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Time to Hang Up the Keys?
One of the hardest questions eye care professionals routinely have to deal with is when to tell people with visual difficulaties that they need to stop driving.
Giving up your driving privilege is difficult to come to terms with if you have a problem that leads to permanent visual decline.
The legal requirements for visual acuity vary from state to state. For example, in New Jersey the legal requirement to drive, based on vision, has been 20/50 vision or better with best correction in...
Dealing with Macular Degeneration
When confronted with a diagnosis of Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), it's natural to wonder what you should do. Here are some treatment options for both Dry and Wet Age Related Macular Degeneration.
Dry AMD Treatments
Nutrition Supplements
The Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (AREDS2) showed that people at high risk of developing advanced stages of AMD benefited from taking dietary supplements. Supplements lowered the risk of macular degeneration progression by 25 percent....
6 Activities That Can Change Your Eye Pressure
There have been studies undertaken over the past several years to try and understand if there are any of our day-to-day activities that either help or hurt the management of glaucoma.
Most of the studies demonstrated very little impact on the course of glaucoma. Here are some of the things researches have looked at.
Aerobic exercise: This means doing something at least four times per week for more than 20 minutes at a time that raises your pulse rate to a level that makes your heart...
