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Another year spent carefully navigating the changing eye health landscape has ended. Staring down 2022, we look optimistically towards our future as eye health professionals. Collectively the constant pivots have taught patience, resilience, tenacity, and hope.

The rugby championship may have passed, and both the World Cup and Big Game are still a few months away. Since we’re always in the mood for a good game, we set up a head-to-head matchup of two diagnostic tools to help you decide what is right for your optometry practice.

There’s no doubt you’ve seen a rise in patients in need of treatment for myopia. Exacerbated by long periods staring at screens and reduced time outdoors, myopia rates understandably exploded over the past year and a half. But the truth is, even before the pandemic, rising instances of myopia were alarming.

Often the difference between your success and that of another optometry practice may not just be in the equipment you use. While cutting-edge tools are important in staying on top of the services your practice offers, to gain a competitive advantage, you may want to consider looking at the person behind the equipment.

As you know, myopia is on the rise worldwide. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that half of the world’s population may be myopic by the year 2050. While that’s quite alarming, there is good news.

Are you struggling to get the best contact lens fitting for your patients? Whether you’re just launching your career or have built a successful, established practice, there’s always room to fine-tune your techniques.

As we slowly begin to find our way back to pre-Covid times, we face another shift in how optometrists operate. While change is inevitable, a few customs shifted during the pandemic that we believe should continue.