Family Vision Care Center - Why Live Life at Arm's Length?

Do you have trouble...
.reading the menu in a restaurant?
.reading the fine print in a phone book?
.threading a needle?
If you said "yes" to any of these questions, you may have presbyopia, a common visual condition. A common sign of presbyopia is to move reading material to arm's length to bring the print into better focus.

Presbyopia is a natural and unavoidable change in which the eye loses its ability to focus on near objects. It can cause blurred near vision, eye fatigue and headaches. Presbyopia.

begins at thirtysomething

affects a majority of people in their 40's; and
affects everyone by age 55

Seventy-six million baby boomers have either begun to experience presbyopia or soon will. Although not sight-threatening, presbyopia is a progressive condition which can only be properly treated by an eyecare professional.

Today's vision care advances offer consumers a wide variety of attractive, comfortable and affordable lens, frame and contact lens options to correct prebyopia. A myriad of new technologies, materials and treatments can help you look good and see well.

Progressive lenses("no-line" bifocals) offer a continuous, gradual change in prescription strength assisting in vision correction for distance, intermediate and near work.
Bifocal lenses for sharp optics at both distance and near range.
Reading glasses only, for patients who do not require glasses to see in the distance.
Contact lenses are now available in affordable disposable bifocal and progressive designs.
Monovision contact lenses-a contact lens for near in one eye and a contact lens for distance in the other eye often works well for early presbyopes.

Your eyecare professional can advise you of many special lenses and lens options that are currently available to give greater comfort to presbyopes with particular occupations or hobbies:

Computer users
Golfers
Musicians
Mechanics
Artists
Crafters
And many others.

So why wait? Why live life at arm's length when a comprehensive vision exam will result in accurate prescription information to treat presbyopia and treatment options have never been so numerous? Call your eyecare professional today and start seeing better tomorrow!

Susan Halstead is a NYS and Nationally Licensed Optician and owner of Family Vision Care Center at 205 Lake Avenue in Saratoga Springs. Susan may be reached for comment or questions at 584-6111 or familyvisioncare@spa.net.