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GOT VISION?
 Do you realize that your eyes can appreciate or distinguish over 23,000 different colors? Add differences in lighting, hue and intensity and you have a wonderful palate with which to experience the world. We thought we’d stray slightly from our clinical and technical series to talk about vision. Vision of course is so much more than your score on an eye chart (your visual acuity). Vision processes colors and movement and therefore your experience as a person.
As vision care experts, optometry doctors really are the only physicians trained to understand the interplay of all facets of vision on the quality of our lives. The development of vision, learning at school and our performance in the globally competitive world are all limited by how we see, handle, and process visual information.
As the environment changes around us, the demands on our vision change as well. Consider the demands of working on the computer, the dry air from internal heating and the tremendous amount of information we must process each day. The Earth is changing too. Global warming brings rising tides and as the ozone layer dwindles, sending more harmful UV radiation to the earth, our risk for cataracts and macular degeneration increases. Cataracts and macular degeneration can alter our vision and color perception, as can medicines for arthritis, heart disease, and vascular disease.
Developing a relationship with a primary eye doctor that understands the important role of vision in your life, not just to see the eye chart or for the convenience of contacts and the fashion of eyewear, but for so much more – to maximize and protect vision throughout your life.
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