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Experience the “Reality” of Vision Impairments

Correct vision is vital in the classroom. However, children often don’t know they have an eye problem, and may be struggling in school due to uncorrected vision issues. That’s the premise of Think About Your Eyes’ new virtual reality experience – participants experience vision impairments in a classroom setting, putting them in the shoes of children who struggle in school due to eye problems.

The experience simulates the following vision impairments:

Nearsightedness
Farsightedness
Diabetic retinopathy
Glaucoma
Macular degeneration

“We know that many parents don’t prioritize eye exams for their ...

Eye Health / Blindness Pain / Anesthetics Neurology / Neuroscience
Adapted Media Release

Physician-researchers with Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, part of UHealth - the University of Miami Health System, have found a link between "dry eye" and chronic pain syndromes - a finding that suggests that a new paradigm is needed for diagnosis and treatment to improve patient outcomes.
"Our study indicates that some patients with dry eye have corneal somatosensory pathway dysfunction and
would be better described as having neuropathic ocular pain," said Anat Galor, M.D., M.S.P.H., a cornea and uveitis specialist and associate professor of clinical ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the Univers...

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