Our Services

EYE EXAMINATIONS

Your eyes are extremely important and keeping them healthy is vital to good vision. There are several things you can do to help keep them healthy including regular comprehensive eye examinations. Performing these examinations ensures that any problems are caught early such as glaucoma, diabetic eye disease, age related macular degeneration and much more, in which most of these eye conditions will have no warning signs without a comprehensive eye examination to enable your eye care professional to have a good look at the back of your eyes.

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OCT (Optical coherence tomography)

OCT is a non-invasive imaging test using light waves to take cross-section pictures of your retina, the light-sensitive tissue lining at the back of your eye.

With OCT, every layer of the retina can be seen, allowing your ophthalmologist to measure thickness of these layers which helps to diagnosis & provide treatment guidance for diseases such as glaucoma and others, such as age-related macular degeneration and/or diabetic eye disease.

Dilating eye drops may be used during an OCT examination in order to widen your pupil making it easier for your optometrist to examine the back of your eye. The OCT test takes between 5-10 minutes but if drops have been used to dilate your eyes, they may be light sensitive for hours after examination.

OCT is often used to diagnose optic nerve disorders as the exam can help determine changes to the fibers of the optic nerve, it is also useful in diagnosing the following eye conditions:

  • Central serous retinopathy
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Preretinal membranes
  • Macular hole
  • Macular pucker
  • Macular edema
  • Age-related macular degeneration
  • Glaucoma


OCT is not suitable for anyone suffering from dense cataracts or significant bleeding of the vitreous.

RETINAL PHOTOGRAPHY

We include Retinal photography as standard in our comprehensive eye examinations as we pride ourselves on the commitment we have to provide you with the best service possible.

A qualified member of staff will take images of the back of your eyes using our state of the art digital retina camera equipment. Our optometrist will take time to explain their findings to give you as much detailed information on your eye health.

This technique is one of the most accurate ways of screening your eyes for various eye diseases as it allows us to inspect the retina in great detail. The detection of certain such conditions can include:


By taking images and examining the back of your eye using this method we can help limit any unnecessary loss of vision


FIELD SCREENING

We will request a field sceening test as part of your eye examination if we need to assess the full horizontal and vertical range of your eye, including the sensitivity of your vision.

Field screening tests are used to assess if you have any scotomas (blind spots) which can indicate certain diseases of the eye. If scotomas are present, the size and shape of the scotoma can help ascertain the presence and severity of eye disease in the eye, optic nerve and also visual structure of the brain. Eye and brain disorders that can cause peripheral vision loss and other visual field abnormalities include:

  • Migraines
  • Cataracts
  • Glaucoma
  • Retinitis pigmentosa
  • Eye strokes or occlusions
  • Detached retina
  • Brain damage from stroke, disease or injury
  • Neurological damage such as from optic neuritis
  • Compressed optic nerve head (papilledema)
  • Concussions (head injuries)

A Field screening test at Stephen Evenett Opticians will include an automated perimetry test to measure your responses to the presence of objects appearing in various areas to your field of view. the optometrist will then asses and inform you of your results.

COLORIMETRY TESTING

Many of the symptoms of visual stress can be alleviated by tinted glasses or tinted sheets overlayed on text, symptoms of visual stress include:

  • Appearance of moving print
  • Rivers running through the print
  • Stripy print
  • Eyestrain
  • Headaches


Usually visual stress is found in conjunction with other conditions such as:

  • Dyslexia
  • Dyspraxia
  • Photosensitive Migraine/Epilepsy
  • Autism
  • ADHD

Colorimetry testing can determine what colour lenses are needed to help reduce the effects of these conditions, eyes can have colour sensitive cells in the visual vortex that become hyperexcitable when viewing print. By placing a colour in front of the eye it helps calm these cells and therefore limits the eyes excitability reducing the visual stress.


DRY EYE

Our optometrists are trained to recognise and diagnose eye conditions such as dry eye syndrome, we will examine your eye to determine if this is the case, and also assess your eye to see if you have any other associated conditions and complications.

Once diagnosed with dry eye we can give you guidance on how to treat dry eye syndrome depending on the diagnosis for your dry eye, this may mean artificial tears, oily eye drops, eye ointments or anti-inflammatory treatments.

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