If you are looking for the latest and greatest in contact lenses in Jacksonville Florida, Valuvision Eyecare, a locally owned and operated chain of vision centers, has been helping people see clearly for nearly 40 years. Here are some of the newer innovative contact lens products our optometrists are fitting patients with right now. The following products were reviewed by Read more »

Valuvision Eye Care is a locally owned and operated chain of optometric vision centers in      Jacksonville Fl and Orange Park Fl. Dr Erin Mark is a Optometric Physician or O.D. at the Regency Valuvision location. The following is a recent article Dr. Mark wrote regarding a common eye condition she treats on a regular basis:

Many of my patients have been told in the past that they have astigmatism, or “football-shaped” eyes, but do not know exactly what this means.  They may feel like this is an eye disease, or a reason that they cannot wear contact lenses.  While astigmatism, itself, is not an eye disease, there is a medical eye condition called keratoconus, in which a person’s eye progressively becomes more cone-shaped, which leads to a high amount of astigmatism. Read more »

Valuvision Eyecare is a locally owned and operated chain of vision centers. Valuvision has served the Greater Jacksonville and Orange Park areas for almost 40 years. Whether your looking for eye exams, contact lenses, eyeglasses, designer frames, or sunglasses, Valuvision has it all at a vision center near you in Jacksonville Florida. This article is the third in a four part series on the types and function of eyeglasses.

One of the primary functions of glasses is for correcting vision problems in eye such as myopia or nearsightedness, hyperopia or farsightedness, astigmatism and presbyopia. Optometrists are primarily concerned with this function of prescription eyeglasses as a means of providing eye care for patients.  Nearsightedness(myopia) is a vision disorder where near objects are scene clearly yet far object are blurry or Read more »

Eye care for children should begin between the age three and five. If there are not issues at that point, their next eye exam should be before they start school. This is the beginning of good eye care for children. If their vision is good, routine eye care can begin.

There are some disorders such as autism, ADD or ADHD which can possibly be misdiagnosed. Although it is not always the case, conversion deficiency can exhibit some of the same symptoms as ADD. It is possible for your child to have perfect vision, exhibit the signs of ADD and not actually have the disorder.

What can it be? Read more »