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.
The College’s Guidance for Professional Practice section on assessing and managing children with myopia.
Clinical files: What impact should a patient's home genetics test have on my clinical decision-making?
Podcast: The College Clinical Advisers discuss ways to highlight the importance of regular sight tests as part of National Eye Health Week.
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.
The clinical figures that count.
Our Director of Research, Michael Bowen, looks at how the Cochrane review will affect our guidance on myopia management.
We asked five industry experts to round up the optical successes of 2018, and what they predict for the year ahead.
Clinical files: I am keen to start offering my patients a myopia management intervention using atropine. Can I prescribe 0.01% atropine?
Podcast: We talk to Dr Nicola Logan MCOptom about myopia management for our first ever WebinarXtra - where we answer questions there wasn't time to cover during our live webinar.
This article reviews the evidence to support the optometric management of childhood myopia.
Podcast: We talk to Dr Susie Jones MCOptom, about her top tips for optometrists thinking about offering myopia management, advice on managing patients’ expectations, and much more.
With half the world's population estimated to be myopic by 2050, Olivier Denève, our Head of Policy and Public Affairs, asks how we can explain the risks and benefits to patients.
Podcast: We talk to Professor Jeremy Guggenheim MCOptom about genetic, or genomic testing, and whether we could use the same method to predict myopia.
Podcast: Martin talks to Professor Chris Hammond and Professor Kathryn Saunders FCOptom about all things myopia. They discuss current evidence and how patients can be guided through their treatment options.
With the global prevalence of myopia predicted to reach 50% and rates in the UK rising, should optometrists be embracing myopia management techniques? Madeleine Bailey reports.
The College of Optometrists welcomed over 800 attendees to Birmingham last weekend (24-25 February) for its annual conference and AGM.