Sports Eye Protection

January 23, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Rudy Project Snow Goggles

Winter sports season is here; with the popularity of snowboarding and skiing in Wisconsin eye injuries are common. One reason is the glare from the snow can make it very difficult to see where you’re headed.

According to Vision Service Plans;

The surface of our eyes often become irritated by harsh winds, and snow sport enthusiasts should protect their eyes using properly fitted, sports-rated eyewear that filters out 100% of UV light. Those of us who need prescription lenses can benefit from prescription goggles. In either case, some of the risks of not protecting your eyes include keratitis (inflammation of the cornea), conjunctivitis, and retina damage, not to mention direct injury to the eye.

It’s a natural tendency to think the sun is less intense during the winter months, but the truth is the winter sun sits lower in the sky and exposure can actually increase. Winter is time where polarized sunglasses can really help cut down the blinding glare that we catch off the bright white snow.

So whether you’re hitting the slopes this season or just playing in the snow remember to protect your eyes.

Source- Vision Service Plans

Filed Under: polarized lenses, Sports, UV Protection Tagged With: conjunctivitis, eye health, eyewear, frames, glasses, infection, protect from damage, sunglasses, UV protection for eyes

Customized by Claudine

January 20, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Claudine is wearing a frame she customized to be all her own. She chose the unique edgy shape and hand picked her colors. She added a color liner around her lenses so they didn’t look like your typical rimless frames. Eyephorics 2.5 is a line that allows you to choose everything from your lens shape, to the frame colors and style. Not only can you customize your frame, but it is extremely lightweight and comfortable thanks to their high-technology material. This is Claudine’s second time designing her own frame with Eyephorics 2.5. Her son even got in on the action designing his frames in Hot Wheels colors! How fun!

Thanks for sharing Claudine. Enjoy your new glasses!

Filed Under: Adults, Fashion & Celebs, Frames, Lens Trends! Tagged With: custom made, Dr. Amy Jankowski, eyephorics 2.5, eyewear, fashion, frames, glasses, italee, lens technology, lightweight, Metro Eye, rimless frames, swiss flex

“OMG! I can see my watch”

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