Digital Retinal Imaging

Your eyes are a window to your health. Now your doctor at Visionsource can take a closer look with this Ultra-Widefield Retinal Imaging. Digital retinal imaging devices captures more than 80% of your retina in one image. Traditional methods typically reveal only 10-45% of your retina at one time. The enhanced view increases the ability to detect even the earliest sign of diseases such as:

• Diabetic Retinopathy (damaged blood vessels inside the retina leading to blindness)
• Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
• Glaucoma (increased eye pressure)
• Hypertension (high blood pressure)

IS “20/20″ REALLY ENOUGH?

by Parents Active for Vision Education (P.A.V.E.) What does your optometrist mean when he or she says you are seeing “20/20”? It means that when standing at a distance of 20 feet from the eye chart, you can see the same row of letters that the average person can see at this distance. It is a measure of the sharpness of sight, but does not tell you anything about how your brain is processing what you see. In fact, there are over 20 different skills visual skills that an eye chart does not detect. The visual system is so complicated, it utilizes 65% of ALL our brain pathways. “20/20″ eyesight represents only a very small part of this process.

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