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  • Five Questions to Ask Your Low Vision Doctor

    Five Questions to Ask Your Low Vision Doctor By: Jarrod Long, OD, FIALVS-Low Vision Specialist, Mid West Low Vision Macular degeneration can make reading, recognizing faces, watching television, driving, and other everyday activities increasingly difficult—even when medical treatment is helping to stabilize the disease. A low vision doctor focuses on using your remaining vision more…

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  • An Introduction to PBM (Light) Therapy for Dry Macular Degeneration

    An Introduction to PBM (Light) Therapy for Dry Macular Degeneration By: Jarrod Long, OD, FIALVS- Midwest Low Vision and the Macular Health Center Photobiomodulation, often called PBM, is a light-based treatment being studied and used in our office and others for selected patients with early to intermediate dry age-related macular degeneration. PBM uses specific wavelengths…

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  • What Is Low Vision, and What Can Be Done

    By: W. Jarrod Long, OD, FIALVS Low vision means difficulty seeing even with regular glasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery. For people with macular degeneration, the challenge is not complete blindness, but loss of central detail needed for reading, recognizing faces, watching television, driving, using a computer, managing medications, or enjoying hobbies. Other causes include…

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