The College supports the growing number of optometrists offering myopia management (sometimes known as myopia control) interventions to reduce myopia progression. Read our guidance.
This report provides a review of the evidence available for myopia management interventions. It identifies gaps and provides the basis for related guidance recommendations.
Find out how the myopia evidence review and the new College guidance will affect you in practice.
The College has provided the following FAQs on myopia management as a summary of the guidance and evidence review for optometrists and their patients.
Research, jointly funded by the College of Optometrists and Ulster University, has shown that myopia is more than twice as prevalent among children in the UK now than in the 1960s.
Dr Paramdeep Bilkhu MCOptom, Clinical Adviser for the College, balances innovation and evidence on modern eye care technology in visual field testing and myopia management.
In each issue, Acuity poses a topical question to a panel of members.
The public awareness campaign highlights the importance of childhood eye tests and features the findings of research conducted with Mumsnet users, the UK’s biggest network for parents.
Adrian O’Dowd explores whether the global rises in myopia and diabetes are linked and whether insulin resistance and diet can affect sight.
The College of Optometrists was invited to provide evidence at the parliamentary hearing on The Safer Phones Bill, a private member’s bill aimed at protecting children’s rights and well-being in the digital age.
Podcast: The College Clinical Advisers discuss ways to highlight the importance of regular sight tests as part of National Eye Health Week.
Becky McCall analyses the evidence that working distance increases the risk of myopia in children, and the escalation of time spent on screens is related to the surging incidence of myopia around the world.
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Clinical files: Is it possible to offer myopia management to myopic patients who attend my practice using their external prescription for dispensing?