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Partners Pacific Optometry Blog

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Keeping Our Eyes Healthy as We Age

Early diagnosis is critical for stopping many sight-threatening conditions in their tracks, which is why we should be on the watch for signs of age-related vision loss...


How Does Animal Eyesight Work?

There is such incredible variation in how eyes work across the animal kingdom that we could spend years studying and barely scratch the surface, so to start out...


Eye Exams: Vital to Your Child’s Education

That chart, the formal name of which is the Snellen chart (after the 19th-century Dutch eye doctor Herman Snellen who developed it), is certainly a good diagnostic tool for catching nearsightedness...


Eyesight is More Than 20/20 Vision

All it means when someone has 20/20 vision is that they have normal visual acuity without refractive errors like nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism...


Welcome to the Glasses Club!

The temptation can sometimes be to leave the glasses at home instead of wearing them, even though that means going through a day of fuzzy vistas and squinting...


The History of Cataract Treatment

Over 20 million adults 40 and up in the US will develop cataracts, and by the time they reach 80, half of them will...


Important Eye Safety Rules for Fireworks

The danger with fireworks is that a lot of people forget that they are explosives, and that’s how they caused 12 deaths and ten thousand injuries in 2019 alone...


What to Look for in Your New Frames

The glasses you choose will be a huge part of the first impression you make on people. They’re a great way to show off your personal sense of style...


What’s Inside the Human Eye?

All inside something the size of a large marble, light waves are converted into continuous streams of detailed, accurate, moving images that we can understand and respond to. Our vision connects us to our surroundings...


Sports and Visual Skills

Strong visual skills are just as important to an athlete’s success as strong muscles. Athletes have to be able to process visual information very quickly so that they can respond to it...