The University of Plymouth is running a clinic to help to identify and manage shortsightedness, with results already positively impacting young people.
Shortsightedness, or myopia, often begins in school aged children and progresses until early adulthood. Caused by excessive eyeball growth, it can lead to poor distance vision and its progression also increases the risk of sight threatening conditions such as retinal detachment and glaucoma.
However, in the last 10 years, exciting research has led to new methods of slowing down the development of myopia in children, and the University of Plymouth is running a clinic to offer the new strategies to those whose vision is affected.
The myopia management clinic is one of the services offered by the Optometry team at the University's Centre for Eyecare Excellence (CEE), and a new set of dates has been announced from Friday 6 September.
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