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The Managing Myopia Guidelines Infographic and setting up your systems
This short lecture was a part of the Myopia Action Month Online Seminar Series, screened in September 2023. With a theme of 'Setting up your systems,' Dr Kate Gifford of Myopia Profile explores global survey results on prescribing and described four steps to take in setting up your myopia management practice. She then explains the newly updated Managing Myopia Guidelines Infographics, in two parts:
1. The multi-coloured four parent-facing panels which guide the eye care practitioner through clinical communication with parents and patients on visual environment, prescribing choices and efficacy, kids and contact lenses, and why myopia management is essential.
2. The mostly blue coloured panels panels which provide a chairside reference for eye care practitioners on risk factors, prescribing guidelines, follow-up schedules and gauging success in long-term myopia management.
Download the Managing Myopia Guidelines Infographics for free, in several languages, from MyopiaProfile.com:
portal.myopiaprofile.com/clinicalresources/category/mp-resources/Details/managing-myopia-guidelines-infographic
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Myopia Action Month 2023 Online Seminar Series
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Welcome to Myopia Action Month 2023, the world-first event underway throughout September! Learn about what's happening across the month here. Myopia Action Month aims to turn myopia awareness into action, empowering eye care practitioners in their day-to-day practice with online education, on-hand resources, courses and more. The Online Seminar Series provides fresh content each week to learn t...
Myopia Management with Spectacles online course overview
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Myopia Profile is excited to bring you our brand new, world-first Myopia Management with Spectacles online course. To celebrate the launch we are offer 50% discount for enrolment up to February 20, 2023 using coupon code: MMS50 This world-first, two-hour online course features interactive text and image content to provide an engaging and comprehensive learning experience. The course covers all ...
Contact Lenses for Kids - online course
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We are thrilled to launch our world-first Contact Lenses for Kids online course. This course is composed of six video lesson modules, each 30 minutes long, for a total duration of three hours. Each module also includes a full reference list and key scientific paper for you to download to extend your learning. Learn more about the course in this video. The key inspiration for us in building this...
Myopia Musings August 2020
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This month’s musings are brought to you from Outback Queensland, Australia. In August our key content releases were in our new Science section, along with exploration of axial length measurement in myopia management across our Clinical and Case Studies sections of MyopiaProfile.com. This musing also features a sheepdog puppy or two, the world’s only dinosaur stampede footprints (almost 100 mill...
Myopia Musings July 2020
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In July 2020 we had two major new content themes on our website MyopiaProfile.com and in our Facebook group. These were: 1. A comprehensive clinical reference on when and how to prescribe spectacles for myopia management - from single vision to standard and novel designs and more. Check out our CLINICAL tab to find this. I really think this is important reading for all of us as spectacles are a...
Myopia Musings June 2020
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In case you missed it - a review of our newest learning experiences and clinical practice tools on MyopiaProfile.com added in the month of June. In this video I discuss two key topics which were the focus in June - young adult myopia management, including when to stop treatments; and all about atropine, from when to start to compounding to how to taper and managing side effects. This month we a...
Our new 'Managing Myopia Guidelines' resources to help clinical communication
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Our brand new 'Managing Myopia Guidelines' suite of resources has been distributed recently at the Global Specialty Lens Symposium in Las Vegas (January 2020) and the American Academy of Optometry meeting in Orlando (October 2019) , with big thanks to our partners. It's now available for free download from MyopiaProfile.com! This video explains how the suite of resources fill in the all-importa...
How to do an easy binocular balance
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This video is aimed at students, or new graduates, or any optometrist or optician who is interested in various ways to spin the dials! As you may or may not know about me, I like to make things simple. So I also want to make things simple for my patients by giving them a difference to see. This is the basis of the following technique for Binocular Balance at the end of subjective refraction, as...
Binocular Vision Fundamentals - assessing accommodative facility
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This video demonstrates how to measure accommodative facility at near using plus / minus lens flippers. Thanks to our 'eyeball model' Emily for being adorable and helpful for another clinical video! For more like this, including full step-by-step instruction to help you emerge from BV-puzzled into BV-pro, check out our new professional online course Binocular Vision Fundamentals, on www.myopiap...
How to make astigmatic refractions simpler
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When using a refractor head / phoropter for subjective refractions, here are some tips to simplify the old '1 or 2' by giving your patient differences to see, in both determining cyl power and axis. This video is aimed at students, new graduates or any experienced optometrist looking for another way to spin those dials!
Binocular Vision Fundamentals - assessing vergence
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This video demonstrates how to measure near horizontal fusional reserves with a prism bar, and near heterophoria with cover test. Our 'eyeball model' Emily also gives us an adorable outtake at the end! For more like this, including full step-by-step instruction to help you emerge from BV-puzzled into BV-pro, check out our new professional online course Binocular Vision Fundamentals, on www.myop...
How to Measure Accommodative Lag
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In this video, Dr Kate Gifford PhD - Optometrist and co-founder of Myopia Profile - demonstrates how to quickly and easily measure accommodative lag with the near retinoscopy technique. A description of the process, along with further advice on prescribing adds for accommodative lag, can be found at myopiaprofile.com/how-to.
Myopia Musings #6 - Outdoor Time
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In beautiful scenery south of Dublin, Ireland, here are 5 clinical FAQ's to help with talking to parents about outdoor time for their myopic or at-risk pre-myopic children. By Kate Gifford, Optometrist from Brisbane, Australia. www.myopiaprofile.com www.mykidsvision.org www.kategifford.com.au www.gjo.com.au
The Myopia Control Song
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Optometrist and Comedienne Sarah Morgan performs the worldwide debut of her newest tune at the International Myopia Conference, Birmingham, in September 2017. One of the best nerdy things to ever happen in my life - howlingly hilarious!! Video posted by Kate Gifford, Optometrist from Brisbane, Australia. www.myopiaprofile.com www.mykidsvision.org www.kategifford.com.au www.gjo.com.au
All about contact lenses in an hour - student lecture
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All about contact lenses in an hour - student lecture
Myopia Musings #4 - Misight 1Day 3 year study results
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Myopia Musings #4 - Misight 1Day 3 year study results
Binocular vision - easier than you think (lecture)
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Binocular vision - easier than you think (lecture)
Clinical Myopia Management (lecture)
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Clinical Myopia Management (lecture)
Myopia Musings #5 - ignorance is exciting (plus an eclipse!)
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Myopia Musings #5 - ignorance is exciting (plus an eclipse!)
Myopia Musings #3 - the ideal spectacle lens
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Myopia Musings #3 - the ideal spectacle lens
Myopia Musings #2 - Asian lids and OrthoK
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Myopia Musings #2 - Asian lids and OrthoK
A chat with Dr Tom Aller
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A chat with Dr Tom Aller
Myopia Musings #1 - Atropine
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Myopia Musings #1 - Atropine

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 Місяць тому

    I do prefer to make my own refractive STATE Measurements. Far more accurate, since I can check objectively, on a weekly basis. Accurate to 0.25 Diopters.

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 Місяць тому

    Great job.

  • @adams4558
    @adams4558 2 місяці тому

    It was nice for Michael Myers to do your filming.

  • @mansoorvafi3750
    @mansoorvafi3750 2 місяці тому

    Thank you so much for your great videos

  • @rihabbezza18
    @rihabbezza18 3 місяці тому

    Flippers are just used for accommodation?

  • @preetikumar3719
    @preetikumar3719 6 місяців тому

    Thanks 😊

  • @mafia1270
    @mafia1270 7 місяців тому

    Can i use the duchrome instead in balancing.?thanks

  • @pigu8734
    @pigu8734 9 місяців тому

    I find that my lag is worse in my SV contacts, myopia control MFCLs and glasses. My lag is the lowest with the testing flippers. Could it be due to the high +ve spherical aberration properties of the flipper lens creating a higher accommodative stimulus? I am of East Asian decent and very insensitive to blur. My habitual wear is lackluster during schoolwork but my optometrist keeps telling my mom my eyes are fine

  • @user-jx3tn8ee1c
    @user-jx3tn8ee1c 9 місяців тому

    Thanks a lot Kate for these wonderful skill learned, is very commendable. I am soon to start using a phoropter for my refraction 😅 so I need more complete refraction including spherical astigmatism power

  • @phunghuyhoaofficial
    @phunghuyhoaofficial 10 місяців тому

    Really informative videos ! Thanks for sharing How to make astigmatic refractions simpler!

  • @nimalidangampala159
    @nimalidangampala159 11 місяців тому

    Hi can you explain how much should be the normal lag and lead

  • @sidoptom
    @sidoptom Рік тому

    Very good video

  • @Simone_jw
    @Simone_jw Рік тому

    Thank you. I am a Korean with exophoria. I think it's a useful practice method. The astigmatism is -3.50 diopter. I heard that lack of control due to astigmatism leads to lack of convergence, so I'm doing control training. This is because we expect it to help with convergence, so do you have an opinion on this?

    • @toto__1926
      @toto__1926 10 місяців тому

      안녕하세요, 여기서 한국인 댓글을 보니 반갑네요. 저도 외사위 폭주 관련 훈련을 1년반이상 하기도 했고 현재는 조절용이성 관련 시기능훈련을 필요로 하는 상황인데 이 댓글에 답장 좀 구할수 있을까요 ? blog.naver.com/sundayrain2/223181889293 해당 블로그가 제 대략적인 상태입니다. 유사한 어려움을 겪는 분들을 찾기가 워낙 어려워서요 ㅎㅎ

  • @AmaniAlAmad
    @AmaniAlAmad Рік тому

    Hello lam so intrested for this course but actually myopic control spectacle lenses are not available in my country so I would like to know these lenses link or even companies contact

  • @karolinaopaczynska7562
    @karolinaopaczynska7562 Рік тому

    Very useful thing to have. Shaving everything,

  • @UbuntuOphthalm
    @UbuntuOphthalm Рік тому

    From where can i get these flippers that you had used in the clinic? please, share the link

    • @UbuntuOphthalm
      @UbuntuOphthalm Рік тому

      Any help, please

    • @MyopiaProfile
      @MyopiaProfile Рік тому

      @@UbuntuOphthalm we're in Australia and got them from a local company (Cyclopean Designs) but we've seen them online for sale via eBay and AliExpress - search 'optical flipper'.

  • @alex595659
    @alex595659 Рік тому

    Does we can see the difference in vision with normal lens contact ?

  • @user-zk8ck3my3l
    @user-zk8ck3my3l Рік тому

    Can therapy work without prism for VH and BVD? Asking as patient… also, how do you determine if eye strain and weakness in one eye is BVD related vs something like MG?

  • @jfilm7466
    @jfilm7466 Рік тому

    Great info, but those sleeves are off-putting 😂

  • @abeibrahim5846
    @abeibrahim5846 Рік тому

    Hi, Great tutorial - I am in need of glasses, but I can't find a doctor that has a variable measuring practice (i.e. Binocular focus system) that one can adjust to the desired distance than the doctor would measure its value. Multi-lens measuring systems confuse my brain and one fears selecting one of the last two choices and ending up with glasses that degrade one's vision rather than help it - why on earth technology has not reached this, and we still using 100 years old system.... I can't understand it for the life in me.

    • @MyopiaProfile
      @MyopiaProfile Рік тому

      Hi Abe, us eye doctors do need to measure your prescription for far and for close, at set distances. This provides standardised information for past and future comparison. We then use this information, along with knowledge about your visual environment and activities, to determine the best prescription and best type of spectacle lenses for you. If you're struggling to make the 'forced choice' options of what we call subjective refraction ('subjective' as we're asking for your feedback), ask if your eye doctor can make an objective measure of your refraction instead. There are a couple of techniques (retinoscopy and autorefraction) which are objective, taking the guesswork away. We use these techniques as a starting place and it might be the finishing place for those who can't tell us otherwise, but for most adults we will also want to ask your opinion about what looks clearer to you.

  • @MrBradmoss
    @MrBradmoss Рік тому

    Sorry for this silly question, I've found the model of multifocals I use get dry in the eye and the only way of rehydrate them is getting them out of the eye and use the same solution I use at night. Artificial tears don't work, I have to take them out of my eyes. The model I use is B&L Soflens. I'd appreciate your opinion on this. Thank you!

  • @evieT92
    @evieT92 Рік тому

    Thank you!

  • @DoubleOpposite
    @DoubleOpposite 2 роки тому

    You do know myopia is preventable with the use of plus for near for low myopes right? Plus lenses have the same effect as atropine. Well shown by science, want me to post it here?

  • @DoubleOpposite
    @DoubleOpposite 2 роки тому

    Myopia is reversible with the use of plus lenses for near / lowered minus for near for higher myopes. This is pure science - those who wish to ignore it >> keep wearing your full minus and get your eyes messed up :)

  • @ugowoundo
    @ugowoundo 2 роки тому

    Does a high lag mean you reduce the myopic prescription and by how much?

    • @MyopiaProfile
      @MyopiaProfile Рік тому

      Not necessarily. A high lag means that the person is working harder at near with their distance prescription. Reducing the distance prescription will cause blurred vision, if the prescription has been measured accurately. So, usually a high lag necessitates spectacles which provide a reading add such as progressive addition lenses.

    • @ugowoundo
      @ugowoundo Рік тому

      @@MyopiaProfile Thank you so much

  • @AL-ru3nk
    @AL-ru3nk 2 роки тому

    I need help I think I have binocular vision dysfunction and dont know where to go for help. Im on central coast nsw. Please help

  • @sayfullahali3951
    @sayfullahali3951 2 роки тому

    Great Video.

  • @EazyDuz18
    @EazyDuz18 2 роки тому

    Darth Vader breathing in the background

  • @GA-op7we
    @GA-op7we 2 роки тому

    Why do I get -0.75 in my right and -1.50 in my left when I do the monocular part but get -0.75 and -1.00 after prism dissociation test?

  • @GA-op7we
    @GA-op7we 2 роки тому

    If you found a -0.75 in the right eye and -1.50 in the left would you still perform bin balance or is there too much a diff bw the two eyes to do it?

    • @MyopiaProfile
      @MyopiaProfile 2 роки тому

      With equal VA in both eyes, regardless of the anisometropia, you can / should do a binocular balance.

    • @GA-op7we
      @GA-op7we 2 роки тому

      @@MyopiaProfile when I do the monocular part I get -0.75 in right and -1.50 in the left and then -0.75 in right, -1.00 in left after prism dissociation test. Why is that?

  • @zerozebra
    @zerozebra 2 роки тому

    ua-cam.com/video/HWa4rT90vBE/v-deo.html

  • @davidjyothiopticals7699
    @davidjyothiopticals7699 2 роки тому

    TQ madam

  • @davidjyothiopticals7699
    @davidjyothiopticals7699 2 роки тому

    TQ madam

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 2 роки тому

    Tragic, now, to understand what happened to captain Tom, eyes, after he started wearing a strong minus lens you prescribed for him. Yes, his exial length, is long from that minus lens. Now he is blind in space

  • @jobejames4622
    @jobejames4622 2 роки тому

    very helpful

  • @thomasbuxton2648
    @thomasbuxton2648 2 роки тому

    Hi Kate. I had a 9 year old young boy today who came for an eye test, he had a small alternating xot at near and large XOP with rapid recovery in the distance. His unaided visions were 6/6 each eye. Retinoscopy showed +0.50DS. His father told me that he had recently had strabismus surgery to correct the xot last year, and after the surgery, they had prescribed him -2.50DS apparently to control the strabismus. I checked the prescription from the hospital and they had indeed given him -2.50 lenses, but he has stopped wearing them since last year, and his father wnTed to know if he should continue wearing them. I placed a -2.50 into the trial frame and redid the cover test, the lenses were hardly making any difference. Should this child continue wearing -2.50? I don’t see the point considering his visions are 6/6, he’s past the age where amblyopia could develop, and the lensss aren’t really doing anything to control the near strab

    • @MyopiaProfile
      @MyopiaProfile 2 роки тому

      Hi Thomas, if the lenses don't seem to help with his cover test then they may not be needed any longer. An overminus of -2.50DS is a common management for intermittent XOT - here's a paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33662112/ I would want to test and retest the cover test and fusional reserves several times during the exam to check for fatigue. If he fatigues a lot, perhaps he still needs some support at distance. I'd be concerned about a 9 year old child reading through an extra -2.50 at near, though. If it's not needed for fusion it could place excessive demand on accommodation at near. Kind regards, Kate.

    • @thomasbuxton2648
      @thomasbuxton2648 2 роки тому

      @@MyopiaProfile hi Kate. Thank you so much for your advice. I am intending to purchase your binocular vision course online, I wanted to ask whether the course, or anything else, would allow us to communicate directly with you for support on complex cases..? I am particularly interested In becoming more confident on prescribing guidelines for children, I am in the UK and we usually use Susan Leats 2011 paper as a basis, but I find it confusing tbh.

    • @MyopiaProfile
      @MyopiaProfile 2 роки тому

      @@thomasbuxton2648 of course, you can email support@myopiaprofile.com or message me directly through Facebook or LinkedIn. You will find Susan Leat's 2011 paper translated into prescribing tables in our course Mastering Refraction for Kids!

    • @thomasbuxton2648
      @thomasbuxton2648 2 роки тому

      @@MyopiaProfile many thanks! I’ve purchased your BV course, very excited to start it! Regarding your mastering refraction course, one of the things that I find particularly difficult re Susan leats paper is that there are no examples.. (of Course there wouldn’t, it’s a research paper :-)) does your course walk you through examples of how to prescribe for hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism, anisometropia, etc according to age norms as outlined in her paper? :/)

  • @shruthiorange5792
    @shruthiorange5792 2 роки тому

    Amazing lecture Kate, someday in my life wanna meet you.....love from INDIA

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 2 роки тому

    Funny, You always talk about "management", you NEVER talk about prevention, or recovery from 20/50, to 20/20.

  • @thomasbuxton2648
    @thomasbuxton2648 2 роки тому

    Hi Kate. Would you say there’s any point in doing a plus one test on refraction being done under cyclo?

    • @kategifford9691
      @kategifford9691 2 роки тому

      Hi Thomas, I wouldn't think so, as the plus one test is to attempt to control / manage accommodation and this is the point of a cycloplegic.

  • @vikasaili24
    @vikasaili24 3 роки тому

    Worst explain... Stop ur useless videos... Ur language is worst

  • @Cliche8701
    @Cliche8701 3 роки тому

    Exceptional video

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 3 роки тому

    Thank you Kate, Of course it is equally accurate to measure SPHERICAL. There is no legal requirement that cylinder be measured. I just use my own Test Lens Set. A personal choice. I prefer Spherical Equivalent. I confirm my Snellen at 20/20.

  • @jackiesok2755
    @jackiesok2755 3 роки тому

    Can you you make a video of complete eye test you would do in your office. Thanks

  • @jackiesok2755
    @jackiesok2755 3 роки тому

    Can you do a complete video fitting contact lens for kids please

    • @MyopiaProfile
      @MyopiaProfile Рік тому

      Hi Jackie, we have How-To video guides on our MyKidsVision.org website which include applying and removing contact lenses, both for the individual and for a parent applying and removing them. Check out this link: www.mykidsvision.org/VideoGuides

  • @madelantsao7271
    @madelantsao7271 3 роки тому

    Really informative videos especially for optometry students! Would love more instructional videos like these!

  • @Emily-dn3cs
    @Emily-dn3cs 3 роки тому

    Is accommodative lag and myopia progression a risk for children only or adults too?

    • @MyopiaProfile
      @MyopiaProfile 2 роки тому

      It appears to be a risk for adults as well, but we don't have a lot of data on it. Here's a summary with links to scientific papers: www.myopiaprofile.com/measuring-near-lag-of-accommodation/

  • @ThePimp4dawin
    @ThePimp4dawin 3 роки тому

    Great stuff!

  • @thomasbuxton2648
    @thomasbuxton2648 3 роки тому

    What if your axis is completely off to to begin with?

    • @deyesc6358
      @deyesc6358 3 роки тому

      I start with axis check: roughly bracket the axis if you're finding the patient is unsure, then do power check then move back to axis to confirm.

    • @MyopiaProfile
      @MyopiaProfile 2 роки тому

      My answer - use your retinoscope to check the cyl axis beforehand, if you don't have one available from retinoscopy, autorefraction or a prior pair of glasses. If the astigmatism is very high, I would start with checking axis first, not cyl power. Hence, this comment from D eyesc is helpful. This video mentions, at the start, that the technique to 'search for cyl' is to help with small astigmatic powers. I always do retinoscopy first - if I decide to check my result with subjective refraction, I'll already be close to the cyl axis.

  • @dantrbI
    @dantrbI 3 роки тому

    This was probably the clearest explanation of BV I’ve ever heard. Would definitely recommend to fellow classmates!

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 3 роки тому

    Poor child, put into a -2 Diopter minus lens, when he has 20/40, and could get back to 20/20.