Tools for reaching more patients and expanding your practice
Vision Rehabilitation (VR) services can be an important tool to growing and strengthening your practice, whether you are looking to add value to primary eye care services, starting to incorporate VR services into your practice, or already an expert in the field. On this page, you can find VR resources to help you expand and add value to your practice in the following areas:
Currently, our role as eye care physicians is being threatened by insurance plan discrimination, unscrupulous contact lens retailers, and online "refraction tests" that attempt to downplay the value of optometry and in-person comprehensive eye exams. Helping patients with chronic vision impairments regain their independence, health, and quality of life adds value that is clearly visible to patients, dispels the notion that eye care be replaced by online tools, and ultimately increases patient loyalty as well as referrals.
For more VR updates and to be listed on AOA's Doctor Locator as a practice with an emphasis in Vision Rehabilitation, please join the Vision Rehabilitation Advocacy Network.
AOA Resources
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Vision Rehab Topics |
Envision Conference: AOA promotes optometry's role in vision rehabilitation
Oct. 22, 2018
AOA comments on CDC's Proposed Study on Traumatic Brain Injury Disparities in Rural Areas
Aug.07, 2018
AOA Releases Concussion Fact Sheet
Aug. 06, 2018
Low Vision Rehabilitation Tied To Improvement In Several Dimensions Of Visual Function, Research Suggests.
Healio, April 30, 2018
Macular Degeneration: Managing This Vision Condition
U.S. News & World Report, February, 23, 2018
AMD patients should see low vision, medical eye doctors
From February 20, 2108 edition of Healio Primary Care Optometry News
February is Age Related Macular Degeneration + Low Vision Awareness Month
From eyecare.org, February 8, 2018
Study tackles ticklish issue of tallying young athletes with concussions
October 25, 2017 of AOA News
Researchers examine wide range of visual impairments developed by stroke survivors
From October 11, 2017 article by News Medical Life Science
How to add a subspecialty to your practice
Excerpted from page 22 of the September 2017 edition of AOA Focus.