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October 01st 2006
PROFESSIONAL ELECTRICIAN AND INSTALLER - Special Report – Corrective Eye Surgery
FOCUS Laser Vision in Harley Street says it can help electricians who have poor eyes sight.
The Eyes Have it
Excellent eyesight is a must for all electricians and ‘close up’ vision is crucial for assembling small parts and working in tight corners.
With most of us working into our 50s and 60s, we are going to need reading glasses for those close up jobs.
Eye deterioration is inevitable is the sun rising in the morning. You can’t stop ageing, but you can prevent the negative (and sometimes downright cruel!) effects that it causes.
Six years ago Phil Barker, 52 an electrician from Southampton, noticed his eyesight was no longer what it sued to be and started having trouble reading the paper and working ‘close-up’.
“When I was doing terminations I could hardly find the slots to put the screws in – everything appeared fuzzy. When I picked up a paper it was really blurry, as was my watch and even reading texts on my mobile – I had to put on my glasses to see which calls I had missed!
“Close-up work was really tricky. Having to put on my glasses for fuse boars in tight dark cupboards was very awkward. Reading termination marks became guesswork. So I started wearing reading glasses but found it really annoying having to wear them all the time on a string around my neck.”
FOCUS Laser Vision
When you age, the internal components of your eye become stiff and rigid, losing their flexibility. These parts are responsible for focusing the images that enter through the front of the eye.
Because of this rigidity, they cannot fully focus as they did when you were younger. Suddenly everything within an arm’s length becomes blurry and you’re rewarded with your first pair of reading glasses. The bad news is it only gets works with time!
The good new is you can do something to prevent and improve upon it
Presbyopia is Greek for “ageing eyes” and is one of the biggest causes of vision loss in the UK. The latest correction method is Conductive Keratoplasty (CK) treatment.
“I heard about a new non-invasive treatment, which could rectify my close up vision, on the radio. I visited FOCUS Laser Vision in Harley Street, London to have the treatment.”
Reshaping
CK treatment works by reshaping the peripheral portion of the cornea (the front clear part of the eye) by exposing it to a series of small radio wave pulses – it’s quick, painless and non-invasive. The cornea is bent into a steeper shape to improve near vision. Dr Bernhard Bowen and Dr David Allamby at the FOCUS Laser Vision in Harley Street, recognised experts who have performed more than 2,000 CK treatments, carry out the procedure in their office.
“The treatment was simple, and took three minutes. I had anaesthetic drops in my eyes and I didn’t feel a thing. I could just hear a beep so I knew something was happening! The beep was the pen going around my eyes to tighten it up. Afterwards my eye felt slightly gritty, but that was it, there was no pain. I could read without glasses straight away and over the next couple of months my vision improved so much I could read even small print without glassed. I was back at work the following day!
“It’s fantastic and a relief not to have to wear glasses anymore – I’ve not had to wear them since I had the treatment done!”
Conductive Keratoplasty
What? Corrects presbyopia (age-related poor reading vision)
How? Radio waves pulsed on to the cornea
How Much? Consultation £95, then £1,295 per eye
Why? Non-invasive, quick and painless and patients can read close up without glasses afterwards
Where? FOCUS Laser Vision, 112 Harley Street, London W1G 7JQ, 08450 725 725; www.focusclinics.com |
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