Computer Vision Syndrome - Tucson's #1 Optometrist
Nothing is more important to us than your overall eye health. We offer comprehensive eye examinations that allow us to pinpoint any changes in your vision, then correct them with glasses, contacts, or a combination of both. We are able to detect or treat eye health and refractive conditions such as infections, ocular allergies, dry eye, glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and computer vision syndrome.
We have a full service optical and contact lens dispensary. Our staff has years of experience helping patients pick the right designs, materials, and coatings in order to optimize the vision through their glasses. These include a wide selection of lens designs and features including but not limited to; progressives or bifocal lens designs, anti-reflective, scratch resistant and UV coatings, photochromic lenses such as Transitions, polycarbonate, trivex, and high index materials, and many others.
Children and Computer Vision Syndrome
In the past decade, computer use among children in the United States has become pervasive. Consider these statistics: 94 percent of American families with children have a computer in the home with access to the Internet...
Computer Eyestrain: 10 Steps for Relief
With so many of us using computers at work, computer eye strain has become a major job-related complaint. Studies show that eye strain and other bothersome visual symptoms occur in 50 to 90 percent of computer workers.
These problems can range from physical fatigue, decreased productivity, and increased numbers of work errors, to minor annoyances like eye twitching and red eyes.
Computer Glasses
When you work at a computer for any length of time, it’s common to experience eye strain, blurred vision, red eyes, and other symptoms of computer vision syndrome (CVS). This is because the visual demands of computer work are unlike those associated with most other activities.
Computer Vision Syndrome
Computers, tablets, e-readers, smartphones, and other electronic devices with visual displays all can cause tired eyes, digital eye strain, and computer vision syndrome. And computer-related eye problems have become widespread: according to The Vision Council, nearly 70 percent of American adults experience some form of digital eye strain.
Computer Vision Syndrome Q & A
Q: What to do about tired eyes from too much reading and computer? — Teachers from Salter Elementary, Talladega, Alabama
A: This is really a common problem nowadays. See your eye doctor and get a computer vision correction that will help you focus more accurately and with less effort. When prescribed properly, these glasses also can help you read printed material with greater ease, and the lenses can have tints and coatings to make your eyes feel a lot better!