HEARING 4 LIFE, LLC
GREENACRES, FLORIDA

efforts including FREE vision screenings, Lighthouse of Manasota, Southeastern Guide Dogs, Lions Club Recycling of eyeglasses, and cataract surgery mission trips. The Eye Associates feels it is important that each patient is able to receive the care he or she deserves for an improved quality of life. That’s why we are pleased to offer CareCredit. CareCredit offers numerous credit plans and repayment options, including ‘0’ interest and extended payment plans. If you would like to speak with a member of our helpful staff at The Eye Associates about our procedures, financing options, or any other aspect of our practice, please , Sjogren’s Syndrome, and other corneal defects, we now offer advanced dry eye treatment with Autologous Serum Tears. We are one of only a few in the area to offer this advanced technology. Your natural tears are made up of key components not found in artificial tears. Since Serum Tears are made with your own blood, they have more similarities to one’s natural tears, and are by nature non-allergenic and superior to artificial tears. Many of our patients have seen a significant improvement in their condition with this revolutionary therapy. Call 1-866-865-2020 to schedule an appointment with one of our Board Certified Eye Physicians to see if ProKera could help you. Wear sunglasses and hats. These help protect your eyes from UV light, which can promote the development of cataracts and retinal disease as well as protect your skin. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. These foods contain antioxidants, which have been proven to prevent the progression of some eye diseases. Digital devices are making our lives easier, but they also make our eyes work a lot harder. While all this technology is great for our productivity and the way we connect with others, it has a downside that most people don’t think about – they create visual demands that our eyes were not designed for. The constant refocusing required to go back and forth from digital screens to the world around us takes its toll on our eyes, and our bodies in general. We spend hours daily staring at screens, leaning in to see them better, and taking in the blue light that they emit. All this leads to vision problems, so much so that there is now a term applied to the effects – Digital Eye Strain. The Zeiss Office lens Book is for reading whereby the Office lens Desk is for a workstation environment. Another option is the Gunnar computer/gaming glasses, also by Zeiss. Even the Individual Freeform Progressive lens can be customized for your visual needs; offering increased productivity and relief from these everyday symptoms. Another new concern is the amount of exposure to harmful blue light from LED lights, digital devices, TV screens, and computers. For your protection, ZEISS has developed DuraVision BlueProtect that offers protection from this harmful blue light. Blue light concerns range from the disruption of sleep patterns to retinal damage. The American Macular Degeneration Foundation warns that evidence suggests that long-term exposure to blue light may contribute to photochemical damage of the retina (known as “blue light hazard”). So your eyeglasses can do more than just help you to see. These new products can actually help with the health of your eyes. As we age, so do our eyes. Starting at age 40, many of us come to the shocking realization that the print on the menus seems smaller than it used to be, and the numbers on your caller ID are almost impossible to read now. You can’t escape the fact that you have become presbyopic. Presbyopia is a natural progressive condition that makes reading and doing close work more difficult. Even people that have had perfect eyesight their entire lives find they can no longer read printed materials at normal distances. The good news is that glasses, and contact lenses can help people see better. Many of our patients like to store their drops in the refrigerator, because feeling the coolness of the drops in the eye provides assurance that they have been put in correctly. Some people find cool drops more soothing as well. But it is very important to always store them in their own special location, If something more toxic, such as drain cleaner, battery acid, ammonia-based cleaning products, drywall or concrete dust gets into your eyes, you should immediately rinse and then go to the emergency room nearest to you. You can significantly improve your vision after dark by adding an anti-reflective coating to your regular glasses. Reflections decrease vision and safety, so by adding an anti-reflective coating to the lenses of your glasses, you can reduce glare, annoying reflections, and the halos often seen around lights. You will find this to be especially helpful when driving during rainstorms. Drivewear Sunglasses by Transition as well as PrescripSun Lenses by Carl Zeiss Vision are great choices to keep you safer. No doctors appointment should be a one-way conversation. We encourage you to take notes and ask the following questions to help you get the most out of your time with the physician: To help ensure that you receive the best possible care, at your next eye exam you should let your doctor know about: for help with my daughter. Because of the extra time he took and his thoroughness, he was able to determine what was causing my daughters vision problems when other doctors could not. The diagnosis found something that required her to seek other medical attention. She is now in the care of a neurologist and I am confident she will get the added care she needs going forward. We are truly blessed to have you as her doctor. You certainly have my permission to use my comments asserting what an excellent practice you have, and how you were able to handle my situation with understanding and fine medical care. The front office staff was most helpful in calming my anxieties. “As a workers compensation insurance adjuster, I sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week minimum. I spend my day managing the care for over 200 critically injured workers with injuries ranging from chronic pain conditions to paraplegics who need 24 care. Recently my company felt that having 2 computer screens would help to increase productivity. After staring at 2 screens, one new and one old with different contrasts for 40hours a week I could not see straight anymore. I have had some health issues over the past few years and have suffered from retinal hemorrhaging, severe eye fatigue, and migraine auras which cause a visual disturbance. I have also had LASIK as I was considered legally blind, although I am no longer legally blind I still require eye glasses. As a result of the LASIK it is a common side-effect to suffer from dry eye. To complicate things, when working on a computer we blink less often which only aggravates a dry eye condition. My mom, in her research of all things to make her daughter feel better, came across glasses used to block the blue light emitted from computers. After more research we came to find out that a company called Gunnar makes the blue light blocking glasses with a prescription. Luckily right in our home of Sun City we discovered that Eye Associates had Gunnar glasses available. I have been using my Gunnar glasses for almost a month now. My computer screens although they have different contrasts, look the same with my Gunnar’s and I have not had one visually induced migraine. At the end of the day my eyes are no longer dry and now I can even tolerate getting on the computer at home in the evenings. I will not work on a computer without my Gunnar’s ever again. Thank you Eye Associates!” K. Harmon