The Near Perfect Solution for Near-sightedness – Katy Dispatch

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Carter Rogers

The Near Perfect Solution for Near-sightedness:

Ortho-K: Contacts you wear ONLY while sleeping

No glasses, No daytime contacts, No surgery, just great vision and an active lifestyle! Ortho-K has amazing & true results !!!

What Makes Us Exceptional?

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Dr. Liching Han, therapeutic optometrist and glaucoma specialist of M-eye Vision of Katy, TX uses the Corneal Reshaping System (Ortho-K) to safely and effectively improve daytime vision. This process can slow or even stop the progression of nearsightedness; which makes Dr. Han’s specialized M-eye Vision Clinic precisely exceptional from other optometry offices.

Dr. Han, a Katy resident since 2007, resides in Grand Lakes along with her husband Owin and their sons, Rick, Jack and Luke. As an optometrist, she practices full-scope primary optometric eye care including eye exams, glasses, contact lens. The latest technology is to diagnose and treat patients with medical conditions such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, dry eye, red eye, Laser & cataract surgery co-management, for example. Her specialization is application of the process called Corneal Reshaping.

Corneal Reshaping (Ortho-K) is a non-surgical process which gently reshapes the eye cornea while you sleep by using specially designed vision retainer lenses. Simply sleep with your corneal reshaping lenses at night and remove them first thing in the morning and enjoy great vision all day long without the interfering of glasses and daytime contacts. It is safe, convenient, reversible, non-surgical and FDA approved for all ages. Many aspects of your life will improve with corneal reshaping!

The progression of nearsightedness can be slowed or stopped by Corneal Reshaping. Proven by clinical research, this fact has enormous impact. Some children’s eyesight may deteriorate as they grow. It can be quite disheartening to parents to see their child’s prescription get worse year after year. Latest research indicates that nearsightedness does not progress as rapidly in children who wear Corneal Reshaping lenses.

Corneal Reshaping (Ortho-K): Is Very Safe For Children

Dr. Han has used the Corneal Reshaping System (Ortho-K) to safely and effectively improve daytime vision in many children. The number one concern parents have is safety.

Paragon, the manufacturer of M-eye Vision Corneal Reshaping lenses, is FDA approved for all ages. Dr. Han can successfully fit children as young of 5 years of age. In fact 75% of the Corneal Reshaping patients are children!

Dr. Han’s Children: Rick & Jack

Dr. Han’s twin sons Rick and Jack both became nearsighted at a very early age. Dr. Han fit both of her sons with Corneal Reshaping Lens soon after the diagnoses and they have worn Corneal Reshaping lenses ever since. Their vision, eye health and subsequent prescriptions have been completely stable since they started wearing the lenses nightly.

Rick and Jack love their Corneal Reshaping lens so much because they love Hockey, Basketball and Swimming too; and they can participate without wearing glasses or contacts!!!

This fact is one of the major reasons Dr. Han has developed a passion for this technique and has focused a big part of her practice on helping other children through this process.

Corneal Reshaping (Ortho-K): Not New

Reshaping the cornea with contact lenses to improve vision isn’t new; some eye doctors have practiced it for decades. However, prior to FDA approval for overnight wear, the procedure had limited appeal. Now with safe and oxygen permeable materials the process has grown in effectiveness, safety and popularity.

To learn more about Corneal Reshaping, visit:

http://www.meyevisionkaty.com

http://www.myopiaprevention.org

http://www.crtvision.com

More about Dr. Han and M-Eye Vision

Dr. Han graduated from University of Missouri with a Master of Science degree and from University of Houston College of Optometry with a Doctor of Optometry degree. Dr. Han is a member of The Orthokeratology Academy of America.

Dr. Han’s office M-Eye Vision is conveniently located on HWY 99 Grand Pkwy and South Fry Rd HEB shopping center between HEB and Hobby Lobby in Katy Texas.

M-eye Vision offers a wide variety of eyeglasses and contact lenses as well as full-service eye care.

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Outdoor recess time can reduce the risk of nearsightedness in …

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Carter Rogers

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Eye exercises for myopia or nearsightedness

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Carter Rogers

Eye Exercises For Myopia or

Nearsightedness

Eye exercises can work wonders for your vision. If you passionately and consistently practice some exercises, your vision is bound to improve. I’ll be teaching you three super effective exercises that will help you reach your goal, i.e perfect vision. These exercises can be performed at odd moments like attending call, when you are doing your business sitting in your toilet seat, waiting for the lights to turn green, waiting in a queue, using your computer etc. They are really very effective and you’ll see dramatic improvements in a short span of time. Here are some exercises which specially cater to the needs of myopic patients.

Eye Exercise #1 Tracking or Edging

This exercise helps you by strengthening your cilliary muscles. This helps them to focus better and thus form clearer images. It is considered to be one of the supreme eye exercises in the world.

Steps:-

Choose a far away object which is at least 10 feet away from you.
Closely look at its edges (outline) and slowly move your gaze(focus) along the outline. It basically means to look at the outline of an object and trace it with your eyes by focusing on each point of its outline. Do it slowly and try to see it as clearly as possible. Do not strain. After you’ve done tracking an object, close your eyes for 2-3 seconds and relax.

Eye Exercise #2 Pumping or Alternate Focusing

This eye exercise aids you to improve both close and distant vision (sweet!). Like edging this exercise has been practiced from thousands of years to improve vision. Another excellent exercise to improve your vision by leaps and bounds. It helps in focusing the image right on the retina. (For your information:- Myopia is a condition when the image is formed in front of the retina and not on it. This exercise will help your eye lens form the image on the retina)

Steps:-

Choose a distant object (farther than 10 feet) . Hold your thumb or any small object less than 15 cms away from your face.
Now focus at your thumb (or the small object) and then quickly and smoothly shift your focus to the far away object. Try to do it as swiftly as possible, but at the same time remember that you should have enough time to see the object clearly.
As you progress you can choose smaller and smaller objects (in place of both your thumb and distant object)
Repeat this process for 5 mins or for how much ever time you have (say 2 mins while talking on the phone)
With practice you’ll become better and faster. You will occasionally notice clear flashes. Clear flashes are moments when everything appears perfectly clear.

Eye Exercise # 3 . Technically this is a good visual habit and not an eye exercise.

This is a very crucial habit to avoid degrading your vision. This habit will greatly help you prevent revisits to eye doctors and higher prescriptions.

It’s pretty simple actually. It’s also called 10-10-10 rule. You must remember this is you want to completely cease your eyes from deteriorating.

What to do :-

When performing activities which cause near point stress (stress caused when you focus on a close by objects like a computer, mobile or book) you must periodically look at far away objects to release this stress.
You must look at an object (at least 10 feet away) for 10 seconds in intervals of 10 mins while doing activities that cause near point stress. Hence it’s also called the 10-10-10 rule.

I wish you good luck in your endeavour

Nearsighted children may get worse in winter – timesofmalta.com

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Carter Rogers

Nearsighted children had their vision deteriorate faster when days were shortest and more slowly during the summer months, according to a Chinese study investigating whether daylight may slow the worsening of children’s vision.

“Most likely it is the light exposure that causes the reduced myopia progression during periods with longer days,” said lead author Dongmei Cui, an ophthalmologist at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.

Cui and his colleagues analysed data from a clinical trial that included more than 200 children aged eight to 14 years old with myopia, or nearsightedness, in Denmark, where day length ranges from seven hours in winter to almost 18 hours in summer.

Researchers, whose findings appeared in Ophthalmology, looked at changes both in the children’s ability to see and in the shape of their eyes.

Over the six months with the least daylight, nearsightedness progressed by 0.32 diopters – a measurement of the optical power of a lens and the increment used in eyeglasses prescriptions. In comparison, children’s vision deteriorated by 0.28 diopters over the sunniest months.

As the length of the eyeball increases from front to back, nearsightedness tends to get worse. During winter, eye length in the study participants increased by an average of 0.18 millimeters, compared to 0.14 mm over the summer.

The researchers did not analyse how much time the children spent outside, just how much they probably did based on the season. Danish children spend much more time outdoors in summer, and very little in winter, when temperatures hover around freezing for four months, according to Cui.

Past research on nearsightedness in children in the US found the condition deteriorated more during the six months of the school year and less during the six months that include summer, Cui and his colleagues note.

But another study in Singapore, where days are about the same length all year, found no seasonal difference in the progression of nearsightedness.

Cui said his team’s findings are the first to link nearsightedness progression with hours of available daylight.

Even when the sky is overcast, light from the sun is much more intense than indoor light, he said.

The idea that daylight might protect children from worsening nearsightedness is a relatively new theory, said Jeffrey Cooper of the College of Optometry at the State University of new York in Manhattan.

Studies in mammals and birds have found that light exposure plays a role in the development of the eye, and that animals reared from a young age with frequent exposure to high intensity light may be somewhat protected from myopia. No similar effect has been seen with light exposure in adulthood.

“There is no evidence that increasing outside exposure will actually reduce the progression of myopia,” Cooper said.

But it could be a long time before a rigorous trial can prove the connection, and in the meantime it won’t hurt to encourage children at risk for nearsightedness to spend some time outdoors, he added.

33rd Square | 23andMe Finds Multiple Genetic Factors Impacting …

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Carter Rogers

Genetics
In the largest ever genome-wide association study on myopia, 23andMe, the leading personal genetics company, has identified 20 new genetic associations for myopia, or nearsightedness.

The company also replicated two known associations in the study, which was specific to individuals of European ancestry. The study included an analysis of genetic data and survey responses from more than 50,000 23andMe customers and demonstrates that the genetic basis of myopia is complex and affected by multiple genes.

Myopia is the most common eye disorder worldwide. In the United States, an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the adult population is nearsighted. Myopia is a refractive error that results primarily from increased axial length of the eye. The increased physical length of the eye relative to optical length causes images to be focused in front of the retina, resulting in blurred distance vision.

The study, titled “Genome-Wide Analysis Points to Roles for Extracellular Matrix Remodeling, the Visual Cycle, and Neuronal Development in Myopia” was published in the journal PLOS Genetics.

Although environmental factors (such as level of education, outdoor exposure, reading, and “near work” or fine detail work that requires close focus of the eyes) are implicated in the development of myopia, it is well established that genetics play a substantial role as well.

Identification of these 20 novel genetic associations shows that several new genetic pathways play a role in the development of human myopia, including extra-cellular remodeling, the visual cycle, eye and body growth, retinal neuron development and general neuronal development or signaling.

“This study highlights the potential importance of early neuronal development in the progression of myopia and opens the door for additional research into the complex interactions that underlie vision development,” said Nicholas Eriksson, Ph.D., author and 23andMe principal scientist.

Based on the findings of this study, 23andMe has launched a new research survey designed to provide insights that may expand understanding of the genetics of eyesight more broadly.

SOURCE PLOS Genetics

Is My Nearsightedness Inherited? – Natural Vision Improvement

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Carter Rogers

Originally appeared in
Earth Star Magazine November/December 2005
Rosemary Gaddum Gordon, D.B.O., M.A.

When I was thirteen I was given my first pair of glasses. I asked the question most of us have, “How did I become nearsighted?” My ophthalmologist told me I had inherited it along with my brown eyes and there was nothing I could do about it. End of story. Since then I discovered there is more to the story. Not only has my eyesight recovered but several interesting studies have been done that point to other factors that impact our vision.

Two studies are of particular importance. One examined the vision of adult identical twins and found that very few of them wear the same glasses prescription, which if inherited anatomy were the sole cause of nearsightedness, we would think they would. Secondly, the vision of three generations of Inuits was measured and compared. While over half the children were nearsighted, very few of the parents and none of the grandparents were nearsighted. The major life-style changes which had occurred during the previous thirty years included the introduction of western methods of education, electricity and canned foods. From this we could wonder about several different possible causes. We could look at how western education compares to their previous forms of schooling. We could look at how having electric lights in a home changes a family’s way of life and we could explore what the addition of canned foods does to a peoples’ diets.

I am no expert on educational methods, but thinking about my and my children’s schooling, it required long hours looking at books and papers. If I imagine what the introduction of electric lights might do, I think of less sleep and more time looking at things within the walls of the house, perhaps more time sewing or reading. So the children seem to spend less time looking into the far distance and possibly sleeping, than did their parents and grandparents.

The nutritional aspects we will explore another time and, of course, emotional and mental stress play an important role, as we have been exploring lately in this column. But, how we use our eyes is vital. Our eyes muscles are very adaptable; they develop according to what we do. As muscles become thicker and stronger in response to constant near work and are not given stretching time, they lose their elasticity. There is no problem with eye muscles becoming stronger, but we do want them to retain their elasticity, otherwise they will lose some of their range of motion. Since the eyes are focused by muscles, this can restrict our range of focus. So, if we read for hours without looking in the distance, when we do look up it takes a while for the distant images to become clear. That adjustment time can take longer and longer until it takes too long and if we don’t change something about how we are using our eyes, we get glasses.

We do inherit our eyes from our parents but how we see the world depends on many other factors. Remember to go outside and spend time looking at what is on the horizon; focus in the distance every five minutes when you are doing any kind of near work and get enough sleep and rest. You and your eyes will be much happier.