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A comprehensive eye exam is much more than reading an eye chart on the wall. First off, your optometrist will inquire about your current/past eye and general health history. This is important because many general health conditions and medications may affect your eyes. Your family history is also important because it will determine your risk for developing certain hereditary eye diseases.
Most patients are familiar with the vision assessment which helps the optometrist determine your glasses prescription. A series of tests are performed to ensure you have the clearest and most comfortable prescription. Several different prescriptions are needed to have optimal vision for the various demands of your work and hobbies.
We welcome patients who have ocular emergencies that need to be assessed immediately. Examples of emergencies include red eyes, foreign bodies in the eye, sudden vision loss and blur, sudden peripheral vision loss, eye pain, and symptoms of flashes and/or floaters. Many eye emergencies need to be diagnosed and treated quickly for a better prognosis.
Your optometrist can evaluate your eyes and make prompt referrals to ophthalmologists when necessary. Please call us during our office hours and we will make sure you are seen as soon as needed. With a combination of the proper optometry care and self-care, you can minimize computer eye syndrome and other modern-day vision problems. Contact us for an appointment today.
We conduct free eye camps on tied up with Essilor 2.5 New Vision Generation using our exclusive Mobile Vision Screening Unit. Essilor International announces the launch of “2.5 New Vision Generation” to bring good vision to the people in need.
Today, 2.5 billion people need to have their vision corrected; 95% of them live in emerging countries like India and China. This is a consequence of poor access to eye care professionals. India and China have the largest number of people with uncorrected vision. If no action, the estimates show that this major social and economic issue will affect 3.2 billion people by 2050. Essilor has created this dedicated division that aims to add 50 million new spectacle wearers per year by 2020.
Teleophthalmology/Teleoptometry is a branch of telemedicine that delivers eye care through digital medical equipment and telecommunications technology. Today, applications of teleophthalmology encompass access to eye specialists for patients in remote areas, ophthalmic disease screening, diagnosis and monitoring; as well as distant learning.
We at SCOOC Examine all the patient and connect the with the Eye specialist from major hospitals of India. Hence enhancing the eye care and make the service available to door step.
We after examining the patient, will share the all the clinical findings with the eye doctors of various speciality, who then connect with the patient sitiing with our clinic with the help of our Teleoptometry/Tele Ophthalmology services.
Telemedicine is a strategy that has risen to the top for hospitals that work tirelessly to find new, innovative ways to cut costs while also improving patient care outcomes. It allows healthcare providers to use electronic communications to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients remotely and gives patients quick, efficient and convenient access to medical expertise. With Our Teleophthalmology/Teleoptometry services the patient connect with doctors from various speciality across India at real time to solve their ocular queries.
In our office we first listen closely to what you need. We can then deliver personal solutions to address your personal problems or situation. Each cornea has a unique “fingerprint” and we have the ability to design and solve special problems of how someone sees or how they appear to others.
Who might need a special lens or specialty lenses?Individuals who
- Need Sharper Vision
- Have Dry Eye
- Have Scarring of the Cornea
- Need for Multifocal Contact Lenses
There are special customized lenses specifically designed to solve problems such as:
- Keratoconus
- Pellucid Marginal Degeneration
- Injuries, Diseases, Congenital problems that cause distortion of the cornea
Custom contact lens can be made to match the “good” eye so that they both look the same.
- Poor vision and problems after refractive surgery such as LASIK, PRK, or RK
- Ectasia (corneal bulging)
- Photophobia (extreme sensitivity to light)
- Aniridia
- Color Blind / Color Vision Deficiency and you want to be able to see color
- Strabismus: an eye that turns in or out relative to the other
- Dry Eye
- Contact Lens intolerance; for people that had worn soft or gas permeable lenses but became intolerant to them
One of the most common complaints people who wear contact lens is that the contact lenses make my their eyes feel dry. Regular, soft contact lenses can make a dry eye even dryer because soft contact lenses dry out on their own. Dry eye cause by soft lenses drying out is the leading reason people stop wearing contact lenses. Dry eye syndrome is a common problem among contact lens wearers and non-wearers alike. Symptoms often become worse if someone spends a lot of time on computer or reading.
Fortunately, there are effective answers to these contact-related dry eye problems.
- Scleral lenses are made of a gas permeable material rather than a soft lens material. They don’t contain water so they don’t dry out as soft lenses do. They actually serve as a reservoir to maintain moisture in the cornea.
- Another alternative is wearing a daily disposable contact lens rather than a 2 or 4 weeks soft lens.
- Orthokeratology is a very good option for individuals that suffer dry eye. These lenses are worn only while sleeping and re-shape the cornea. It has the benefits of LASIK without the risks. LASIK frequently produces dry eye even when someone has not had dry eye before. If someone has a dry eye, to begin with, LASIK often makes the problem worse. Orthokeratology is available for people that are nearsighted, farsighted, stigmatic, and those that need a prescription to see both at distance and at near.
- Lubricating eye drops made specifically for contact lenses wearers can give short-term relief of contact lens dryness symptoms. Preservatives in contact lens solutions can cause irritation, especially if someone uses multipurpose solutions. We recommend hydrogen peroxide systems for those individuals who use non-daily disposable lenses.
The ability to maintain visual focus on an object with both eyes, creating a single visual image. Lack of binocular vision is normal in infants. Adults without binocular vision experience distortions in depth perception and visual measurement of distance.
What we see is the result of signals sent from the eyes to the brain. Usually, the brain receives signals from both (bi) eyes (ocular) at the same time. The information contained in the signal from each eye is slightly different and with well-functioning binocular vision, the brain is able to use these differences to judge distances and coordinate eye movements.
Unlike some other animals, humans’ eyes are both set on the front of the face, permitting binocular vision. This forward-facing orientation of the eye means each eye has a rather similar view of an image. The field of view, which is the area that you can see when you close one eye, overlaps significantly between each eye also. The center of the eyes’ fields of view overlap with one another the most. This portion of the visual field provides the most detailed information to the brain. Visual information in the periphery or center of the visual field can, of course, be detected by one eye, but the combined visual information is what is required for binocular processing. This information is transmitted throughout a majority of the brain.
Visual information is processed very early. Light (think of light as the image of an object) is focused by the eye onto the delicate neural structure of the retina. To simplify, think of the eye as similar to a camera. Like a camera, the eye uses a series of focusing mechanisms to place a clear image on the film (the retina).
The front window of the eye called the cornea, and the focusing mechanism called the crystalline lens, focus light onto the retina. The retina organizes the information (light) that lands on it and changes the information to electrical impulses. These impulses (also called signals) exit the eye through the optic nerve and begin the pathway through the brain. Shortly after the optic nerve exits the eye, some fibers of each optic nerve become intertwined. Visual information from different parts of the visual field are combined and the neurons continue to make their way through the upper and lower lobes of the brain (called the parietal and temporal lobes, respectively). The final stop of the neuron is the occipital lobe, an area of the brain in the back of the brain, which synthesizes and processes visual information. The end result is a single, coordinated image.
Binocular vision anomalies are among the most common visual disorders. They are usually associated with symptoms such as headaches, eye strain, eye pain, blurred vision, and occasionally double vision. There are many reasons binocular vision might become reduced or lost altogether, including:
- Reduced vision in one eye
- Loss of coordination of movement between the two eyes (strabismus)
- Problems with the brain comparing images from both eyes
Binocular vision impairments often result in partial or total loss of stereoscopic vision and binocular depth perception. Conditions, where the eye is obviously turned or crossed, are commonly referred to with terms like "cross-eyed", "crossed-eyes", wall-eyes" or "wandering eyes". These binocular vision impairments are easily detected by others as all the observer needs to do is notice that both eyes do not aim in the same direction at all times. Some medical terms for these deviations or misalignments of the eye are strabismus, esotropia, exotropia, congenital strabismus, hereditary strabismus, pediatric strabismus, adult strabismus, accommodative esotropia, alternating esotropia, congenital esotropia, accommodative esotropia, esophoria, exophoria, exotropia, exotropic, esotropic, hyperphoria, hypophoria, hyperphoria, hypertropia. Other medical conditions that can contribute to poor binocular vision are anisometropia, astigmatism, nearsightedness, myopia, farsightedness, hyperopia, nystagmus, cerebral palsy, cataracts.
Some binocular vision impairments are not easily detected by parents, teachers, or others because the turning or straying of the eye(s) is NOT obvious or consistent. Some eye turns are intermittent (they come and go) and/or they are not easily noticed by the untrained observer. A binocular vision problem is indicated, even when an eye turn is only occasionally visible. Convergence Insufficiency is a binocular vision disorder that is often overlooked because The tough thing about convergence insufficiency is that it often goes undiagnosed because a person can pass a typical 20/20 eye chart test and still have it. That's why an early examination is so important.
Vision therapy is like physio-therapy for the visual system, including the eyes and the parts of the brain that control vision.
Vision therapy is a optometrist-supervised, non-surgical and customized program of visual activities designed to correct certain vision problems and/or improve visual skills.
Unlike eyeglasses and contact lenses, which simply compensate for vision problems, or eye surgery that alters the anatomy of the eye or surrounding muscles, vision therapy aims to "teach" the visual system to correct itself.
Vision therapy can include the use of lenses, prisms, filters and computer-assisted visual activities. Other devices, such as balance boards, metronomes and non-computerized visual instruments also can play an important role in a customized vision therapy program.
It is important to note that vision therapy is not defined by a simple list of tools and techniques. Successful vision therapy outcomes are achieved through a therapeutic process that depends on the active engagement of the prescribing doctor, the vision therapist, the patient and (in the case of children) the child's parents.
Overall, the goal of vision therapy is to treat vision problems that cannot be treated successfully with eyeglasses, contact lenses and/or vision surgery alone, and help people achieve clear, comfortable binocular vision.
Many studies have shown that vision therapy can correct vision problems that interfere with efficient reading among schoolchildren. It also can help reduce eye strain and other symptoms of computer vision syndrome experienced by many children and adults.
Problems vision therapy can correctVision therapy can relieves symptoms and improve outcomes for a variety of vision problems, including:
- Amblyopia . Also called "lazy eye," amblyopia is a vision development problem where an eye fails to attain normal visual acuity, usually due to strabismus or other problems of eye teaming.
- Strabismus. The success of vision therapy for strabismus depends on the direction, magnitude and frequency of the eye turn. Vision therapy has been proven effective for treating an intermittent form of strabismus called convergence insufficiency, which is an inability to keep the eyes properly aligned when reading despite good eye alignment when looking at distant objects.
- Other binocular vision problems. Subtle eye alignment problems called phorias that may not produce a visible eye turn but still can cause eye strain and eye fatigue when reading also can be minimized or corrected with vision therapy.
- Eye movement disorders. Studies have shown vision therapy can improve the accuracy of eye movements used during reading and other close-up work.
- Accommodative (focusing) disorders. Other research shows near-far focusing skills can be improved with vision training.
- Other problems. Other vision problems for which vision therapy may be effective include visual-perceptual disorders, vision problems associated with developmental disabilities and vision problems associated with acquired brain injury (such as from a stroke)
Sports vision training is not vision therapy, but it shares some of the characteristics of vision therapy. Eye doctors who specialize in sports vision offer customized vision training programs for anyone interested in optimizing their visual skills for specific sports.
Many Olympic and professional athletes have undergone sports vision training programs to improve their performance.
Because sports vision training programs typically are designed to enhance a person's visual skills for a specific sport rather than to correct a vision problem, the term "vision training" is preferred over "vision therapy." However, some of the techniques used in sports vision training are similar to those used in vision therapy.
The Low Vision Service at SCOOC helps improve the quality of life of those patients who suffer from very poor vision due to advanced eye conditions.
Not all-poor vision can be enhanced with surgery and/or other treatments. Moreover, this affects our lives on a daily basis making it difficult for the patients as well as their families. Low vision service strives to improve the patient’s low vision through various devices and rehabilitation services. With the help of these devices, a lot of patients with extremely poor vision can have a better quality of life.
Plans are devised for the patient, based on the patient’s needs and profession in collaboration with him and his family. Patient undergoes a detailed eye check-up including basic check-up such as-
- Visual acuity (both distance and near)
- Visual field, particularly the central visual field used for reading
- Contrast sensitivity
The options and plans include magnification aids, computer tools and vision training. These individualised options help in safe and independent daily activities.
Visit SCOOC for fashionable, affordable glasses and lenses for your whole family. Our optical stores have the latest styles for children, adolescents and adults that look great and help you see better.
Our trained opticians will help you find the glasses that best flatter your face. We’re dedicated to finding the frames that fit your personality and style.
We serve clients of all ages to fit them with stylish eyeglasses. Our opticians also help teach you what contact lenses would be right for you and how to use them. We have fun frames, colorful frames, professional looks, rimless glasses, cat eye frames and more.
Finding the perfect frames is what our opticians do best. They're trained to fill prescriptions written by optometrists and ophthalmologists. Their services focus on helping you find glasses or contacts that you’ll love. They can also replace or repair broken frames. Call an optician now if you need new glasses, want to try contacts or if you need a broken pair of glasses fixed. Need an eye test? Find an optometrist.
See what you’ve been missing with help from SCOOC. Our glasses can solve a variety of problems. You’ll regain the ability to see objects from afar or up close, depending on your vision issues. Getting glasses or contacts can also help reduce eye fatigue, headaches, seeing “halos,” blurry vision, night blindness and other vision difficulties. If you’re in the majority of Americans who need vision correction, you’ll be in good hands with your SCOOC optician.
We offer specialized glasses or contacts that can fit everyone’s needs, including:
- Bioptics People who are visually impaired can’t do activities (such as driving) that others take for granted. Bioptics are vision-enhancement lenses that help people see far away objects through magnification. They can empower those who are visually impaired.
- Difficult fits SCOOC has options if you have trouble finding glasses that fit your head size or face shape.
- High power glasses We provide high power reading glasses or conventional glasses to help with serious vision problems.
- Low vision Those with low vision aren’t out of options. Low vision is vision loss that can’t be fixed medically or surgically. We offer specialized devices to help you live with low vision.
- Prism optical glasses Find relief from double vision. Prism correction in eyeglasses uses a prism to bends light in a way to ensure that your brain sees only one, clear image.
- Specialty lenses For individuals with unique eye problems, try lenses that are specialized to address your vision issues. We’ll customize lenses to correct eye diseases, help with dry eye, give you sharper vision and more.
- Specialty prescriptions SCOOC offers transition lenses, bifocals, UV blocking technology, polarized lenses and more.
- Sportswear Don’t let glasses slow you down on the field. Come to SCOOC for prescription sports glasses that you can safely wear even when playing high-impact sports.
- Sunglasses Get stylish prescription sunglasses so you can be comfortable outside or while driving.
Find the vision correction that’s right for you. Shop at SCOOC optical services for complete eye care.