Regain Your Independence with Our Low Vision Expertise at Blount County Eye Center
We recognize the challenges of living with low vision. Our dedicated team is committed to providing compassionate care, utilizing advanced techniques that create personalized solutions.
We aim to enhance your remaining vision and improve your overall quality of life, ensuring you can confidently navigate the world.
What is Low Vision?
Low vision is a significant visual impairment that traditional corrective measures, such as regular glasses, contact lenses, medication, or surgery, cannot correct. This condition profoundly impacts daily activities, affecting everything from reading and writing to driving and recognizing faces.
Despite these challenges, we can help low-vision patients maximize their remaining sight. Our focus is empowering them to regain independence and functionality, ultimately enhancing their overall quality of life.
Our Comprehensive Low Vision Services
Low Vision Aids
Having low vision doesn't mean you can't engage in everyday activities. We offer a range of tools, from magnifiers to telescopes, designed to help you make the most of the sight you still have. Additionally, innovative gadgets can read books to you or provide phone assistance. Simple adjustments like optimizing lighting conditions, reducing glare, and increasing contrast can also significantly improve your viewing experience.
Bioptics/Telescopic Lenses
Enhance visual acuity with special binocular-type tools added to your glasses.
These tools, such as E-Scoop glasses or bioptic telescopes, are tailored to help you see small details like street signs, traffic lights, and faces more clearly.
Driving Aids for Low Vision
The inability to drive can be a major challenge associated with low vision, impacting your ability to see street signs and traffic lights. We provide bioptics and telescopic glasses that magnify these objects, restoring your ability to drive safely and helping you regain the freedom to visit loved ones, run errands, and feel independent again.
Smart Glasses with Enhanced Features
These cutting-edge devices can assist with object and facial recognition and provide real-time navigation guidance.
Mobility Training for Vision Loss
Mobility training is essential to comprehensive low-vision services. It focuses on developing adaptive skills and strategies to overcome challenges associated with reduced vision.
This training is tailored to each individual's needs, considering their specific level of vision loss, lifestyle, and personal goals.
