WHAT IS MYOPIA in Sacramento
Myopia, commonly known as nearsightedness, is a common refractive error that causes distant objects to appear blurry. Myopia symptoms include difficulty seeing objects that are far away, eyestrain, headaches, and frequent squinting.
Left untreated, moderate to high myopia can significantly increase a person's risk of developing sight-threatening eye diseases later in life. As the level of myopia increases, so does the risk of eye disease.
What Causes Myopia?
There are several factors that can contribute to the development of myopia. Genetics play a role, as myopia tends to run in families. Spending a lot of time reading or looking at screens and doing other forms of near work can also contribute to the development of myopia.
Myopia Treatment
At Visions Optometry, we offer myopia management (also called myopia control) treatments to slow the rate of myopia progression or even halt its progression altogether.
The goal of myopia management is to slow down its progression because myopia increases the risk of eventually developing eye diseases like glaucoma, cataracts, retinal detachment, and macular degeneration. The higher the progression of myopia, the greater the risk. The earlier your child begins myopia management, even for mild myopia, the greater the benefits.
If you’re concerned that your child’s vision is deteriorating rapidly, or even if your child has mild myopia, contact Visions Optometry today. The earlier a child starts myopia management treatments, the better the results.
We can help preserve your child's long-term healthy vision and reduce their risk of future eye disease. Call Visions Optometry to schedule your child's myopia consultation!
Vision for Life – it is our purpose, it is our passion, it is our responsibility.
It is a vital approach to your complete eyecare. It is because you matter, your eyes matter and eyecare matters. Our children matter and their future matters.
My husband, Dr. Thomas Murphy and I live, play, practice and raise our family of 7 in the greater Sacramento area. Over his 45 years and my almost 25 years of practicing in our community, we continue to pursue this mission of delivering eyecare that not only allow you to see and perform today but also into tomorrow and beyond. Our incredible team of doctors, opticians, technicians and leaders are all on this journey to deliver you the very best in vision and eye health.
For children – Don’t just correct – protect our children’s eyes for life! There is an ever-increasing epidemic of Myopia or nearsightedness in children today. Myopia is considered a progressive disease and there are no safe levels of myopia. Short term myopia may mean that your child struggle with seeing objects far away like the board at school. Long term this exponentially increases our children’s risk of sight threatening diseases as they age.
Correction in glasses or contact lenses is often not enough! Protect means not only providing clear vision today but providing the care and treatments that looks at their vision and eye health tomorrow and beyond. Protecting our children’s eyes means treatment plans, strategies and methodologies that slow down the rate of progression of their myopia. Each diopter of prescription that we can control is important as each diopter that our child progresses in near-sightedness leads to an exponential risk in eye diseases such as myopic maculopathy, retinal detachments, glaucoma and cataracts as our children progress into adulthood.
This is the level of eyecare that our children need and deserve! Taking action for our children’s eyes today is critical to their vision and eye health tomorrow! Our Myopia Management Clinic will insure that we give your child the best opportunity in vision and eye health. Start this journey of vision for life by scheduling a comprehensive eye exam with one of our doctors today!