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Accommodative Insufficiency: A Guide for New ODs

accommodation 13:51
Let me set the stage with a classic patient presentation. 10 year old patient complains of distance blur at school.  When you ask a few more questions, they also state that sometimes when they are reading they have headaches or blurry vision.  Sometimes they even tell you that their distance vision is blurry after they read (though it is rare for a young...

The Patient's Guide to Refractive Error Part 4: Presbyopia

over the counter readers 21:28
Remember those friends you had that never, ever had to wear glasses or contact lenses.  They were just blessed with perfect vision and never even entered the door of an optometrist's office growing up.  They went through life knowing how lucky they were and thinking how awful it was for those poor glasses wearing people.  Then a little thing called 40 happened. Believe...