Contact Lenses, Tints And UV Protection To reduce glare and improve contrast when playing sports, you might want to consider custom-tinted soft contact lenses. These lenses selectively filter light rays to give you greater visual comfort and help you react faster to objects (such as a baseball or soccer ball) coming your way. Contact [...]
GP And Hybrid Contacts For Sports Though most athletes who need corrective lenses wear soft contacts, GP lenses also are an option. These contacts, also called rigid gas permeable or RGP lenses, are designed for full-time wear and have several advantages over soft contact lenses: Because GP lenses are rigid, they keep their shape [...]
Discovering if you need an eye exam and finding the best vision care has never been easier! EyeXam is the #1 mobile app in the eye care industry; it’s free and has had over a million downloads. The newly-released Android app helps you maintain healthy eyes and great vision by offering fun, easy-to-use, and [...]
Advantages Of Contact Lenses For Sports Compared with eyeglasses, contact lenses offer a number of advantages to enhance your vision for sports competition: Better peripheral vision. Though sports eyeglasses can be made with large, wraparound-style lenses, most prescription eyeglasses have small, relatively flat lenses and small frames. This significantly limits peripheral vision essential for [...]
Optical Enhancer Glass App Designed by Richard G. Davis, MD who is a board certified Ophthalmologist and founder of Precision Eye Care this app is for any Android phone with a light and camera function. It will allow you to use your phone to read when you forget your reading glasses, such as when [...]
From a timeless aviator look to the sophistication of new designer styles, sunglasses are as common in outdoor settings as seashells on a beach. These days, the debate among sunglass wearers focuses on protection versus style. As much as sunglasses make a fashion statement, they serve more importantly as an important device to protect [...]
Presbyopia is the normal age-related loss of focusing ability that affects virtually everyone after age 40. At some point, small print becomes impossible to read without multifocal lenses (if you already wear eyeglasses for nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism) or single vision reading glasses (if you don't need prescription lenses to see distant objects clearly). [...]
Eyeglass frame materials have been revolutionized with the advent of new plastics and various types of metals. Frames generally are fabricated from plastic or metal, but a wide variety of materials can be used, depending on the desired characteristics of the frame. For example, for safety glasses, you may require a durable, lightweight frame [...]
We can make so much about the design features of frames these days that it's easy to overlook the most important factors about eyewear lenses. Always choose anti-reflective coating for your lenses. This clear coating eliminates annoying reflections, improves night vision and enables people to see your eyes more clearly. For thinner, lighter, more [...]
How To Help Someone Who Is Visually Impaired Good vision is a precious gift — and one that's easy to take for granted. Imagine for a minute what life would be like if your vision was permanently impaired and could not be corrected with eyeglasses, contact lenses or vision surgery. This is the situation [...]
