The screens of our computers, laptops, handheld devices, e-readers and other technological devices designed to bring convenience into our lives are an inconvenience for our eyes. Close to 80 percent of Americans sit at a range that is not reading distance while most eye correction prescriptions are set for this proximity, which makes the eyes have to overcompensate by squinting to bring the flickering screen sometimes 18 to 40 inches away into clearer focus, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, “Becoming a Squinter Nation”. Computer Vision Syndrome encompasses a list of prevalent symptoms individuals are complaining about with more frequency at the eye doctor. Below are the symptoms:

Headaches

Fatigue

Blurred Vision

Neck Pain

More than 90 percent of Americans are suffering Computer Vision Syndrome according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety. Add presbyopia, known as aging eyes, when the natural crystalline lens in the lens hardens making it harder to reflect light onto the retina that requires bifocal lens in order for a person to see near and far with one pair of corrective lens and you have a person pulling back or pushing the head forward to try to bring the computer screen into focus. Some optometrists recommend mid-range glasses for the sole purpose of computer reading. Some people are actually switching between two and three pairs of glasses to read on the computer, a book, watch television and drive.

Dr. Sandy T. Feldman, a leading corneal expert and refractive surgeon in San Diego, suggests a permanent solution that eliminates glasses mid-range and bifocal granny glasses all together. There is a new lens implant technology comes from cataract surgery. It’s a painless 20-minute procedure that entails treating the eye with anesthetic drops, then making a tiny incision to washing away that cloudy lens and replace it with a crystal clear, implantable intraocular lens known as an IOL. It’s a tiny implantable lens that looks similar to a contact lens but instead of placed in front of the eye it replaces the internal crystalline lens of the eye. The WOW results are instantaneous.

The adjustable IOL lens flexes like a natural lens of the eye to give you crystal, clear high-definition vision without glasses while reading on the computer, driving in the car or surfing in the water. The Crystalens automatically moves back and forth with the eye’s internal ciliary muscle to give you the ability to focus naturally at distances near, far and everything between at mid-range distances when reading on the computer or a handheld device.