Why do we recommend sunglasses ALL year round? Winter is here, and some of us put our sunglasses into hibernation. Take them out of storage!! Sunglasses are a necessity all year round. Here are 5 reasons you need to pull those sunnies out of the vault. UV radiation can be just as damaging in [...]
Dr. Petrou recommends wearing right eyewear to protect your eyes and retinas from permanent vision damage. You can purchase approved solar filters at: https://eclipse.aas.org/resources/solar-filters On Monday, August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will span the United States. The moon will cover at least part of the sun for 2 to 3 hours, with [...]
...doctors caring for children suffering from a concussion should recognize near point of convergence as a “diagnostic entity and understand its implications for return-to-learn to best support children as they re-enter the academic setting after a concussion.
The best way to protect your eyes is to prevent the injury. Everyone knows that wearing sports glasses can prevent eye injury. Sports eyewear can be made with your prescription, or without, like for over contact lenses. More and more eyewear wore by active people now have impact resistant lenses (polycarbonate or Trivex) to protect [...]
Soon to enter into clinical trials is an innovative system of magnification for people with vision loss. The telescope would be worn on the eye as a contact lens and coupled with special smart glasses, is touted to magnify up to 2.8x. The magnifying contact lens and eyewear telescopic device combination is said to focus [...]
Wearing the Proper Eye Protection While Playing Sports Today Can Help Prevent Injury, Save Sight for Years to Come Every year, thousands of Americans suffer an eye injury related to playing sports, according to new data from Prevent Blindness. To help educate the public on the importance of proper eye protection while playing sports, Prevent Blindness [...]
Discover how ChromaPop Lenses, the new "super" lens of the future, can give you precise optical clarity and vivid colors. By blocking specific color wave intersections as they pass through the lens, ChromaPop is able to eliminate color confusion, so your brain can recognize truer color, faster. Petrou Eye Care invites you to see the water [...]
According to a new report published online February 24, 2014 in Ophthalmology, air pollution and atmospheric pressure are the most influential environmental risk factors for the development of dry eye syndrome (DES). Solid and liquid particles in the air were noted to be a significant cause of dry eye disease. Researchers from Bascom Palmer Eye [...]
