When you go in for your routine eye exam at our Peoria office, you’ll be offered a new service called optomap®. optomap is a crucial component of a comprehensive exam, and it can tell you some surprising things about the current state and future health of your vision.

Being diagnosed with diabetes comes with a whole host of concerns, most of which are related to monitoring glucose levels and maintaining overall health, but diabetics also face peripheral complications. One of those potential complications is eye disease.

What’s on your bucket list for 2019? It may feel like it’s a bit premature to start talking about New Year’s resolutions, but any time you spend thinking about making improvements to your life is time well spent. In some cases, thinking ahead may even score you some big-time savings.

In honor of World Sight Day on October 11, Illinois Eye Center is taking an extra moment to shine a light on this year’s theme: Eye Care Everywhere. 

How different would your life be if you could ditch your glasses?

It’s Healthy Aging Month, and we’re celebrating with these three tips for healthy eyes.

About 45 million Americans use contact lenses to improve their vision, but with the remarkable convenience of frame-free vision correction comes the increased possibility of irritation and infection. Are you taking the right steps to protect your eyesight?

Our kids so often learn by looking. From following along as their teacher writes words on the board to soaking in the delicate brush strokes of Monet and Renoir, the littlest people in our lives see the world in a very special way. 

Depending on your school’s fall start date, you’ve still got at least a month or two before you’re due back in class. What are you going to do with that time?

In addition to catching up on podcasts and making a few trips to the beach, what if you could completely change the way you see the world? LASIK surgery might be the key to altering your outlook for good. Here’s why you need to make an appointment and get evaluated ASAP:

Orthoptics involves the study of eye movements and binocular vision. Orthoptists evaluate patients and administer nonsurgical treatment for visual disorders such as amblyopia, double vision and strabismus (misalignment of the eyes).