- Are you doing sports vision evaluations?
- Optometry-led effort yields official definition of ‘Ocular Motor Rehabilitation’
- Brain Injury Awareness Month: How optometric care delivers effective solutions for patients
- New AOA EyeLearn course: Building empathy for patients with diabetes-related eye disease
- Rethinking dizziness after concussion
- Vision therapy yields faster recovery from concussion-related eye condition
- Doctors of optometry ‘critical’ to helping patients with mental illness
- Optometry’s essential role in concussion recovery
- When to consider referring for low-vision rehabilitation
- The role of sex hormones and aging in dry eye disease
- 3 reasons to read AOA’s newest clinical practice guideline
- Identifying reading difficulties in children
- Mobilizing against myopia
- New AOA clinical guideline puts focus on elevating care of glaucoma patients
- Tips for reinforcing optometry’s role in the broader health care system
- Vision loss makes list of 14 risk factors for dementia
- The ‘gatekeepers of primary eye care’
- Myopia report calls for disease classification, new federal policies
- High-tech solutions for low vision
- Optometrists play an integral role in assessing and treating patients with traumatic brain injuries.
- Primary care of the stroke patient
- Research on eye aberrations not abstract to award-winning scientists
- AOA, CooperVision mobilize to ‘disrupt the status quo,’ advance new standard of care for children with myopia
- What do the experts say on genetic testing for IRDs?
- Pediatric keratoconus prevalence higher than believed, may change care approach
- Making blurry vision clear
- Unblurring the lines
- Appreciating optometry’s value to patients with diabetes and their primary care physicians
- 9 benefits of introducing laser procedures into your practice
- 5 considerations if you’re thinking about adding laser procedures to your practice
- Optometrist-performed YAG capsulotomies shown effective, safe and beneficial for patients
- Proof not positive yet on low-dose atropine for myopia in children
- For 128 million U.S. presbyopes, doctors of optometry can provide treatment options
- What’s up, doc? Can a dietary supplement reverse patient cataracts?
- Legal blindness in America
- AOA webinar addresses concerns about myopia management
- AOA serving patients through research in optometry
- Marijuana sensibilities changing fast: Are you ready for patients’ questions?
- Buzz builds for AOA virtual ePosters event
- New AOA adult eye guideline
- New technology for the advanced AMD patient
- Interprofessional communication for diabetic eye care
- Contact lens experts weigh in on gaps in consumer knowledge
- Align your team on binocular vision disorders
- How to better manage dry eye disease
- eyes the brain and learning
- Can vision intervention slow onset of dementia
- New independent task force recommendation on glaucoma screening underwhelms
- Gene therapy vision rehabilitation for IRDs
- 2022 contact lens controversies
- The latest research from AOA members
- Caring for patients with special needs
- New discoveries aid understanding of the visual system
- Don’t let the pressure get to you or your patients
- How technology has changed recommendations for visually impaired children
- 12 ways to provide better care for patients with prediabetes and diabetes
- Alzheimers and eyes
- Level up your diabetes care with specialists, services collaboration
- Behind the lens
- Contact lens developments regarding keratoconus
- Managing the care of patients with contact lens-related dry eye
- Lens-based strategies to address reading issues due to mild, disease-related vision loss
- Study shines light on optogenetics in retinitis pigmentosa
- surgical procedures courses
- Genetic Testing and Gene Therapy
- low vision in your practice
- Low percentage of patients with diabetes adhere to key self-care practices
- EBO to produce new glaucoma clinical practice guideline
- details of visual functions immediately following marijuana use
- Understanding Photophobia in mTBI
- New myopia management guidance released
- The challenges of maintaining a healthy tear film
- Integrating models of diabetic eye care
- Dry Eye and Productivity
- Contact lens innovation delivers opportunity
- How face masks affect the eyes
- Marijuana dispensaries still blow smoke over glaucoma effects
- Conjunctival Lymphangiectasia and Fabry
- Techniques to enhance contrast
- Americans remain at high risk for vision loss
- Stimulating eye and vision research
- Allergic conjunctivitis in a COVID-19 world
- Atropine in myopia control
- sleep patients ocular health
- CDC US coronavirus spread expected
- Demystifying dizziness
- Optometry and Glaucoma patients
- 5 reasons why doctors should use AOA diabetes guideline
- Growing epidemic of adolescents and young adults with prediabetes
- Improving scanning efficiency of individuals with homonymous hemianopia
- second edition of diabetes clinical practice guideline
- Pupil patterns in youth a phenomenon
- Study high school sports concussions underscores optometry role in care
- Prototype imager of tear film sublayers opens eyes on dry eye
- Retinal measurements hold clues to Alzheimers disease
- reversing prediabetes to normoglycemia can lessen microvascular complication risk
- Detecting the signs of autism at earlier age using visual cues
- Eye disorder CRISPR technology
- Addressing elderly vision impairment
- The AMD aspirin balancing act
- Study looks at what patients understand about their glaucoma diagnoses
- Vision Rehabilitation Clinical Pearls Lens Rx Prescribing for the Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury
- Real partners in diabetes care
- Amblyopia More than meets the eye
- New mild TBI guideline for children provides opportunity for doctors of optometry
- Reading corneal signs
- Eyes on Alzheimers disease
- Study looks at potential of suppressing ocular cancer in children
- Doctors of optometry are members of post-concussion team
- Glaucoma & Exercise
- The ABCs of MGD
- When T-cells go bad
- Study opens eyes to Alzheimers disease risk
- Understanding MGD
- Sjogren’s dry eye disease and depression
- Are patches the answer to amblyopia
- Oranges may allay AMD risk Pulp fact or fiction
- myopiatech
- Cognitive Decline
- Myopia Genes Discovered
- Link between diabetes and MGD
- alzheimers clues could be found using eye scan
- Genetic markers may help predict elevated IOP
- Ebola vector-borne diseases rear ugly heads again
- Blue lights link to prostate and breast cancers
- Can dyed contact lenses help color perception in CVD patients
- Omega 3 and Dry Eyes
- Glaucoma-Cannabinoid NP Drop
- Genetic Testing for AMD
- Premature Babies Low Birthweight Eyes
- ASD & Accommodative Function
- Stem Cells and Wet AMD
- Sjogren Awareness
- Brain Injury Awareness
- Sleep apneas interplay with corneal hysteresis
- New blood pressure guideline
- Low vision patient future
- Retinoblastoma-detecting ocular cancer in children
- Winter Dry Eye
- Low Vision and Blindness to Double
- New guidelines detecting retinoblastoma in children
- Glaucoma protein biomarker
- Risk for normal-tension glaucoma rises
- Peripheral reaction time faster in deaf adults
- New therapeutic target could reduce diabetic retinopathy
- diabetes on the rise among the young
- Trabeculoplasty Commentary
- Seniors near vision loss dementia risk linked
- Can frequent anti VEGF injections increase glaucoma surgery risk
- Study stresses stress test in treating patients with AMD
- Contact lens helps predict speed of glaucoma progression
- Unique retinal cell dysfunction triggers myopia
- Preeclampsia years later still takes toll
- How tilted optic discs may affect myopic eyes
- New eye test is early detector of diabetes
- Anti VEGF injections may not work for allglaucoma sooner
- New technique could diagnose glaucoma sooner
- Myopia incidence piques control efforts initiatives
- Study links visual impairment to physical and cognitive function declines
- Benefits unfamiliarity proves barrier to diabetes care
- Eyes on Alzheimers
- Association found between TBI and neurodegenerative conditions
- Spotting the link between vision problems and ADHD
- Treating the digital eye
- Statins show continued potential as treatment for dry AMD
- How doctors of optometry can diagnose a rare disorder
- Could eye drops be an alternative treatment to cataract surgery
- Researchers zero in on potential dry AMD treatment
- Ranibizumab proves effective to treat proliferative diabetic retinopathy
- Study shows some drivers with glaucoma naturally adapt
- Doctors of optometry a crucial component in cataract care
- Be part of the national dialogue about diabetes
- Under pressure addressing hypertension
- Gene therapy successful in treating rare retinal disorder
- The lowdown on treating low vision patients
- New study calls attention to importance of carotenoids
- 5 things doctors of optometry should know about concussions
- Can a supplement fight diabetic retinopathy
- Outdoor activity may reduce risk for myopia in children
- 3 reasons comprehensive exams matter for diabetes
- Diabetes and Prediabetes
- Vitamin C may slow progress of cataracts
- Multifocal contact lens effective at treating myopia in kids
- New tool educates and motivates patients with diabetes related eye disease
- Myopia Its in your genes too
- Out of the box thinking leads to potential glaucoma treatment
- Doctors of optometry have big role in catching giant cell arteritis before blindness
- Cataract surgery lessens death risk
- Novel glaucoma therapy One ring to help them all
- Common glaucoma drugs may affect IOP measurements
- Gene mutation uncovers potential treatment for rare form of pediatric glaucoma
- How astigmatism affects reading fluency
- FDA approves first corneal cross linking system for treatment
- Cataracts and UV exposure in driver-side windows
- Virtual model aids diabetic retinopathy progression understanding
- doctors of optometry AMD assessments comparable to ophthalmologistsoutcomes
- Parkinsons detectable through eye exam
- Are sleep apnea and asthma linked to keratoconus
- Not a dry eye
- Eye on head injuries
- Risk for macular degeneration linked to low levels of vitamin D
- Tears now fears Zika persists in eyes
- Myopia Controlling the heretofore uncontrollable
- advancing keratoconus care
- visual dysfunction after brain injury
- Study detects early biomarkers for risk of developing diabetic retinopathy
- Prevalence of Undiagnosed AMD
- Daily use of steroid drops increases risk for ocular hypertension
- Zikababy
- New study dry eye disease
- Encyclopedia of dry eye disease released
- Clinical Pearls for Seasonal Allergies
- Doctors of optometry less likely to prescribe seldom needed antibiotics for conjunctivitis
- T cells hold promise of treatment for preemies born with eye condition
- Youth Concussions
- New imaging techniques detect earlystage Alzheimer’s disease
Balance, vision and the risk of falls
June 28, 2026
How optometrists can help patients protect themselves against falling.
Key Takeaways
- Optometrists are excellent observers, and by adding a few balance tests, they can provide a much-needed service to their patients.
- High-risk patients are those with vision loss, glaucoma, Parkinson’s, traumatic brain injury, concussion, stroke and diabetes.
- Making the appropriate referral can have an important impact on the lives of these patients.