Valley Health Magazine

By Rodney C. Remington, M.D.

If you had to live without one of your five senses – vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell – which would you least like to lose? If you’re like most people, you quickly answered “vision.” Yet, ironically, most Americans do little to avoid glaucoma, an insidious condition that is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the USA, and the second-leading cause of blindness overall.

By Eric J. Poulsen, M.D.

Cataract surgery has entered a new era due to the possibility of not only curing cataracts, but also the possibility of eliminating the need for glasses or contact lenses altogether…forever.

By Wayne Nishio, O.D.

Vision is the most important sensory system for integrating all five senses. Vision involves color, size, shape, texture, position, and the different aspects of movement such as speed and direction. Children must construct their world by experience. For example, a real understanding of space only develops by self-generated movement through space such as walking, crawling, jumping, etc. A child must also experience texture by feel, get a concept of weight by holding different objects, and increase their knowledge of other aspects of reality through experience. As adults, one glance at an object usually gives us an idea of its color, shape, weight, size, position, and so forth. How do we know this? From  experience. And, it is crucial that we do all we can to imbue  our children’s lives with experiences that will shape their worlds in much the same way.