La Pine Eyecare Clinic
optometry services
Comprehensive Eye Health and Vision Examination
La Pine Eyecare Clinic is here to provide for all of your eye care needs. We offer comprehensive eye exams for children and adults, contact lenses, glasses, and treatment for a wide variety of eye disease and conditions.
patient history
A patient history helps to determine any symptoms the individual is experiencing, when they began, the presence of any general heath problems, medications taken, and occupational or environmental conditions that may be affecting vision.
visual acuity
Reading charts are often used to measure visual acuity. Visual acuity measurements evaluate how clearly each eye is seeing. As part of the testing, you are asked to read letters on distance and near reading charts.
Preliminary testing
Preliminary testing may include evaluation of specific aspects of visual function and eye health, such as depth perception, color vision, eye muscle movements, peripheral or side vision, and the way your pupils respond to light.
keratometry
This test measures the curvature of the cornea, the clear outer surface of the eye, by focusing a circle of light on the cornea and measuring its reflection.
Refraction
Refraction is conducted to determine the appropriate lens power needed to compensate for any refractive error (nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism). Using an instrument called a phoropter, your optometrist places a series of lenses in front of your eyes and measures how they focus light using a hand held lighted instrument called a retinoscope.
Eye Focusing, Teaming, and Movement Testing
Assessment of accommodation, ocular motility, and binocular vision determines how well the eyes focus, move, and work together. In order to obtain a clear, single image of what is being viewed, the eyes must effectively change focus, move, and work in unison.
eye health evaluation
External examination of the eye includes evaluation of the cornea, eyelids, conjunctiva, and surrounding eye tissue using bright light and magnification.
supplemental testing
Additional testing may be needed based on the results of the previous tests to confirm or rule out possible problems, to clarify uncertain findings, or to provide a more in-depth assessment.