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Digital Eye Strain
Are you getting digital eyestrain from staring at electronic screens all day?
information presented by the Vision Council
Nationwide, nearly one-third of adults spend more than half their waking hours (9+) using a digital device.
Digital device use for Millennials even greater
Among those who were born between 1981 and 1996:
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- Nearly 40 percent spend at least nine hours on digital devices daily.
- Nearly 70 percent report symptoms of digital eyestrain.
- 84 percent own a smartphone.
- 60 percent take their smartphone to bed and use it as an alarm clock.
Source: The Vision Council
What’s the Problem?
Several major issues are caused by Digital screens. First, we tend to blink much less often when viewing electronic screens. This causes exces dryness and imbalance in our eyes, and strain.
Second, digital displays tend to more blue light. This is sometimes call HEV or High-Energy Visible light. Even what appears relatively white on screen is highly blue light spectrum. This blue spectrum has been determined to cause more strain than longer wavelenght colors.
Third, digital images are pixelated and cause our eyes to strain to focus on them.
Other issues that many people deal with are related to background light glare on screens, low light contrast on screens – especially when reading text, and wearing prescription glasses with focal distrances either much closer or farther than screen distance.
Learn more at the Vision Council
Sight Learning – CNN Hero, Yash Gupta
Woodbridge Optometry is proud to be able to donate your unused glasses to a wonderful program that a local student from Woodbridge High School started called Sight Learning. Check out this clip from CNN and see if you can spot Woodbridge Optometry and our favorite employee Bob!
At age 14, Yash Gupta of Irvine, California started Sight Learning, an organization that collects used eyeglasses from optometrists and donates them to organizations that can deliver them to children in need. Since 2011, Gupta has donated 9,500 pairs of glasses, worth nearly $500,000, to young people in Haiti, Honduras, India and Mexico. Woodbridge Optometry is proud to support Sight Learning and young heros like Yash Gupta!
Drivewear
Designed specifically to meet the unique visual demands of the driving task. Drivewear is the first polarized photochromic lens to darken behind the windshield of the car.
BioTears Oral Gel Caps
Oral Support for Normal Tear Film Formation. This is a dietary supplement, available in 120 unit count.
National Eye Institute
The National Eye Institute web page has a wonderful collection of information concerning the functions of the eye. It also has information on eye diseases and links for more in-depth explanations of eye problems.
Optos
Optos offers a new way to evaluate your eye health.
Vision Information – Latest News from Lighthouse International
The AOA is a partner in VisionConnection, an accessible, interactive online resource from Lighthouse International for people who are partially sighted or blind, the professionals who work with them, the families and friends who support them, and anyone looking for the latest information on vision impairment, its prevention and vision rehabilitation.
Vision 2020
Vision 2020 is a worldwide concerted effort designed to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. The program will enable all parties and organizations involved in combating blindness to work in a focused and coordinated way to achieve the common goal of eliminating preventable and treatable blindness.
Healthy People 2010
Healthy People 2010 is the prevention agenda for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
All About Vision
All About Vision Web page is a overall site for information about your vision and visual system. It’s a great place to start your research about your vision questions.
Macular Degeneration Partnership
The Macular Degeneration Partnership (MDP) provides accurate, timely and unbiased information on age-related macular degeneration (AMD). A monthly online newsletter and an email subscription service keep patients and their families up to date on research, experimental treatments and low vision aids.
NVISION Laser Eye Centers
Information on laser vision correction refractive surgery procedures including LASIK, PRK (photorefractive keratectomy), Phakic Intraocular Lens (IOL), CK, LASEK, Monovision and ICL, as well as cataract surgery, glaucoma, and corneal surgery.