All doctors, and especially eye doctors, encourage patients to live an active lifestyle. Exercise is important to overall health, and sports are one of the best forms of exercise. But what if you wear corrective lenses? Should you take your contacts out? Is playing sports...
LASIK and PRK both routinely treat sphero-cylinderical refractive errors (poor focus needing glasses). It would be a mistake, though, to think of sphere+cylinder as equivalent to refractive error just because the former are overwhelmingly the cause of that error . The eye's focus is mostly done by...
A contact lens expiration date is marked on every individual lens package. Chances are high that you rarely look at that date, for a few reasons: it's just one of a bunch of numbers on a small package, it's not clear why it matters, and generally the...
Yes, it is. This is not so much a matter of how far you "push" the LASIK, though, it is about how well your eye has the potential to see. 20/20 is average good visual acuity, not perfect vision. Most young people can actually see better than...
Many of us rub our eyes when we're tired, but the risks of rubbing your eyes aren't worth it. Not only can it lead to infection, it can also damage your vision. So why do we do it? Rubbing your eyes can feel good when...
