Looking at a painting but only seeing the frame removes a person’s ability to appreciate and understand the artwork, and driving when someone can see the road and the trees on the side of it, but not the car on it, is very dangerous indeed. In both situations, the person doesn’t get the full picture…
Statistics show that between 5 to 10 percent of preschoolers, and as many as 25% at grade school, have vision problems caused by refractive errors like myopia (shortsightedness), and a host of other eye disorders. All of these can result in learning difficulties, affect social interactions, and stunt motor skills development, and they can also lead to bad…
Being told your child has an eye problem like myopia (shortsightedness) can come as a shock to both the child and the parents, and knowing it’s becoming very common is cold comfort according to Gary Rodney, a fellow of the International Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control (FIAOMC). But Rodney, the founder of Smart Vision…
Most people find it hard enough just to keep track of their everyday lives with all the pressures, demands, and to-do lists associated with it. And that’s merely keeping up to date with routines. It’s way harder for one in four of the global population, whose eyes can’t team up enough to track what they…
It is now understood that lifestyle factors may play a huge role in the health of our eyes, and particularly our children’s. And high on the list of these factors is spending too much time in front of computers, monitors, phones or tablets, according to behavioural optometrists Gary Rodney, a fellow of the International Academy…
Our eyes are not cameras. While they do gather information from the light rays that enter our eyes, eyes do not give us a picture of what we are seeing, or what it means. Instead it’s left to the brain to give us that sort of “insight” by making sense of the electrochemical signals the eyes deliver…
Australian behavioural optometrists Gary Rodney and Jacqueline Gattegno have responded with concern to statistics showing that 5 to 10 percent of preschool children, and 25 percent of their slightly older brothers and sisters at grade school, have vision problems. Yet, in spite of this, about 80 percent of the knowledge is transmitted on screens situated some distance away…
As we age, it may seem like everything in our lives dims down a bit. The family leaves home, and the clock no longer sounds its alarm at 5 or 6am for the school drop-off or day at the office. But it’s not only a change of lifestyle that’s leading to a loss of brightness…
Thousands of people around the world have recently joined the growing number of workers who over the past few decades have chosen to wave goodbye to commuting and office life. And the current buzz is that many of the businesses and countries that sent these new remote workers home during the Covid-19 lockdowns may have…
A lot has changed during the Covid-19 lockdown. And Australian Optometrist Gary Rodney (Master of Optometry) is concerned that while dealing with the aftermath, parents may overlook the impact the lockdown may have had on their children’s eyesight. Rodney, a fellow of the International Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control (FIAOMC) and founder of Smart…
Reports of babies and toddlers being given mobile phones and tablets as comforters while their parents shop at the mall have horrified Australian optometrist Gary Rodney. A fellow of the International Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control (FIAOMC), founder of Smart Vision Optometry and activist in the fight to flatten the curve of the global…
Some say that keeping your eye on the ball is all that’s required to be a good athlete. But during the last three decades both sports trainers and vision experts, like Australian behavioural optometrists Gary Rodney and Jacqueline Gattegno from Smart Vision Optometry, have become increasingly aware that while that fixed focus is definitely necessary,…
Covid-19 lockdowns are saving us from a viral infection at the cost of our children’s eyesight. Australian Smart Vision behavioural optometrists who have a special interest in myopia prevention, Gary Rodney and Jacqueline Gattegno, have voiced their concern that the stay-home regulations may prove to have closed the door on a pandemic and opened it…
As the Covid-19 virus pandemic continues to swathe paths of destruction and confusion around the world, it’s understandable that some actions related to “normal” life are overlooked. But Australian Fellow of the International Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control (FIAOMC), Gary Rodney, said some things can’t simply be set aside without consequences. And among those…
Australian optometrist Gary Rodney responded strongly to the results of Australia’s first survey on myopia treatment which showed that more than half the respondents are still only using single vision distance (full correction) glasses to treat myopia in children. And that they are not investigating newer treatments, despite indications that some, like Orthokeratology, are producing…
A study carried out to determine the validity of recent reports suggesting contact lenses could increase the chances of healthy wearers being infected with Covid-19, has found no evidence that that is true. The study instead concluded that if there is a threat of any sort it is more likely to lie in careless hygiene…
When bringing up children, parents know what to expect when it comes to potty training, helping them to crawl, and then getting up and walking. They help them with speech, and warn them what not to touch. They also expose them to different smells and tastes, all of which are easy enough to identify, discuss,…
Medical and optometry sectors have been saying that our eyes reveal the presence of a wide range of diseases in our bodies for a long time. But it is the Coronavirus that’s currently circling the globe, infecting hundreds of thousands of people, and sending the world and its economies into a panic. According to Australian…
Does Irlen Syndrome Vision Treatment Need Some Filtering? Statistics show that one out of two children and adults around the world with learning and perceptual problems are being diagnosed with Irlen Syndrome and treated accordingly. But researchers and leading behavioural optometrists like Australian expert Gary Rodney are now questioning whether these statistics paint the true…
Myopia, or nearsightedness, the visual impairment which causes people to have clear vision when viewing something close up, and see anything further away as a blur, has been affecting more and more people over the past few decades, and there’s no indication this pattern is likely to change. While some optometrists suggest it is reaching…
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