Finding Focus with a Myopia Management Strategy
Provider: Mivision
Contact: Nikki Byrne, [E] nikki@mivision.com.au, [P] 02 8336 8616
Activity Outline
Myopia is associated with socio-economic consequences, visual impairment, and secondary diseases in adulthood. Therefore, and because of its increasing prevalence worldwide, a strategy is needed to minimise the impact of myopia.
On this basis, for several years the optical and ophthalmic industry has been putting a lot of effort into providing tools to control and manage myopia progression during its different stages: onset, progression, and stabilisation.
Myopia control management represents a paradigm shift in treatment for myopia, from correcting a refractive error to managing its various stages with a well-defined focus and strategy.
As Nicola Peaper writes, the aim of myopia management is to detect the development of myopia as early as possible, and to act as soon as possible. In this regard, every dioptre counts.
Learning Objectives
- Realise that peripheral refraction and eye length varies in different parts of the retina,
- Realise that differences of asymmetries in the peripheral refraction and the eye shape can be demonstrated for progressive and non-progressive myopes, and
- Understand how a spherical single vision lens can, in certain children, cause axial elongation.
Max CPD hours awarded: 1.25
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| Finding Focus with a Myopia Management Strategy |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 0.75 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1.25 |