We truly believe in annual eye examinations to maintain the highest level of vision and ocular health. Just because you are seeing 20/20 does not mean your eyes are perfect. Some forms of ocular disease are completely without symptoms but can cause serious consequences down the road if not caught. Children that see well can still have underlying binocular vision issues that can affect learning and often go undetected if not screened properly for them.
To ensure good eye health and vision, we are very proud to offer the following services:
Comprehensive Eye Exams
Annual Examinations are critical in attaining and maintaining optimal eye health and vison. Our doctors take pride in the thoroughness of their examinations. We want to make sure you are not only seeing your best by performing a careful refraction but also that your vision is at its best. This means testing to ensure your eyes are functioning properly together as a team and are free of any and all diseases that could be causing you issues now as well as down the road. Because of the visibility of the vasculature in the eye, systemic disease such as diabetes and hypertension can also be detected during annual examinations.
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Pediatric Eye Exams
Here at Chagrin Valley Optometrists, we are proud to offer pediatric eye examinations. Children should have their first eye exam around the age of six months. If the first exam finds that their eyes are healthy, they won’t need another appointment until they are between the age of two and three.
Although many schools offer annual eye exams, they are not complete visual exams and the results can be inaccurate. For this reason, you should schedule yearly examinations to ensure that your child’s eyes are healthy and that he or she can see clearly.
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Contact Lenses Exans
Nowadays, most people prefer to wear contacts instead of glasses. If you are interested in contact lenses, please let your eye doctor know prior to your appointment. During your exam, we will discuss the various contact lenses available and determine the best option based on your individual needs and lifestyle.
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Digital Retina Imaging
Using a digital camera system, our optometrists at Chagrin Valley Optometrists can clearly see and examine your retina, located at the back of your eye. This examination is critical to monitoring the health of your eye as well as to the early detection of many medical problems. The pictures generated through retinal imaging help us identify problems with your vision and can also help diagnose other medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, or even brain tumors.
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Emergency Care
Here at Chagrin Valley Optometrists, we are here for you in the case of an emergency. There are times when you may need immediate care for your eyes. Any time that you experience trauma to your eyes, you need to be seen. If you get anything in your eye, especially chemicals and foreign objects, you should be seen immediately to limit the potential damage to the eye.
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Diabetic Eye Care
Diabetes can affect more than just your blood sugar. If not managed correctly, it can also do damage to your eyes, cause vision loss or even blindness. Trouble with everyday tasks can occur even if you have regular glasses or contacts. Yearly monitoring is important to maintain eye health.
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Glaucoma
Glaucoma occurs from damage to the eye’s optic nerve and can often lead to loss of vision and blindness. To detect glaucoma, our highly trained doctors will perform a proper screening to determine severity, examine the damage, and help you manage your glaucoma.
Early detection of glaucoma is crucial in preventing vision loss and blindness; the earlier the better. However, there is no official cure for glaucoma. There are several treatment methods that manage, slow down, or halt the process. Treatment for glaucoma will vary depending on the stage and severity for each individual patient.
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Macular Degeneration
Macular degeneration is a deterioration of the central portion of the retina, the inside layer of the eye that records the images we see and sends them through the optic nerve from the eye to the brain for processing. The macula, or the center of the retina, is responsible for focusing central vision in the eye and controls our ability to see and process information.
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Dry Eye Disease
Chagrin Valley Optometrists is proud to offer dry eye treatment for our patients. Ocular Surface Disease, also known as dry eye, can occur from certain medications, naturally by aging, or as a symptom arising from systemic diseases such as Sjogren’s syndrome, Rheumatoid arthritis, or Lupus. If you have a minor case of dry eye, you may be experiencing irritation, excessive tearing, fluctuating vision, and/or a burning sensation in your eyes. Excessive dry eyes, or dry eye symptoms that go untreated, have the potential to damage eye tissue, scar your corneas, and impair your vision.
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Myopia Control
Nearsightedness, known as myopia, makes it difficult to see objects from afar. However, in more recent years, myopia has been reclassified by the World Health Organization as a disease. This was due to the dangers of retinal and overall eye health that myopia poses, as well as the escalating presence found in children worldwide. We now have options available to slow down the progression of your child’s myopia rather than giving them stronger glasses or contacts year after year. Treatments including orthokeratology or overnight contact lens wear, MiSight soft contact lens wear, as well as low dose atropine eye drops work to preserve your child’s sight setting them up for a bright future.
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Vision Therapy
Vision rehabilitation is a service that can restore function after vision loss. It is just like physical therapy but for your eyes. Vision rehabilitation will allow people who have recently lost their vision or have low vision to continue to live normally and maintain their regular daily routine.
There may be many different parts of a vision rehabilitation session. Some of these include assessing and evaluating your needs and what your routine was like prior to your vision loss. Some others include teaching adaptive independent living skills, utilizing community support services, facilitating psychosocial adjustment to vision loss, and record keeping.
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Sports Vision
Sports Vision training involves high-level eye tracking, depth perception, and hand-eye coordination. Many athletes will practice these exercises to keep their eye health in peak condition.
There are various exercises and specific exams used for Sports Vision testing. Office and field tests can both help determine how your eyes will function beyond the realm of normal activity. We can customize a program to strengthen your vision based on your level of activity.
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Full Service Optical
Chagrin Valley Optometrists is proud to offer a wide variety of independent frame lines to choose from! Glasses, more than ever, say a lot about your personality and style. Selecting the right frames can be a little daunting, especially for first time patients. Our opticians have a great deal of experience helping patients find the best glasses for them – taking into account budget, medical needs, lifestyle, and appearance. We always stay up to date on the newest lens technology so patients can have access to the best optics available. Our opticians will walk you through the different options to choose from to make the process of creating your glasses as painless as possible!
We put a priority on having as much control over the quality of our patients’ glasses as possible, and so we built an in-house finishing lab to have a bigger hand in the final product. Besides the custom lenses we edge, we also have single vision lenses available to take home the same or next day from your visit.