Pediatric Optometrist
Dr. Susan L. Durham is a Pediatric Optometrist in Raleigh, NC
with special training and skill in evaluating and treating children's visual disorders.
As a Pediatric Optometrist, Susan L. Durham, OD performs
physical and technological examinations of children's eyes to determine vision sharpness, screen for eye disease, and evaluate patients' need for glasses, contact lenses, or laser vision correction surgery. Pediatric Optometry is
a medical speciality focused on detecting, treating, and preventing children's eye disorders, prescribing glasses and contact lenses, and recommending vision correction surgery. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Pediatric Optometrists include nearsightedness, farsightedness, chronic dry eye, astigmatism, eye movement disorders, glaucoma, eye tumor, and amblyopia (lazy eye).
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Pediatric Optometrists
include visual acuity testing, inspection for eye disease and tumor, astigmatism testing, glasses and contact lens fitting, eye muscle movement evaluation, color blindness screening, depth perception assessment, glaucoma testing, and retinoscopy.
Optometrists who work in Pediatrics are concerned with the prevention, development, diagnosis, and treatment of visual problems in children.
Pediatric Optometrists in Brier Creek, Raleigh, NC
Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist
Dr. Susan L. Durham is a Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist in Raleigh, NC
with special training and skill in creating and maintaining contact lenses.
As a Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist, Susan L. Durham, OD performs
contact lens fitting and ongoing cornea evaluations. Corneal and Contact Management Optometry is
the treatment of corneal diseases and the maintenance of contact lenses. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Corneal and Contact Management Optometrists include myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, presbyopia, and keratoconus.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Corneal and Contact Management Optometrists
include managing standard contacts and scleral lenses.
The professional activities performed by an Optometrist related to the fitting of contact lenses to an eye, ongoing evaluation of the cornea's ability to sustain successful contact lens wear, and treatment of any external eye or corneal condition which can affect contact lens wear.
Corneal And Contact Management Optometrists in Brier Creek, Raleigh, NC
Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometrist
Optometrists who specialize in low-vision care having training to assess visual function, prescribe low-vision devices, develop treatment plans, and recommend other vision rehabilitation services.
Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometrists in Brier Creek, Raleigh, NC
Sports Vision Optometrist
An optometrist who offers services designed to care for unique vision care needs of athletes, which may include one of more of the following services: corrective vision care unique to a specific sporting environment; protective eyewear for the prevention of sports-related injuries; vision enhancement - which may include vision therapy and techniques to improve visual skills specific to the athlete's sport.
Sports Vision Optometrists in Brier Creek, Raleigh, NC
Vision Therapy Optometrist
Optometrists who specialize in vision therapy as a treatment process used to improve vision function. It includes a broad range of developmental and rehabilitative treatment programs individually prescribed to remediate specific sensory, motor and/or visual perceptual dysfunctions.
Vision Therapy Optometrists in Brier Creek, Raleigh, NC
