Children with first prescription before the age of 10 years showed the strongest progression and a significantly final Spherical Equivalent (SER). All children who developed SER ≤−3 D at 10 years were highly myopic as adults, children who had SER between −1.5 D and −3 D at 10 years had 46.0% risk of high myopia, and children with SER between −0.5 D and −1.5 D had 32.6% risk of high myopia.
https://bjo.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/24/bjophthalmol-2020-316234
New player for measuring eye length with myopia management software. The Lenstar is a well-known eye length measurement device and is now available with the Myopia Update.
MyopiaCare and Myappia inside.
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Your MyopiaCare Team
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Wow!!! The Myopia Control Management group have passed the milestone of 1000 members
Please share our community with your colleagues.
Soft contact lenses for myopia control in children is safe. Clinical charts review of almost 1000 children over more than 2 years.
Direct link to study
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/opo.12753
Vivior – Objektive Messdaten zur Ermittlung der Risikofaktoren bei Myopie
Mit dem Vivior Monitor werden erstmalig individuelle Sehverhaltensdaten während einer mehrtägigen Tragezeit gewonnen.Darauf basierend können personalisierte Sehkorrekturlösungen umgesetzt werden. Aufgrund der objektiven Beurteilung der Verhaltensrisiken wird im Myopie Bericht eine persönliche und Algorithmus gestützte Verhaltensempfehlung für das Kind abgegeben. Mehr Informationen unter:
www.vivior.com
https://news.myopiacare.com/vivior-objektive-messdaten-zur-ermittlung-der-risikofaktoren-bei-myopie/
Interesting podcast talk between Review of Myopia Management and the leader of the AAO Myopia task force.
Excited to see the white papers and cooperation of the international associations in ophthalmology.
https://reviewofmm.com/myopia-management-close-up-richard-l-abbott-md-on-the-aaos-myopia-task-force/
Myopia.Care now available in Hebrew
Thanks to Oded Zvibach, BOptom, Optometrist, Professional Services Manager and Training, Crystal Optic Industries from Israel for the translation into Hebrew!
Instagram: @odedzvibach
LinkedIn: Oded Zvibach
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Efficacy in myopia control
No single method of treatment shows clear superiority with the best of orthokeratology, SMCLs, spectacles and atropine showing similar effect with some caveats.
Can Levodopa slows ocular growth in a dose dependent with a similar potency to atropine, a common inhibitor of ocular growth in humans? Study on chicks
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31797988/
A farsighted view for myopia, by Dr. Thomas Aller
https://reviewofmm.com/investigational-and-early-stage-myopia-interventions-a-farsighted-view/
Johnson & Johnson Vision’s Approach to Myopia Management with Noel Brennan
Is late Sleeping a risk factor for myopia development?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74348-7
Is optometry ready for myopia control? Education and other barriers to the treatment of myopia. by Saoirse McCrann, Ian Flitcroft,, James Loughman
Second licensing of Bausch&Lomb this week for myopia therapy products. A new player enters the myopia https://www.biospectrumasia.com/news/101/16936/bausch-health-bhvi-join-hands-for-myopia-control-contact-lens.html
Bausch Health licenses Eyenovia’s new treatment option to reduce childhood myopia progression
Recommandation officielle de l’Association française d’ophtalmologie sur le contrôle de la myopie
Téléchargement recommandé
The Brilliant Futures programme from CooperVision Misight is now available in the UK
Essilor announces the first data from the study of its new Stellest lens for myopia management.
More than 60% slow-down in myopia progression when compared to the control group wearing single vision lenses
Really good editorial written by Mark Bullimore in #ContactLens #Update on the recently published Blink Study by #University #Ohio
BLINK: Don’t Miss It
The eye clinic here in #Lausanne has launched a new brochure and website with lots of information about #children’s #eyes.
Really well done with lots of information. Not only for those concerned 😉
Available in 4 languages 🇨🇭 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
https://www.theeyesofchildren.org/
https://www.dieaugenderkinder.org/
https://www.lesyeuxdesenfants.org/
https://www.gliocchideibambini.org/
About #myopia:
https://www.theeyesofchildren.org/maladies-de-la-vue/myopia/
Does myopia increase during #Covid19? Read the review
Just published Shared by @MarkBullimore
New study by the #Tübingen research team on #multifocal lenses and accommodation
Although we would like physical activities to be preventative of #myopia progression, this is currently not confirmed by #science.
New Blog article. Written by Amisha Pau about her take on Myopia Management on our blog
