Myopia

In the myopic, or nearsighted eye, light from a distance comes to a focus in front of the retina. As a result, objects at a distance are blurred while objects nearby are clear.

In the myopic, or nearsighted eye, light from a distance comes to a focus in front of the retina. As a result, objects at a distance are blurred while objects nearby are clear.

In most cases of myopia, or near sightedness, the near vision is clear, while the distance vision is blurred. At a young age, the myopic patient can maintain focus through their distance correction for both distance and near objects. As the nearsighted patient ages, they lose their ability to focus near objects through their distance correction. As a result, they must either remove their distance correction, or use a lens that will correct both distance and near.

Your eye care professional can prescribe spectacle corrective lenses or contact lenses to move the focus of light back onto the retina. The newest option for the correction of myopia is laser vision correction. This new procedure flattens the corneal curvature. Resulting in the refocusing of light back onto the retina.