THE VISION POST
A practical blog for professionals
Visual Processing in A Learning Disable Child
Roshni Sengupta, M.Optom Assistant Professor, Sushant University, India Visual-Cognitive Functions and Learning Disability: The ability of the brain to absorb, analyse, and respond on visual inputs is referred to as visual perception. In any condition, the...
Mobile & Desktop Application for The Visually Impaired – Helping Them to Perceive What They Canât See
Ashish Gangwar, B. Optom Optometrist, Dr. Shroffâs Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India In this fast-moving world where independence is every individualâs priority, can we imagine surviving without our eyes? But they are visually impaired and doing their...
A New Era of Smart Contact Lenses
Priyanka Singh, B.Optom Fellow optometrist, Dr Shroffâs Charity Eye Hospital, India Contact lens is an artificial device which covers the anterior most part of cornea. Generally, we use contact lenses for refractive error correction, therapeutic and cosmetic...
Challenges for Low Vision in Retinitis Pigmentosa
Achint Kaur, B.Optom Optometry Intern, Dr Shroffâs Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India We all want to live independently but living with low vision is not easy, these patients have a hard time coping with how they will reserve their independence as their...
A Simple and Effective Method to Calculate the Corneal Densitometry
Swanandi Gawde, B. Optom, PGDOVS Research Optometrist, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India Densitometry is the quantitative measurement of corneal transparency. This noninvasive scheimpflug tomography-based technique helps to measure the health of the...
Psychological Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury from A Neurobiological Perspective
Pritam Dutta, M.Optom, FAAO Clinical Optometry Practitioner, Chandraprabha Eye Hospital, Assam, India Background The Concussion in Sport Group (CISG) recognised in the most recent reiteration of the Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport that psychological...
Looking Beyond the Optic Nerve Head in Normal-Tension Glaucoma
Khaarthiyaa Lokanathan, B.Optom Undergraduate Research Student, Elite School of Optometry & SASTRA, Tamil Nadu Glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON) with normal Intraocular Pressure (IOP) and an evident visual field defect is considered as Normal-Tension...
Vision Therapy for Straatsma Syndrome
Indira Rengarajan, B. Optom M.Optom, The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, Chennai, India Introduction: Clinically Straatsma syndrome is a triad of Myelinated Retinal Nerve Fiber (MRNF), Myopia, and amblyopia, which can have additional associations such as...
Can double images be corrected by contact lens?
Lakshmi Priya R.S, B. Optom Aravind Fellowship in Clinical Optometry, Aravind Eye Care System, Chennai, India As odd as it may seem, many people suffer from double vision which is when the eye perceives two images instead of one. Some of them can experience...
Understanding & Preventing Digital Eye Strain
Sapam Bishwamitra Singh, Bachelor in Optometry M.Optom. (Student), Bansara Institute of Ophthalmic Sciences, Shillong, India Overview Digital eye strain refers to visual disturbance or ocular discomfort that results after prolonged use of a computer, mobile...
Human Echolocation â How Blind People See With Sound
Satyam Jha , Bachelor In Clinical Optometry Student, Pailan College of Management and Technology, Kolkata, India We live in a loud world. We donât usually notice every sound because most of it is constantly tuned out by our brains. The unimportant noise which...
Lighting Up the Life of The Visually Impaired
Dillibai J, Bachelorâs in Optometry Aravind Fellowship in Clinical Optometry, Aravind Eye Care System, Chennai According to the WHO-International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) vision report 2019, 2.2 billion people worldwide have vision...
To Wear or Not to Wear Blue Light Filters; Thatâs The Question
Agatha K Saji, B. Optom M.Optom student, Elite School of Optometry â SASTRA University, Chennai, India This world has gone through numerous dynamics over the past two decades, an inevitable change seems to be a promising aspect of technology. (1) Even though...
Orthokeratology: A Blessing For Myopia
Ashish Gangwar, B.Optom Optometrist, Dr. Shroffâs Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India Orthokeratology refers to the creation of specially designed rigid gas permeable contact lenses to reduce or eliminate refractive error temporarily by reshaping the corneal...
Myocilin & Its Role in Pathogenesis of Juvenile Open Angle Glaucoma
Tathagata Roy, Bachelorâs in Optometry Intern Optometrist, Dr. Shroffâs Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, India Compared to adult onset primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), the Juvenile open angle glaucoma (JOAG) is an autosomal dominant inheritance. Patients...
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