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.

More on myopia

Podcast: Dr Paramdeep Bilkhu MCOptom and Daniel Hardiman-McCartney FCOptom MBE discuss the latest updates on myopia management guidance.

Professor Jez Guggenheim MCOptom, one of the UK’s leading myopia researchers, explains why recent breakthroughs could herald a new age of treatments.

We have reviewed the evidence available and produced new guidance to support the growing number of optometrists offering myopia management interventions.

The College has provided the following FAQs on myopia management as a summary of the guidance and evidence review for optometrists and their patients.

Find out how the myopia evidence review and the new College guidance will affect you in practice.

This report provides a review of the evidence available for myopia management interventions. It identifies gaps and provides the basis for related guidance recommendations.

Here we summarise three research papers from a recent issue of Optometry in Practice.

A framework for delivering eye care to children in special schools aims to help those who often seek treatment the least, writes Anna Scott.

Adrian O’Dowd asks if the growing use of topography in community optometry will lead to wavefront analysis gaining traction as a complementary tool.

This article reviews the evidence for the protective effect of daylight on myopia.

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