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.
The College’s Guidance for Professional Practice section on assessing and managing children with myopia.
Clinical files: A patient has lost their only pair of glasses. Can I make up a new pair of glasses if the prescription is expired?
The College Clinical Advisers discuss the recent news from the MHRA approving the first atropine treatment for myopia in the UK.
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.
One thing is certain: I wasn’t expecting the events of the last 10 weeks to take place when I wrote my last Optometry in Practice editorial in February this year.
Here we summarise three research papers from a recent issue of Optometry in Practice.
A message from the President of the College of Optometrists.
Amrizal et al. discuss the accommodative functions in myopes and how these are influenced by the myopia management options such as contact lenses and atropine.
This paper critically reviews scientific studies investigating the efficacy of atropine at regressing myopia progression in children.
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
The clinical figures that count.
What's happening in the world of technology.