Services

Optometric Services: General Eye Care begins with a comprehensive eye examination for everyone from infants to adults which evaluates the following areas:

• Eye Health (including diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma, dry eye, muscular degnertion, cataracts and diagnosis of diabetes & hypertension)
• Visual function (including binocularity, depth perception, and the ability to follow, fixate and focus the eyes efficiently)
• The need for glasses and contact lenses and their proper use (distance and/or near; part of full-time)
• Evaluation of the internal and external health of your eyes.

Contact Lenses: Same day service is available for most prescriptions. We prescribe hard and soft lenses, gas permeable, bifocals, disposables and tinted lenses. For patients with special needs, such as high astigmatism or keratoconus, custom designs can be prescribed.

Eyeglasses: We provide all types of prescription eyeware. Our in-office optical laboratory offers all of the new High Index, transitions, progressive addition and aspheric ophthalmic lenses that are on the market today. In addition, we also display over 1,000 frames and sunglasses in all styles and price ranges. If necessary, 1-hour service is available on most prescription eyeglasses.

Vision Therapy: Some visual problems cannot be corrected with contact lenses or glasses; vision therapy provides the opportunity to learn to use the two eyes in a more efficient manner. When two eyes coordinate well, more visual information can be received and comprehended. Students who easily coordinate their eyes read faster, understand more of what they read and retain longer. Drivers who use their eyes well together see more efficiently and tire less. VDT operators who are experiencing eye strain, headaches and other related visual symptoms may be helped with vision therapy, improving visual information processing benefits every area of an individual's life: school, home, play, work, and social relationships.

Vision therapy is a series of eye and vision activities specifically designed to enhance such skills as eye teaming, focusing, eye movements, peripheral vision, depth perception, visualization, and visual perception.

Vision therapy is particularly effective in treating:

• visually related learning disabilities
• strabismus (crossed or "wall" eyes)
• amblyopia (lazy eye)
  

Since vision is learned and develeped throughout life, prevention and rehabilitation (improvement) of visual skills is not only possible, but highly desirable.

Therapeutics: Dr. Ruiz has been certified by the Texas Board of Optometrists in the examination, diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases and disorders of the visual system, the eye and associated structures as well as the diagnosis of related systemic conditions.

Optical Services: Whenever corrective eyewear is required, it is essential that your prescription be accurately filled. It is equally important that your eyewear fit properly, particularly on the bridge and at the temple. They should feel comfortable and be kept straight an in adjustment at all times.