Ortho k wearer blog

Here is a link to a blog of someone who has just had Orthok lenses fitted who is very positive. "I've been driving to work all week without my glasses, something that feels deeply wrong and I still go to take them off every time I stop the car. Reading signs in shops, and being able to make out people in the street is also a bit of a revelation! I have now lost my excuse for walking straight past people I know though, hmmm."

http://writinghumbug.blogspot.com/2009/06/orthokeratology.html

Childrens vision problems and computer use

Children may suffer from computer vision problems as a result spending too much time at the computer screen. This is a new phenomenon and whilst there is no hard scientific evidence as yet anecdotally optometrist a reporting that shortsightedness is starting at a younger age.

Children and Glasses

Fox News reported yesterday on a recent study funded by Johnson and Johnson which not surprisingly concluded that children do better at sport and have a higher self perception if they wear contact lenses as opposed to glasses.

Olympic Judo Bronze Medalist looses contact lens while fighting

At the Bejing Olympics - Korean bronze medallist - Jeong Gyeongmi fought almost blind when one of her contact lenses fell out during her quarter final bout. If she had overnight vision correction lenses this would not have happened - she wouldn't have been wearing any.