Optometry
Mount Kisco Family Vision Care is an Optometry practice in Mount Kisco, NY
with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in examining eyes for both vision and health problems, and correcting refractive errors by prescribing eyeglasses and contact lenses, as well as providing low vision care and vision therapy.
Optometrists at Mount Kisco Family Vision Care perform
eye exams to detect any vision problems or diseases; requires testing visual acuity, depth, and color perception, as well as the ability to focus and coordinate the eyes. Optometry is
the practice or profession of examining the eyes for visual defects and prescribing corrective lenses. Significant diseases and conditions treated at
Optometry practices include conjunctivitis, diabetic eye disease, glaucoma, and macular degeneration.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Optometry
practices include visual acuity test, color blindness test, cover test, eye movement test, depth perception test, retinoscopy, refraction test, as well as autorefractor and abberrometer prescription estimate.
Doctors of optometry (ODs) are the primary health care professionals for the eye. Optometrists examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases, injuries, and disorders of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures as well as identify related systemic conditions affecting the eye. An optometrist has completed pre-professional undergraduate education in a college or university and four years of professional education at a college of optometry, leading to the doctor of optometry (O.D.) degree. Some optometrists complete an optional residency in a specific area of practice. Optometrists are eye health care professionals state-licensed to diagnose and treat diseases and disorders of the eye and visual system.
Optometrists in Mount Kisco, NY
Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometry
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 Mount Kisco, NY
Pediatric Optometry
Mount Kisco Family Vision Care is a Pediatric Optometry practice in Mount Kisco, NY
with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in evaluating and treating children's visual disorders.
Pediatric Optometrists at Mount Kisco Family Vision Care perform
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 at
Pediatric Optometry practices 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 Optometry
practices 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 Mount Kisco, NY
Sports Vision Optometry
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 Mount Kisco, NY
Vision Therapy Optometry
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 Mount Kisco, NY
Occupational Vision Optometry
Optometrists who work in Occupational Vision, the branch of environmental optometry, consider all aspects of the relationship between work and vision, visual performances, eye safety, and health.
Occupational Vision Optometrists in Mount Kisco, NY
