Pupillary Pathways

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 your exam if necessary.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

Each day you will encounter at least one patient, but likely more, with symptoms of computer vision syndrome.

Previously, we discussed symptoms to watch out for while performing your case history that will lead to computer vision syndrome or digital eye strain diagnosis. 

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.

Thinking of when to start studying for NBEO ® Part 1 is very overwhelming. Sometimes it feels too early to start since not all courses have been completed, but other times it feels like it’s too late. If you feel like you’re running behind on officially studying for NBEO ® Part 1, here are my thoughts and insights on how I would do it.