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More Effective Treatment Identified for Common Childhood Vision Disorder

Dr. Mitchell Scheiman Leads Study Funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The results of a research study funded by the National

Eye Institute (NEI) were published in the October 13th, 2008 edition of Archives of Opthalmology.  The

National Eye Institute is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.  Our own Dr. Mitchell Scheiman served as

the principal investigator of this study. 

The study focused on children dealing with Convergence Insufficiency (CI), a common childhood eye muscle coordination problem.  Research shows that as many as one of every 20 children suffer from

CI.  This condition cannot be detected through school screenings or wellness visits at the pediatrician's

office.  It can only be diagnosed through a comprehensive eye exam.  Convergence Insufficiency often leads to difficulty in school and learning disorders. 

The results of the study showed that nearly 75 percent of children who were given office-based therapy, along with at-home reinforcement, achieved normal vision or had significantly fewer symptoms after 12 weeks of treatment.  This is an excellent result, and reinforces the importance of vision therapy, and eye examinations in general, for all school-aged children. 

Some local publications have written articles on the results of this study led by Dr. Scheiman.  To read more, please click here.

Clompus, Reto & Halscheid Vision Associates voted 'Best Eye Care Practice in Chester County 2008' by readers of the Daily Local News

Our practice is honored to be recognized as the 'Best Eye Care Practice in Chester County' for the second year in a row.  We take pride in providing the very best care to our patients, and we try to be attentive to the feedback of our patients.  Being recognized in the Daily Local is very special - it represents the hard work of everyone in our office. 

See Your World in Hi-Definition!

Did you know your eyes are like fingerprints? No two are alike—not even your own two eyes. And yet with conventional vision correction, thousands of people may share your same iPrint. Based on measurement technology used a generation ago, it’s this ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that can limit you from seeing beyond the ordinary. But now with the iZon® eye exam, Drs. Reto and Halscheid are able to capture your unique ocular fingerprint, or iPrint™, delivering a diagnosis with data never before available.  For the first time your prescription is a match to your unique optical requirements. Taking what is unique to your eyes and customizing your prescription, no one in the world will have your same iPrint.

Here’s what makes everybody’s eyes different: your eyes have tiny microscopic irregularities, or aberrations, that oftentimes distort light as it passes through the cornea and lens and onto the retina.  This can have a significant impact on the quality of your vision affecting things like depth perception, crispness, contrast, color perception and even nighttime vision. Until now there was nothing your eye doctor could do to identify or address these imperfections unique to your eyes.

With the information and data from your eye exam and your very own iPrint, your customized iZon High Resolution Lenses are produced.  And because these lenses take into consideration both traditional measurements and the unique aberrations of your eyes, your vision, for the first time, will be truly optimized.

We are very pleased to now offer iZon Wavefront Lenses in our practice.  Click here to view the benefits of iZon Wavefront Lenses.