Invest In Your Solution: Myopia Management Centre
Help your child go from good to great in life, school, and sports with Dr. Gall's science-based modern NeuroVision approach.
1. A Complete Digital Exam
If an eye exam has been completed within 12-months then it does not need to be repeated. The goal is to ensure your eyes are healthy. Diagnostic testing may require dilating drops to ensure the best optical prescription and healthy eyes. Dr. Gall will present and assess your performance with standard optical corrections.
2. Special Contact Lenses
Multifocal soft contact lenses combine multiple prescriptions into a single lens, improving vision at different distances and potentially slowing myopia progression. MiSight contact lenses are soft, disposable lenses specifically designed for myopia management and can be prescribed to children as young as 5 years old. Orthokeratology (Ortho-K) involves wearing rigid contact lenses overnight to reshape the cornea, reducing the need for glasses or contact lenses during the day and potentially slowing myopia progression.
3. Myopia Control Glasses
These specialized lenses for glasses are designed with specific features and have been shown to slow myopia progression. These lenses create peripheral defocus to help signal the eye to slow its growth (which a similar optical design as the contact lenses)
4. Low-Dose Atropine Eye Drops
These special eye drops are applied once per day, typically at night time, and can slow down the progression of myopia, but require continuous use and may have some side effects.
5. Red Light Therapy
Is a new technology that offers low-level LED red light therapy (FDA and Health Canada Class II safe), used under clinical supervision every other day for 3 minutes, has shown promise to slow the progression of myopia.
6. NeuroVision optimization
This NeuroVision care builds the eye-brain connection and reduces accommodative lag and visual distortion pattens linked to myopia – especially suppression of one eye under two-eye viewing.
7. Combination of protection modalities
Red Light Therapy or Atropine eye drops are easily added to specialized optical solution (glasses or contact lenses) to add a second break on the progression of myopia.
8. Lifestyle factors and nutrition
The effective environmental changes are important. Outdoor activities are encouraged along with limited screen time, as these factors can play a role in myopia progression. Children need a healthy diet. Consider a high protein diet with Vitamin D, omega-3 oils and antioxidants intake.