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Eye InSights
Protective Sports Eyewear
September 7, 2011 — Shin guards for soccer. Shoulder pads for football. Batting helmets for baseball and softball. Almost every sport has its own unique safety equipment. But according to Dr. Brett Hagen, Therapeutic Optometrist, most participants in sports forget to protect one of the most important parts of the body: the eyes
"Sports are the leading cause of eye injuries in children under 16," Dr. Hagen said, "Most of these could be avoided by wearing proper eye protection.
Protective sports eyewear can help prevent injuries such as fracture of the eye socket, scratched corneas, swollen retinas and even cataracts caused by trauma to the eye, Dr. Hagen suggests. Parents of children who participate in sports should insist that their children wear protective eyewear and encourage schools and athletic clubs to adopt a policy requiring it.
"September is Sports Eye Safety Awareness Month," Dr. Hagen said. "And we encourage anyone who participates in sports - children and adults alike - to remember to outfit the eyes for safety. Today's protective eyewear is lightweight, comfortable and available with our without vision correction."
Pay a visit to Dr. Hagen in his own practice, Garland Vision Source at 521 West Garland in Spokane. He is a member of Vision Source, the nation's number one network of private practice optometrists. Founded in 1991, The Vision Source network includes more than 2,300 offices in all 50 states and in Canada.
Announcing Direct Shipping Option:
For Patients Who Order Contacts Online
July 27, 2010 — In alignment with our goal to provide exceptional quality and service to our patients, Garland Vision Source has joined OOGP and Vision Web in their mission to create a convenient method of ordering and retrieving contact lenses. Through the integration of OOGP, one of the largest ophthalmic authorized distributing/buying groups in the nation, and Vision Web, an online technology service for the eye care industry, we have been able to streamline the process of ordering and dispensing contact lenses to our patients. With this new process, you can eliminate the task of calling the office to order new contacts and visiting during office hours to pick them up.
Our new online feature is as easy as a few simple steps. Click Here to order contact lenses by clicking on the button and entering your current, valid prescription. Regulations require that you order contacts in year supply bulk; however these will be shipped directly to you with no further effort or cost on your part. Payment must be provided at the time the order is placed via credit card information entry. Your contact lenses will be shipped directly to you at your specified interval. We are pleased to offer and promote this convenient tool to our patients.
Garland Vision Welcomes Dennis Sollie, L.D.O., To Our Staff
 July 23, 2010 — Yellow corn and especially orange corn contain beta-carotene, which in the body converts to vitamin A, a substance important to good eye health. A high carotenoid content causes the intense orange color of high pro-vitamin A maize. Photo: Purdue University/Debra J. Skinner.
Since 250,000 to 500,000 children go blind each year because of vitamin A deficiency (according to the World Health Organization), researchers have been studying how to breed new types of corn that would digest to produce more vitamin A than before.
"We're sort of turbocharging corn with desirable natural variation to make it darker and more nutritious," said Torbert Rocheford, the Patterson Endowed Chair of Translational Genomics and professor of agronomy at Purdue University, in a release. He said also that increasing beta-carotene levels in grains such as corn is an economical way to address the vitamin A deficiency in developing countries.
Humans convert beta-carotene into vitamin A during digestion. Rocheford's group found that reducing the function of a certain gene in corn that inhibits some of that conversion would increase the amount of vitamin A in the body.
Another finding of the research was that boosting the function of that same gene would produce more zeaxanthin, which may protect against macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in people over 55 in industrialized Western countries. So corn distributed there might be altered for that purpose instead.
Orange corn is unusual in the United States and Africa, but in South America and some parts of Asia it is preferred over white corn.
The research findings were published in Nature Genetics in March.
EyeXam iPhone App Provides Eye Tests
 SAN FRANCISCO, June 2010 — EyeXam is a free iPhone app that you can use to test your eyes. Developed by two optometrists and distributed by Global EyeVentures, the application is designed to test visual acuity at distance and near, as well as the ability to distinguish colors.
It also offers an Amsler grid, which helps you find possible blind spots in your visual field, a test to help you find your dominant eye and an astigmatism test. An included eye exercise is designed to help you improve your ability to converge your eyes. And an eye alignment test checks whether your eyes tend to posture outward, inward or normally.
Of course, EyeXam is mostly an educational tool that cannot replace a comprehensive eye exam. But the tests can alert you to a vision problem you might not have noticed before that should be brought up with your eye doctor. If you don't have an eye doctor, you can find one through the application.
During the first month it was available on the Apple iTunes store, EyeXam was downloaded more than 100,000 times and was the second-most downloaded free iPhone application in the medical category.
To download, just visit the iTunes store. You can also watch a video about it on YouTube.
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