Services
At Heritage Vision Center your ocular health and visual performance are our primary concern. We provide vision care for the entire family, including routine eye examinations, glasses and contact lens fitting, treatment and management of eye disease, and surgical vision correction. Our vision correction services aren’t just about clear vision… they’re about healthier vision. That is why we offer a variety of treatment options, including glasses, contact lenses, laser vision correction, and non-surgical corneal refractive therapy (CRT). Other areas of emphasis include:
Children Vision and Learning
Did you know that 80% of everything a child learns, understands, and remembers is acquired through his or her visual system? Vision is very important in the learning process. What’s worse is that one in four children has undiagnosed vision problems that affect learning. Sometimes the problem is misdiagnosed as ADD (attention deficit disorder), ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) or dyslexia. Children maybe suffering from a vision problem if they:
- Struggle with reading
- Grow tired or frustrated with reading
- Can't sit still or stay at a task for any length of time
- Reverse words, numbers or letters
- Frequently lose their place, skips words, or skips lines of text while reading
- Have shown no improvements from medication or tutoring
It is important that children receive comprehensive visual exams starting as early in life as possible. Vision screenings at school are not sufficient as a basis for diagnosing vision problems. A comprehensive exam may find a visual problem missed during screenings, and your eye doctor can recommend treatment. For more information please ask your doctor.
Low Vision
Low vision is a vision condition caused by several eye diseases, including cataracts, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy. Low vision can come in many forms, including loss of central vision, loss of side vision, blurred vision, generalized haze, extreme sensitivity to light, and night blindness.
Low vision should be treated only by a trained optometrist or ophthalmologist specializing in low vision. Low vision often requires different therapeutic treatments than other vision conditions. Doctors who specialize in low vision can examine the patient and recommend treatment which may include therapy and/ or low vision devices. For more information please ask your doctor.
What are Refractive Procedures?
Refractive procedures manipulate the eye to improve vision. Though there are several types of refractive procedures, the most popular is known as LASIK (Laser Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis). LASIK involves reshaping the cornea using incisions and lasers. An incision creates a flap which is folded back. Lasers are then used to reshape the middle layer of the cornea and correct the vision. The flap is folded back and allowed to heal, resulting in much clearer vision. Other procedures include LASEK, PRK, and RK.
Is Refractive Surgery for me?
Not everyone is a candidate for Refractive Surgery. Candidates should be over 18 years of age. If you are pregnant, nursing, or suffering from a number of diseases, you probably are not a good candidate for Refractive Surgery. You are also not eligible if your prescription has changed a great deal over the past year. Talk to your eye doctor about surgery. He will be able discuss your candidacy, the risks you may encounter, and recommend how to proceed.
Is the Procedure Safe?
In rare cases, there have been complications that have arisen after the procedure, including droopy eyelids, constant discomfort, or inability to wear contact lenses, or glare and halos during night vision. In even rarer cases, there have been complications during the procedure.
Sports Vision
“Keep your eye on the ball!”, “Focus on the finish line!”, “Don't lose sight of the green!” If there's one thing that seems to be a key to success in sports, it's vision. But did you know you can improve your performance by improving some aspects of your vision? It's easy to recognize problems, and even easier to solve them. The following are some aspects of vision which can be enhanced via visual training.
Dynamic Visual Acuity is your ability to see objects when they are moving fast. This is important in sports like hockey, racquetball, and tennis.
Visual concentration is your ability to ignore distractions happening around you. Your eyes naturally react to movement in the field or vision from spectators, other participants or the playing environment.
Eye tracking is following an object with your eyes without much head motion. It is important with any sport that involves a fast-moving ball. Good eye tracking will improve balance and reaction time.
Eye-hand-body coordination is how your muscles and limbs react to the information gathered by your eyes. It affects timing and body control.
Peripheral vision is the ability to see what is not directly in front of you, out of the corner of your eye. This allows you to see your teammate to your left or right while focusing on the goal in front of you.
Enhanced contrast is the ability to more quickly distinguished object of regard. This allows a player to identify spin, location, speed, and orientation of a ball. Other applications include spotting fish or other game in various outdoor environments. Ask your doctor for more information.
Vision therapy
Though some vision problems can be treated using corrective lenses, many require a different kind of treatment. Vision therapy is a series of activities or exercises prescribed and monitored by an optometrist to treat problems with visual skill and processing. After a comprehensive eye exam, your eye doctor may determine that vision therapy is the best option for treatment.
Vision therapy can effectively treat eye movement’s disorders, inefficient eye teaming, misaligned eyes, poorly developed vision, focusing problems, and other visual information processing disorders. Ask your doctor for more information.