Healthier Eyes, Stronger Vision
At Local Eyes, you’ll receive a comprehensive eye exam that provides deeper insight into your overall eye health. You’ll leave your exam with greater clarity regarding your visual system and a plan to protect and prolong your vision.
With every comprehensive eye exam, Dr. Tucker’s goals are to:
- Evaluate the functional status of the eyes and visual system
- Assess ocular health and related systemic health conditions
- Establish any diagnoses
- Counsel and educate you regarding your visual and ocular health and any related systemic health concerns
- Formulate a treatment and management plan
- Provide recommendations for prevention and future care
Eye Care That Meets Your Needs
A comprehensive eye exam addresses issues related to:
Nearsightedness
Farsightedness
Astigmatism
Focusing
Eye movement
Eye diseases
Color blindness
Depth perception
Peripheral vision defects
Comprehensive Eye Exam vs. Vision Screening
Regular comprehensive eye exams are the best way to ensure long-term eye health and vision. With specialty equipment and in-depth testing, a comprehensive eye exam goes beyond a vision screening.
Because a vision screening only provides information about one aspect of your complete eye health, you can pass one and still have eye or vision problems. Just like you need a complete physical to evaluate your total health, only a comprehensive eye exam can evaluate your overall eye health and vision status.
Comprehensive Eye Exam
Vision Screening
In-depth testing and procedures
Specialized equipment
Conducted by a doctor of optometry or ophthalmologist with specialized training
Provides definitive diagnoses
In-depth testing and procedures
Comprehensive Eye Exam
Vision Screening
Specialized equipment
Comprehensive Eye Exam
Vision Screening
Conducted by a doctor of optometry or ophthalmologist with specialized training
Comprehensive Eye Exam
Vision Screening
Provides definitive diagnoses
Comprehensive Eye Exam
Vision Screening
About the Comprehensive Eye Exam
Here’s what to expect at your comprehensive eye exam
Patient History
This portion of the exam helps identify and assess problems and provides an opportunity to become familiar with the patient and build a relationship of trust.
- Collect background information
- Demographic data
- Visual and ocular history
- General health history
- Family ocular and health histories
- Medication usage
- Visual requirements
- Other healthcare providers’ information
- Discuss patient’s vision status and presenting problems
Visual Acuity
Visual acuity may be measured monocularly and binocularly, with and without the patient’s most recent spectacle or contact lens correction, using the following procedures:
- Distance visual acuity (DVA)
- Near visual acuity (NVA)
- Pinhole acuity
- Visual acuity at identified vocational or avocational working distances
Visual Field
The visual field test assesses peripheral vision and can help identify blind spots, catch early signs of eye diseases, and diagnose and monitor various eye conditions.
Depth Perception
The depth perception test can help determine if a patient has any problems with perceiving distance. Depending on the results, further recommendations may be provided.
Color Vision
The color vision test determines the status of a patient’s color vision and if there is any color blindness. Color vision degradation can be a symptom of other serious diseases, so this test can help with early diagnosis.
Binocular Vision Testing
These procedures test eye focusing, eye teaming, and eye movement, and are incorporated into the exam depending on a patient’s age, symptoms, visual requirements, and preliminary test results.
- Evaluation of ocular motility
- Assessment of heterophorias, vergence ranges, and facility
- Testing for suppression
- Measurement of accommodative amplitude and facility
Refraction
Refraction results can be analyzed with other testing data and assessments to determine if an optical correction is needed and to what extent. The refractive analysis may include:
- Measurement of a patient’s most recent optical correction
- Objective measurement of refractive status
- Subjective measurement of refractive status
External and Internal Ocular Health Assessment
Thorough assessment of the health of the eyes and associated structures is an important and integral component of the comprehensive eye exam for both ocular health and overall systemic health. An ocular health assessment can:
- Diagnose ocular diseases
- Contribute to the diagnosis of systemic diseases (neurological, vascular, endocrine, immune, or neoplastic disorders) that have ocular manifestations
- Determine the impact any systemic disease has had on the eye and associated structures
Make An Appointment
Dr. Tucker is proud to serve patients in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is now taking appointments.
Call 402-423-3937 (EYES) or fill out the form, and we’ll get your comprehensive eye exam scheduled. We look forward to seeing you!
Appointments made for Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are with Dr. Kim Tucker.
