Eye Exams
Comprehensive Eye Exams in Houston
Why schedule yearly eye exams?
People of all ages should get a comprehensive eye exam every single year, even if they don’t wear glasses or contacts. Getting your yearly eye exam in Houston is a great way to check not only your vision, but your overall health in a convenient 30 to 60 minute visit that’s usually covered by your insurance.
There are a few things our optometrists check for during your eye exam, including your vision, your eye health, and even your overall health!
Comprehensive Eye Exams in Houston
A comprehensive eye exam is so much more than the standard vision screening you get when you renew your driver’s license or that your child receives at school. Even if you’ve recently had a vision screening, it’s still important to come in for an eye exam in Houston every year.
During an eye exam, we look at how healthy your eyes are, how well you see, and so much more. Some treatments we may discuss during your exam might include:
LASIK
Contact lenses
Glasses
Myopia management strategies
IPL for dry eyes
In addition, we’ll talk about your eye and overall health, which can help with early detection of many serious conditions.
At Memorial Park Vision, we offer cutting-edge equipment to help provide more convenient and comprehensive eye care. For instance, we offer optomap retinal exams, which uses a high resolution camera to look at the retina in just a quarter of a second with no dilation required.
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Vision Assesment
During your comprehensive eye exam in Houston, our optometrists evaluate your near, far, and peripheral vision, as well as how well your eyes move and focus to help detect vision changes and problems.
Sometimes, the shape of your eye prevents you from seeing well. This is called a refractive error, and there are several different kinds, such as:
Myopia: A.k.a. nearsightedness, myopia means you can see well up close, but blurry in the distance
Hyperopia: A.k.a. farsightedness, hyperopia means you can see well far away, but not up close
Presbyopia: Presbyopia means your eyes have a hard time focusing close up due to aging
Astigmatism: Astigmatism makes it hard for your eyes to focus because of the shape of your cornea.
Vision problems can cause a lot of different issues, including headaches, eyestrain, difficulty driving, and school or work performance problems. In many cases, vision changes can come on gradually, making it hard to tell when you need vision corrections like glasses, contacts, or Lasik.
Eye Health
However, annual eye exams are important even if you have perfect vision and no symptoms!
During an eye exam, your optometrist also looks for signs of eye diseases that might threaten your sight or cause future problems, such as:
Glaucoma
Eye infections
Macular degeneration
Cataracts
Retinal detachment
The frightening part about many eye diseases is that they often cause no symptoms until the condition is severe and sight-threatening. For instance, glaucoma is often called “the sneak thief of sight,” because people often don’t experience symptoms until the disease has already caused permanent vision loss.
Getting annual eye exams in Houston is a great way to help with early detection of eye diseases that could affect your sight, health, and quality of life. By scheduling an exam each year, you increase the likelihood of catching and treating eye diseases early, which can help protect your sight and health.
Overall Physical Health
Did you know that many serious medical conditions can be detected during your annual eye exam in Houston? You might think that an eye exam only looks at eye health and vision, but your eyes can actually be a great indicator of your overall health.
Many say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but we prefer to say that the eyes are the windows to your health.
Regular eye exams can help detect many different health conditions, such as:
Diabetes
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Lyme disease
Stroke
Thyroid disease
Vascular disease
Brain tumor
Certain types of cancer
An eye exam might uncover signs of serious health conditions because they allow the optometrist to see blood vessels, arteries, nerves, and other parts of your body that typically aren’t easily visible. Eye health can often indicate how healthy you are overall.
If you have a condition that affects your blood vessels, such as coronary artery disease (a leading cause of death for people in the U.S.), in many cases these signs will appear in the blood vessels in your eyes as well. This is just one example of how eye exams are important for your overall well being.