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

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.

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

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

A message from the President of the College of Optometrists.