Asheville Vision and Wellness now offers Marco Equinox low level light therapy
If you eyes burn, sting, or have a scratchy sensation, if you eyes are sensitive to light, or have trouble wearing contact lenses, you may suffer from dry eye disease.
Vision Insurance Benefits usually Expire at Year’s End – Use Them or Lose Them!
The end of the year is usually a busy time with holidays quickly approaching and it's easy to forget about using your vision insurance benefits before they expire on December 31.
Many vision benefits and flexible spending accounts (FSA) offer benefits that expire at the end of every year. In most cases, unused benefits cannot be transferred over to the New Year, typically beginning on January 1st. These are your hard-earned dollars! Don’t let them get wasted.
Can Your Eyes and Vision Help Identify a Stroke?
Health and wellness are frequent topics of conversation in the Asheville area. With thousands of miles of hiking and mountain biking trails and dozens of fast-flowing rivers and streams, western North Carolina is a hub for outdoor activity. It makes sense that residents would want to be as healthy and mobile as possible to be able to explore our beautiful mountains.
The health and wellness discussion often centers on diet, exercise, and physical fitness. Of course, those things are important, but your eyes deserve some attention as well.
Eye health and vision can tell you a lot about your overall wellness. In fact, your eyes may even be able to alert you regarding an impending stroke.
How Do We See Color?
The eyes are one of the most important and interesting parts of the human body. In a previous post, we discussed fifteen fascinating facts about the eyes. From the fact that an infant’s eyes don’t produce tears until they are upwards of a month to four months old, to debunking the myth that your eyes are the same size from birth to adulthood, there is a lot to learn about vision.
In this article, we want to dive a little deeper into one of the most compelling subjects regarding vision: how we see and perceive color.