PV News - Monthly Newsletters

Our low vision products are the result of long and intense testing with a heavy focus on ergonomics and patient satisfaction. Precision Vision is proud to introduce to you our latest low vision products - The ERGO-Lux.

After a long stint of traveling, Precision Vision is back in the office and hard at work for you. We had a wonderful time meeting with our customers and other eye care professionals. While we had many questions about our products and services, one question stood out the most. What is that?

Precision Vision continues to grow with the latest developments in the eye care industry. At the forefront of these developments is interactive vision assessment. While current letter charts are still of absolute importance in vision testing, interactive testing allows the eye care professional new ways to extend their care and rule out bias factors.

Precision Vision now offers a lamp filter tube for a 85 cd/m2 light level in its ETDRS Illuminator Cabinets™ to match the 2006 ISO standard, which applies specifically to testing of multifocal lenses.

As a vision care professional, you understand why industry standards are important to the overall quality and effectiveness of your patient care. However, some manufacturers provide inconsisent or poor print quality in their eye charts, which can adversely affect the quality of your service, directly impacting the health of your patients. Here at Precision Vision, our products are considered standards in the vision testing community and we guarantee only the highest standards of print quality. How precise are we? Read on...

Some eye care office environments, or even testing and research environments, offer limited space and poor light conditions for vision testing. Professionals are often forced to make due with what they are provided and must find creative ways to place illuminator cabinets. Another challenge is portability. How easy is it to move your illuminator cabinet from place to place? Enter the Small LED Illuminator Cabinet.

The statistics are concerning - over 20 million Americans have early or intermediate AMD; one in five will lose some vision; twice as any people were afraid of going blind as compared to those who were afraid of a premature death or heart disease according to a world wide study sponsored by Pfizer and the World Glaucoma Association.

Welcome, friends. Nearly 30 years ago, a landmark study called ETDRS changed the course of vision care and treatment. ETDRS, or the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study, was a randomized clinical trial meant to aid patients with non-proliferative or early proliferative "diabetic retinopathy". It was historic and incredibly important to vision care and remains so today. Did you know that Precision Vision was involved from the very beginning? Read on.

The visual acuity charts developed for the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) offered a rigorous chart design and test protocol, that has been widely adopted in basic and clinical vision research. Today, the ETDRS format forms the gold standard for measuring visual acuity.

At Precision Vision, we love innovation and advancement in the field of vision testing, which is why this month’s eNewsletter is especially significant. We are extremely pleased to share a story with you from the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass. While one of our main focuses is manufacturing the tools to measure visual acuity, we know it’s you – the practitioners, clinicians and teachers in the field – who truly deserve the credit for helping patients and students with low vision reach their full potential. Check out our featured article below.

The fields of science and sports, different as they are, have long held fascination with one another. The science of sports medicine, for example, aims for the optimal combination of athlete health, safety, and performance. The science of vision care is no different. But would you have guessed that one of the most significant developments in low vision testing in decades is intimately tied to the international game of cricket? Absolutely. To see how, check out our featured article.

Precision Vision would like to introduce to you to the New SK Read Testing Chart. The SK Read is particularly useful for any eye care professional that’s treating macular diseases because it shows them the benefits of their macular treatments.

After more than 40 years of civil war, many Burma people have never had any form of vision screening, spectacles, medicine or eye surgical care. Working with like-minded relief organization affiliates, Burma Vision aims to plan, procure transport and deliver the public health components related to the eyes and vision: vision screening, dispensing of spectacles, eye drops and collaborate to bring cataract and other eye surgery to this needy region.

Precision Vision is committed to helping those with Low Vision. Did you know – that over 20 million Americans have early or intermediate AMD and that one in five will lose some vision? Precision Vision is committed to serving these individuals by providing Eye Care Professionals with top quality products that exceed expectations from manufacturers such as Schweizer, S. Walters, and the recently added MultiLens portfolio of products.

Precision Vision has an important goal - to assist eye care professional and patients in need of high quality eye care by producing eye care products that exceed all expectations. We're here to help, and that is why we're thrilled to report on the success of the Central Americal Relief Effort in Honduras this year, which we happily support with product contributions. We're proud to do our part.

Precision Vision has been the leader in reading card production for use in research and near vision assessment for many years with the MNread and Colenbrander Reading cards. Now, we include the Radner Reading Cards and would like to more fully introduce to you the features, history and how they were developed to assist in patient care and research.

Precision Vision is committed to helping those with Low Vision. Did you know - according to a world wide study sponsored by Pfizer and the World Glaucoma Association, twice as any people were afraid of going blind as compared to those who were afraid of a premature death or heart disease?

Did you know that Precision Vision is the world leader in reading card production? It's true. We work with three top vision care professionals to produce and distribute MNread cards, Colenbrander cards, and Radner cards. In this issue we discuss all the differences between them.

Vision testing has a long history.  Its recent history goes back to the mid-19th century when ophthalmology became the first organ-based specialty.

In October of this year, Hanna Lappalainen and the organization traveled to Sri Lanka where they were able to help more than 1500 local people with valuable eyecare.