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.
What ocular complications does Ehlers-Danlos cause and how should optometrists treat patients with this condition? Léa Surugue reports.
Key statistics from the WHO World report on vision 2019.
The clinical figures that count.
Key statistics on optometry around the world.
A glance at what’s happening in the world of technology.
Summaries of recent papers from Optometry in Practice.
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.