A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing Part 2: Objective Visual Field Testing As exciting as virtual reality may be with regard to portability and interactivity, all VR visual field strategies currently in development still require the individual being tested to...
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing Quick Review of the Current Limitations of Visual Field Testing Today, automated threshold testing is most commonly used to detect loss of vision from glaucoma. It is based on technology that is decades old. Although software...
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing How to get the Most out of your Visual Field Testing Given how important it is to obtain visual field testing and given how it takes both time and effort to do it, it makes sense to do what one can in order to obtain high...
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing Reasons Why Visual Field Testing Alone is Inadequate to Follow Glaucoma Progression As important as visual field testing may be, it is not the only test that should be performed in most individuals being followed for glaucoma....
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing Visual Field Testing – When it Should be Done Given how neither patients nor their doctors like visual field testing, we’d all like to do it as little as possible. With that in mind, just how infrequently can one get...
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hello I’m Dr. David Richardson. I’m a cataract and glaucoma surgeon in Southern California and on my morning commute, I like to discuss those topics that there’s just not enough time to discuss in the exam room. So today, I’d...
A Patient’s Guide to Visual Field Testing Visual Field Testing – What It Is One’s visual field is the space in front and to the side of an individual in which seeing occurs. Eye doctors call this the “island of Traquair”. A normal human visual field spans...
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Hello, my name is Dr. David Richardson. I’m a cataract and glaucoma surgeon in Southern California. Today’s commute was actually pre-dawn. So I’m here in the parking lot today. So it’ll be a parking lot video. What I’d...
