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Eye Medicine - Vision Health
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How to Improve Your Child's Eyesight Naturally: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide
by Janet Goodrich PHD
[FEBRUARY 2004]
A practical workbook for parents who want to improve the eyesight of their children and themselves.
- Includes detailed instructions for reversing the most common eyesight problem of blur
- Presents over 90 playful and creative exercises that apply to age groups from infant to adult
- Offers practical information on dealing with doctors and common diagnoses
- Includes tips on how nutrition, environment, and daily habits can improve eyesight
- New Edition of Help Your Child to Perfect Eyesight Without Glasses
- 213 b&w illustrations
How to Improve Your Child's Eyesight Naturally should be a staple reference book for every household with children and adults who wish to preserve and improve their eyesight. This comprehensive resource teaches parents how to develop personalized programs for their child's specific vision needs, from erasing astigmatism to removing the need for glasses at all.
Filled with practical and imaginative exercises as well as ideas on how to keep these tasks fun for children, this book offers everything parents need to improve a child's vision: detailed instructions for reversing eyesight blur, creative activities appropriate for each age group, tips for adjusting living environments to support healthy vision, easy-to-understand explanations of common diagnoses, and hints for dealing with doctors. The 90 scientifically based vision games, such as "Zoo Train" and "Birds on a Wire," are fun, age-appropriate, and include corresponding songs to reinforce good visual habits.
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Visual Fitness: Seven Minutes to Better Eyesight and Beyond
by David L. Cook OD
[FEBRUARY 2004]
Through trained behavioral optometrist David Cook's simple exercises and tests, the productive 7-minute-a-day program outlined in this breakthrough book works as a personal trainer for improving the brain-to-eye connection necessary to help poor eyesight sufferers to see deeper, longer, smaller, faster, to absorb more information, and to achieve a whole new outlook on life.
THIS BOOK HELPS ELIMINATE:
- "internet eyes"
- mental fatigue
- double vision
- blurriness
- physical exhaustion
- poor hand-to-eye coordination
- and headaches
AND IMPROVE:
- peripheral and night vision
- driving ability
- athletics
- dexterity
- coordination
- endurance
- sleeping habits
- and confidence
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What I Forgot to Ask at the Eye Doctor's Office
by Kevin T. Snead
[AUGUST 2003]
What I Forgot To Ask at the Eye Doctor's Office is a collection of the most commonly discussed questions over twenty years of optometric practice from Dr. Kevin Snead. It contains down to earth explanations of the most misunderstood ideas and terms along with lots of fun and informative details about eyes and vision that most people never know.
Learn what astigmatism really is. Learn where those little spots in your vision come from. Get the scoop on the latest laser vision corrections. Find out what is actually happening in all those tests in your eye exam. All this and much more in an entertaining easy to use format, arranged by the topics you would ask about as a patient.
Contact lenses, eye exercises, visual effects of common health conditions,optical illusions, depth perception and other visual phenomena; it's all there!
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Dr. Douglass' Complete Guide to Better Vision
by William Campbell Douglass
[JUNE 2003]
"Eyes. They are two of our most precious assets. And everybody wants them to work perfectly. I know I do. When they don't, life becomes proportionally more difficult to the degree that they don't work. Thanks to modern technology, though, much can be done to help the weaker and diseased eye. But is modern technology the end-all of eye treatment? I hardly think so. People have been dealing with eye problems since the earliest days of his creation, and eyeglasses, contacts, and laser surgery are all relatively new. Now, don't get me wrong. Many of the latest advances in eye treatment are absolutely marvelous and we'll be discussing some of those in this report. Because if you don't have a particular eye problem now, there's a good chance you probably will somewhere down the road. If you decided to wait until you have the problem, it may be too late. And a little prevention goes a long way. Our eyesight will deteriorate with age: Decreased visual acuity and the need for glasses, cataracts, and eventually macular degeneration are an inevitable part of the aging process in most people. That isn't a pleasant thought, but it is reality. I've included in this book information about how the eye works, brief descriptions of various common eye conditions, traditional remedies to eye problems, and a few simple suggestions that may help you maintain your eyesight for years to come."
-- William Campbell Douglass II, MD
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Eye Care Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information About Eye Care and Eye Disorders
by Amy L. Sutton (Editor), Kimberly Williams Shaw
[APRIL 2003]
This reference provides information about eye anatomy and preventive vision care. Extracts from publications issued by government agencies and various organizations give information on symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of refractive disorders and eye diseases and conditions. There is also information on current research and clinical trials, plus a glossary and a list of organizations.
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The Eye Book: A Complete Guide to Eye Disorders and Health
by Gary H. Cassel, Michael D. Billig, Harry G. Randall
[MAY 1998]
A comprehensive reference to help people care for their eyes and protect their vision—with the latest information on the changes and diseases that occur with aging.
When all is well with our eyes, most of us take them for granted. But when our vision is blurred, or our eyes are itchy and watery, it's hard to concentrate on anything but our eyes. In The Eye Book, three eye care specialists present a comprehensive reference to help readers care for their eyes and protect their vision, with special attention to changes and diseases that occur in the adult years.
After detailing how the various parts of the eye work together so we can see, the authors review everything that can go wrong—from myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism to the major disorders of cataracts, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration. They also thoroughly describe each part of the eye and the problems that can develop, from the irritation of itchy eyelids and conjunctivitis to emergency situations such as a detached retina. They describe the signs and symptoms of all these problems and how to deal with them, including when to apply a warm compress—and when to head to the emergency room. Medical and surgical treatment of both minor eye irritations and major diseases are explained in detail, so readers know where to turn and what to expect.
The authors also tell readers what happens during an eye examination and how to recognize an eye emergency. They explain all about eyeglasses, including the various kinds of bifocals, and describe the care and maintenance of contact lenses in a way that makes wearing them a viable option for anyone who wishes to do so. They detail the special concerns of people with systemic diseases such as diabetes, and indicate how common medications—from antibiotics and antidepressants to tamoxifen—affect the eyes. The pros and cons of refractive surgery are discussed, as are the special problems of people with low vision.
An Appendix lists medications used to treat eye conditions and the side effects of those medications. The book is fully illustrated with 55 line drawings and includes a Symptoms Index that will direct readers to sections of the book which describe the possible causes of the specific symptoms they are experiencing.
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