In the article, Effect of Aerobic Exercise at Different Intensities on Intraocular Pressure in Young Males published in the November 2022 issue of Journal of Glaucoma, the researchers find that intense exercise has an IOP-lowering effect for 30 minutes after the activity. There were 20 men average age of about 21 in the study. For […]
A standard warning in investing is that prior performance does not predict future results. Can the same thing be said about myopia progression? The article The Limited Value of Prior Change in Predicting Future Progression of Juvenile-Onset Myopia: Optometry and Vision Science published in the May 2022 edition of Optometry and Vision Science purports that […]
Readers of this site will know I’m a sucker for a new myopia control article. Xu Cheng, MD, PhD, et al published Randomized trial of soft contact lenses with novel ring focus for controlling myopia progression in Ophthalmology Science in October 2022. One of the biggest issues with myopia control is balancing the quality of […]
In my post Red light therapy for myopia control, I came across the concept of a potential mechanism for myopia control. Scleral hypoxia. Though my knowledge of molecular biology is significantly lacking. I found the results and discussion of these pathways utterly fascinating. I read through two papers: Scleral Mechanisms Underlying Ocular Growth and Myopia […]
An Office-Based Fix-And-Follow Grading System Assessing Visual Function in Preverbal Children published in the November 2021 issue of BMC Ophthalmology outlines a reproducible method in assessing visual function of infants and toddlers. I must admit that I do not have much experience working with this patient population. I feel more comfortable working with kids five […]
Red light therapy seems to be the new thing in regards to fixing everything from pre-mature aging of the skin, meibomian gland disease, and, it turns out, amblyopia. We intend to use a device that emits red light at 650 nm in wavelength based on the fact that it has already been approved and widely […]
Association of Parental Myopia With Higher Risk of Myopia Among Multiethnic Children Before School Age looks in the March 2020 issue of JAMA Ophthalmology looks at data not previously before noted. There are tons of studies regarding how school age children develop myopia and nearsightedness. This one hones in on how myopia develops in children […]
Compliance with wear and care instructions in contact lens patients is very important. Experience with patients tells us that it is pretty dismal. Patients usually overwear their lenses, don’t clean them properly, do not replace disinfecting solutions, sleep in lenses when they’re not supposed to, don’t replace their cases often enough or at all. I […]
N–3 Fatty Acid Supplementation for the Treatment of Dry Eye Disease published in the May 2018 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine supposedly proved that using n-3 (aka omega-3) fatty acids are no better than a placebo in treating dry eye disease. Among patients with dry eye disease, those who were randomly assigned […]
I get most of my paper ideas from a free service call Practice Update. When you sign up, you enter in what you are interested in, and they send you a list of links everyday. They all have some commentary, but I enjoy reading them myself. Only about half are fully accessible. The other half […]