Cerium Coloured Lenses
We use coloured lenses to improve the clarity and comfort of vision for people with certain conditions and needs. These include Mares-Irlen syndrome"
- Children and adults with reading difficulties
- Migraine sufferers
- Some people with diabetic eye disease
- Sports people
- People with Photo Sensitive Epilepsy
See the attached RESEARCH RESULTS which is a precise of the article Double-masked placebo-controlled trial of precision spectral filters etc.
COLOURED LENSES & READING DIFFFICULTY
Some children and adults who have difficulty with reading, experience visual distortion when viewing a page of print: the letters may appear to move, or to blur, the white paper may glare and cause eye-strain or headaches.
The resulting visual discomfort and perceptual distortion may interfere with reading and this condition is called Meares-Irlen Syndrome.
This distortion is common in people who have binocular vision problems (for which vision training may be appropriate), but it can occur quite independently in people whose eyesight is otherwise perfect.
Clinical research trials by the Applied Psychology Department of the Medical Research Council in England have shown that these problems can be helped by the use of spectacle lenses, tinted specifically to meet the individual needs of each patient.
The effect of the colour is generally to give greater clarity with reading, so improving fluency and efficiency with reduction in headaches and increase in concentration.
In order to determine this tint, assessment is carried out on the Intuitive Colorimeter, a new instrument developed for this purpose by the Medical Research Council and now manufactured exclusively and under license by Cerium Visual Technologies, England.
With this new instrument it is possible to examine the benefits of colour on reading in fine detail and with controlled variables.
The results of the test can be produced both reliably and accurately in the form of precision tinted lenses by utilising a new and unique system specially developed to complement the Intuitive Colorimeter. With this new method of tinting there are over 6,700 different hues available and so any colour determined through the Colorimeter can be matched.
REMEMBER, EACH PATIENT'S COLOUR REQUIREMENT IS UNIQUE AND THEIR PRECISION LENSES ARE INDIVIDUALLY MADE.
Before undergoing Colourimetry a full eye-examination should be carried out.
Precision tinted lenses are available with or without ocular prescription, as advised by the optometrist and should be used as directed.
CERIUM PRECISION TINTED LENSES
This is the only system prescribing tinted lenses for the treatment of dyslexia and visual distortion associated with reading that has been researched and trialled by the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit, England. See the following preci of the article "Double-masked placebo-controlled trial of precision spectral filters in children who use coloured overlays"
Other methods may not offer the same scientifically based and precise analysis of the colour that will be needed for each patient individually, coupled with the ability to reproduce the tints faithfully.
IMPORTANT : If coloured overlays are used for initial assessment, the most effective colour in overlays is not always the same as that for use in spectacles. The larger range of colour available with lenses helps obtain the best effects.
The Intuitive Colorimeter and Cerium Precision Tinted lenses is now available at Wanganui Eyecare Centre and we will be pleased to answer any further questions about this new technology.