DISEASES AND CONDITIONS
Are you doing sports vision evaluations?
Having baseline data is critical when monitoring athletes before and after TBI.
Balance, vision and the risk of falls
How optometrists can help patients protect themselves against falling.
Optometry-led effort yields official definition of ‘Ocular Motor Rehabilitation’
Optometrists are foundational to the management of post-mild traumatic brain injury vision dysfunction.
Brain Injury Awareness Month: How optometric care delivers effective solutions for patients
Members of the AOA’s Vision Rehabilitation Committee share clinical tools and insights for brain injury and vision.
New AOA EyeLearn course: Building empathy for patients with diabetes-related eye disease
Self-paced course highlights disparities, unconscious bias and opportunities to build trust.
Rethinking dizziness after concussion
Vision plays a pivotal—and often overlooked—role in post-concussion dizziness. Here’s why doctors of optometry should be key members of the care team.
Vision therapy yields faster recovery from concussion-related eye condition
Study overturns “wait and see” approach, showing office-based treatment improves convergence insufficiency outcomes.
Doctors of optometry ‘critical’ to helping patients with mental illness
A new report from the AOA’s Health Policy Institute outlines how doctors of optometry can support mental health.
Optometry’s essential role in concussion recovery
Advocating for comprehensive eye exams not only helps provide better care for concussion patients, but also helps create a powerhouse referral network, says Amanda Nanasy, O.D., a member of the AOA’s Sports & Performance Vision Committee.
When to consider referring for low-vision rehabilitation
This Low Vision Awareness Month—and year-round—know when to refer, how to find the right provider and other considerations to help patients maintain their quality of life.
The role of sex hormones and aging in dry eye disease
Anna Tichenor, O.D., Ph.D., Indiana University School of Optometry, is the recipient of the 2024 AOA Investigator Initiated Research Award. The award is designed to inspire future research. For Dr. Tichenor, the honor is about improving patients’ quality of life.
3 reasons to read AOA’s newest clinical practice guideline
WATCH the chair of the AOA’s Evidence-based Optometry Committee offer recommendations and clinical notes from Care of the Patient with Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma, First Edition.