This year, we’ve added a new specialist to our team – the optometrist Mgr. Pavel Kříž, Ph.D. You can find  him in our clinic three days a week. He mainly deals with complicated diagnoses in patients whose results  show no sign of any medical eye problem, but nevertheless suffer from bad vision. He also works on cases when a doctor has found a medical problem, but the patient’s symptoms don’t quite match.

For example, at present, Mr. Kříž is specifically dealing with strabismus, i.e.squinting,  and double vision in adult patients, with high degrees of refractive defects – short-sightedness (worsened vision of distant objects), long-sightedness (worsened vision of close objects), and above with astigmatism. The latter occurs when the cornea has an uneven curve, which is not in the shape of a hemisphere but is deformed. As a result, the rays of light passing through the cornea are refracted differently and do not meet in a single point on the retina. This causes blurred and deformed vision.

In the optometrist’s surgery in our clinic, you can also make an appointment for an entrance functional assessment, where the specialist checks the presence of defects of latent binocular vision (that is hidden errors in the cooperation between the right and left eye causing problems in spatial perception). If the result is positive, the doctor then defines the type of defect and the method of treatment.

What are the signs that I should visit our specialist, Mr Kříž?

These are signs of so-called binocular vision defects:

• Glasses or contact lenses do not improve your vision
• You sometimes see better with glasses, and sometimes better without them
• The doctor has not found any need to correct your vision sharpness with diopters, but you still can’t see see
• You can’t tolerate multifocal glasses on repeated occasions (glasses which help both for long-sightedness and short-sightedness)
• You sometimes squint
• You have problems reading (you lose your place in a text, you miss out lines, you read slowly, you concentrate less, your understanding of the text becomes worse, or the sharpness of your vision varies)
• You have the feeling that you are straining your eyes and they become tired quickly
• You suffer from diplopia (double vision)

If you observe any of the above-mentioned symptoms, make an appointment immediately with our specialist, Mgr. Pavla Kříža, Ph.D.

Telephone: 043/401 26 00

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If you would like to find out more about this issue, you can look forward to a long interview with Mr  Kříž which we will be publishing on our website.