Myopia Control for Children & Young Adults

Using a variety of treatments and techniques, our eye doctor is able to slow down the rate of myopia progression in kids and teens. The goal is to not only improve your child's vision, but to also reduce the risks associated with high myopia, such as retinal detachment, macular degeneration and other sight-threatening complications.

Myopia: What Is It and What Causes It?

Myopia, commonly known as nearsightedness, is an eye condition that can progress during childhood and adolescence. It’s caused by an elongated eyeball or an overly-curved lens, forcing light to focus incorrectly on the retina. Genetics and environmental factors such as prolonged near work, using digital devices excessively, and limited outdoor activities increase the risk of a child developing myopia.

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How is Myopia Treated?

At Eye Designs Optometry, we offer effective and personalized myopia treatment options to slow its progression.

If myopia is left untreated, it can raise the risk of developing serious eye conditions such as retinal detachment, cataracts, macular degeneration, and glaucoma. The earlier your child starts myopia management, the less chances they have of developing these complications in the future.

We use various myopia management strategies to help children maintain clear vision and healthy eyes for a lifetime. This includes orthokeratology (Ortho-k), contact lenses that are worn overnight to temporarily reshape the cornea, which gives the wearer clear day time vision without glasses or contacts. Multifocal lenses, pharmacological interventions, and lifestyle modifications can also be used to slow down a child’s myopia progression.

All of our treatment plans are safe and customized based on an individual’s unique vision needs, which allows us to offer effective solutions.

Vision for Life – it is our purpose, it is our passion, it is our responsibility.

It is a vital approach to your complete eyecare. It is because you matter, your eyes matter and eyecare matters. Our children matter and their future matters.

My husband, Dr. Thomas Murphy and I live, play, practice and raise our family of 7 in the greater Sacramento area. Over his 45 years and my almost 25 years of practicing in our community, we continue to pursue this mission of delivering eyecare that not only allow you to see and perform today but also into tomorrow and beyond. Our incredible team of doctors, opticians, technicians and leaders are all on this journey to deliver you the very best in vision and eye health.

For children – Don’t just correct – protect our children’s eyes for life! There is an ever-increasing epidemic of Myopia or nearsightedness in children today. Myopia is considered a progressive disease and there are no safe levels of myopia. Short term myopia may mean that your child struggle with seeing objects far away like the board at school. Long term this exponentially increases our children’s risk of sight threatening diseases as they age.

Correction in glasses or contact lenses is often not enough! Protect means not only providing clear vision today but providing the care and treatments that looks at their vision and eye health tomorrow and beyond. Protecting our children’s eyes means treatment plans, strategies and methodologies that slow down the rate of progression of their myopia. Each diopter of prescription that we can control is important as each diopter that our child progresses in near-sightedness leads to an exponential risk in eye diseases such as myopic maculopathy, retinal detachments, glaucoma and cataracts as our children progress into adulthood.

This is the level of eyecare that our children need and deserve! Taking action for our children’s eyes today is critical to their vision and eye health tomorrow! Our Myopia Management Clinic will insure that we give your child the best opportunity in vision and eye health. Start this journey of vision for life by scheduling a comprehensive eye exam with one of our doctors today!