SUNY Optometry and the University Eye Center, in partnership with InfantSEE® and the Allergan Foundation, will host a presentation on pediatric vision health by Dr. Glenn Steele and a performance by Tom Sullivan on April 26th, 2013 at the SUNY School of Optometry: This event is designed as a platform to not only spread the […]
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Have you ever stopped to think of how a baseball player can hit a 95 mph fastball? Or how a NFL quarterback knows precisely where to throw the football? If you take a step back, the abilities of the professional athletes that we watch on a daily basis are pretty amazing. Just check out SportsCenter
For those of you who don’t know, the Optometric Extension Program (OEP) is the grandfather to organized optometric programs dedicated to post-graduate education on behavioral optometry and vision therapy. Over the years, it has transformed into an organization that not only conveys a message, but also produces the Journal of Behavioral Optometry, hosts many continuing education
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Convergence insufficiency (CI) is one of the most common binocular vision disorders that is encountered in optometry. It is a condition that was first described by Von Graefe in 1855 and has been the focus of many studies since then. Jeffery Cooper, O.D, M.S., and Nadine Jamal, O.D. have recently published a paper that compiles
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From the start of Optometry school, professors and supervisors preached that a patient’s chief complaint and case history should direct your exam. Finally in my fourth year of Optometry I understand why. I have found that when it comes to binocular vision disorders or what Griffin & Grisham in “Binocular Anomalies: Diagnosis and Vision Therapy”
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Let me take you back about a year ago… It was early on a Monday morning and I was sitting in vision therapy lab learning the basics of the DEM test, eagerly taking down notes along with the rest of my classmates. I had my glasses on top of my head (I am a low
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What?! Have I lost my mind?! Well most optometrists would say that having an NPC of TTN is the ultimate convergence a patient can have; however I ask you to think differently. Ok. Let’s take a step back and start from the beginning. As part of your routine entrance tests you take out an accommodative
Near Point of Convergence: To The Nose is Not All You Need to Know! Read More »
Everyone knows the game of Tic-Tac-Toe. It is a game that you learned as a kid and one that you still play when you are on a plane, have some time to kill or (let’s be honest) are bored in class. Well did you ever think that such a simple game could be used in
Tic-Tac-Toe: A Perceptual Exercise? Read More »
What do you think of when you hear “strabismus?” Perhaps you think of eye turns like exotropia and esotropia or you may immediately think about surgery…. Well, when I think of strabismus I think “AHHH! What do I do ?! Okay, well maybe it isn’t a COMPLETE freak-out…. however there is a small part of
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As I move forward through Optometry school, I am finding that many students (as well as faculty) have created this dichotomy within the profession: It is either ocular disease or vision rehabilitation. I challenge you to think outside of that… from the vision rehabilitation side, the options are endless. Here are just a few:
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