Optometry

A study made by the association Visión y Vida confirms that the three month confinement we have experienced has had a negative impact on the population’ s visual health. Thus, according to the results of this study, more than half of the population has had their vision worsened, especially young people between 12 and 19 years old and people with early presbyopia.

Although it seems one of the most irrelevant problems of this pandemic, many eyeglass users have found these days that when they wear a mask, whether hygienic or surgical, their glasses completely fog up, stopping them from seeing properly. We tell you how you can prevent this.

Our Optometry Department clears up how to choose glasses for your children, what characteristics they should have, how the frame should be or which lenses are the most suitable.

On the first weekend of June was held in Santiago de Compostela the 3rd Clinical Conference of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control (EurOK Ibérica 2018), organized by the Iberian Section of EurOK (European Academy of Orthokeratology). The conference brought together optometrists, ophthalmologists and physicists to discuss safety in orthokeratological treatments. The aim of the conference was […]

The 3rd Symposium on Clinical Optometry was held on the 1st of June at the Medical Association of Barcelona. This symposium was organized by the Department of Optometry of the ICR. Four sessions were developed with numerous presentations by experienced optometrists who addressed the ophthalometric management of intraocular lenses. After the success of the 1st […]

The twenty-fifth International Congress of Optometry, Contactology and Ophthalmic Optic 2018, was held from April 13 to 15 at the IFEMA exhibition center in Madrid, under the theme “Directing our future”. This congress, organized by the Association of Opticians and Optometrists (Consejo General de Colegios de Óptimos-Optometristas) gathered together many experts in optics and optometry.  […]