Myopia

Essential reading

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.

Guidance for Professional Practice

The College’s Guidance for Professional Practice section on assessing and managing children with myopia.

Clinical files

Clinical files: What impact should a patient's home genetics test have on my clinical decision-making?

Latest podcast

Podcast: The College Clinical Advisers discuss ways to highlight the importance of regular sight tests as part of National Eye Health Week.

Research

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.

More on myopia

This article explains the current understanding of the risk factors, diagnosis, limitations and management of glaucoma in myopes.

Dr Hema Radhakrishnan, Associate Dean for Social Responsibility and Reader in Optometry at the University of Manchester, is the guest editor of this special edition of Optometry in Practice.

This article covers prescribing, fitting and dispensing myopia management soft contact lenses in children

A message from the President of the College of Optometrists.

The clinical figures that count.

What's happening in the world of technology.

Objective autorefractors are already a reliable and time-saving complement to optometric care, but Acuity asks if fully automated subjective machines threaten the profession itself.

Create a welcoming environment to ensure excellent customer service for young and old, says Emma White.