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Buck & Todd Optometrist Mackay

Locality: Mackay, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4957 3066

Address: 103 Alfred Street 4740 Mackay, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.bucktodd.com.au

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25.01.2022 For all our clients who may need help with their vision for whatever reason we are open and ready to help. We are practising strict hygiene measures. I you need a spare set for reading and have no problems give us a call and we can organise a repeat set over the phone. If you have any sore eyes, recent onset of flashes or floaters, a foreign body injury, terrible headaches, double vision, loss of vision or other changes that you feel are urgent we are here to help. If you are sick please see your doctor first. Please wear a mask when you come in and be prepared to wash your hands. We look forward to helping you see your way through this crisis and beyond. Stay healthy and stay safe and best wishes for all our clients.

25.01.2022 E-learning Without Eyestrain: Guide for Visual Health For Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic If your child is e-learning, be proactive to help prevent vision problems. If your child appears to be having screen-related eye fatigue, see Buck & Todd Optometrist first and discuss it - your child may have underlying problems made worse by excessive screen time. There is one topic that comes up over and over in the exam room right now and that is school. Let's face it, school is...Continue reading

25.01.2022 Busy day today getting equipment moved, new equipment installed and cabinetry delivered. Lots more work tomorrow but here is a taste of what the new and improved Buck & Todd will look like inside. Also a big cheer to my fabulous team who put in so much work to make these changes happen. It will be touch and go and some features won’t be finished, but on Friday in an incredibly fast turn around we will link tradition with the future and be reopen for eye care. Thanks, Dr Ieuan.

22.01.2022 After 35 years testing eyes at City Plaza 45 Wood Street, I have seen my last patient (in Wood Street). This Friday we open at 10:00AM in our new rooms at 103 Alfred Street. Many will know this as Dr Kirkwood's old rooms. We look forward to providing the same service with more room, better parking and expansion to our vision therapy services. We look forward to making a difference to peoples lives one pair of eyes at a time. Until Friday we are closed whilst moving and I thank you for your patience. See you in our new Offices soon. Best wishes Dr Ieuan and Staff.

21.01.2022 Emily bought her teddy in for an eye test today. Emily is a 5th generation client of Buck and Todd and we are pleased to report her vision is ready for school in 2020. Many thanks to Rosemary and the Ledwith and Franettovich families for their ongoing support. We are proud to have been entrusted with your family eye care.

20.01.2022 I am pleased to announce that I have just been offered and accepted the position of Honorary Teaching Fellow affiliated with the School of Optometry & Vision Science at the University of Auckland. This is in recognition for services rendered as our practice provides teaching services for the University of Auckland's School of Optometry & Vision Science for their Bachelor of Optometry degree. Many thanks to the University of Auckland.

17.01.2022 Walk through following day 2. Still more to do but getting close to being finished. Stay tuned for the final fit out. Big thanks to John Carter, Duncan Townsend (Townsend Cabinetmakers), Greg McNeil (Electrician), Carpet House, Zeke Foxon, Natasha, Carlton, Mercedes, Jeremy & Debbie Rees, Rachel Hayes, all my staff and not to forget Brad & Tammy. Thanks to everyone for helping put it all together.

16.01.2022 We wish to congratulate Jed for all his efforts over the past 7 months of vision therapy. Jed's oculomotor co-ordination has increased substantially and he has integrated his retained reflexes.He has developed significant improvements in his peripheral awareness and functional visual fields. Jed will need to continue some exercises and tuition at home. His visual system is now unlocked and he should be able to concentrate for longer without concentrated effort and without fatigue. Congratulations Jed you graduated Vision Therapy.!!!!

15.01.2022 Just because your child doesn't complain about their vision doesn't mean they can see well.

15.01.2022 Today we say farewell to one of our wonderful, long-time staff, Alison Midgley. All of Alison's Vision Therapy patients will now be seen by Elizabeth. We wish Alison all the best on her future endeavours.

13.01.2022 Impact of COVID-19 On Contact Lens Wear Advice for CL Wearers Advice to all contact lens wearers when ill with cold / flu or COVID-19 is to cease wear until at least 24 hours after symptoms resolve. It is well established that ‘strep throat’ (and colonisation of contact lenses by other bacteria in addition to Streptococcus) is associated with increased risk of contact lens associated inflammation. The dampened immune response while fighting the infection increases the risk of... inflammatory events. If contact lens wearers are well, they do not need to interrupt wear as long as they practise basic hygiene. This involves washing hands with soap and running water prior to any contact lens handling, including touching the eye. If soap and water are not available, the next best alternative is to use a 60% alcohol hand sanitiser. In both cases, the WHO method covering all hand surfaces and lasting 20-30 seconds is essential. For contact lens wearers, extra attention should be given to tips of fingers and thumbs which touch the lenses. SARS-CoV-2 can survive on surfaces so it is important to be particularly careful after travelling on public transport for example. An important point to emphasise is that SARS-CoV-2 is a virus enveloped in fat. This means that soap will repel the virus and break down the coating. Alcohol 60% is also effective against coronavirus within 30 second exposure. It is imperative after washing hands with soap to rinse the virus off with running water and dry with a clean paper towel. Timely Reminders 1. One time wear of daily disposables...don't over wear your lenses. 2, Disinfecting re-usable contact lenses after each wear (following manufacturers’ guidelines), 3. Avoiding water exposure to contact lenses, 4.Maintain contact lens case hygiene and timely disposal 5.Avoid overnight wear unless prescribed.

13.01.2022 DYSLEXIA: 1) True Dyslexia is rare but it does exist. 2) Most Dyslexia diagnosis’ are a result of a MISDIAGNOSIS because psychologists are not trained in recognising binocular vision dysfunction and never insist on a full comprehensive eye exam before diagnosis. 3) The fatal flaw in diagnosis tests is they are all vision based. When asked test my son for Dyslexia as if he were blind ...they had NO idea how to do that. ... 4) Dyslexia symptoms are all almost identical to symptoms of Binocular Vision Dysfunction and Visual Tracking disorder. 5) Vision Therapy cannot fix true Dyslexia but it can 100% absolutely fix misdiagnosed Dyslexia. We don't diagnose dyslexia, but we do break it down and diagnose its components including dyspraxia, dysnemkinesia, dysphonesia, dyseidesia, dysgraphia and we look for signs of auditory processing dysfunction, laterality issues and mid-line awareness. Following this, combined with a comprehensive binocular vision analysis we devise a plan to remove each of the impediments and through a multi-disciplinary approach, led by vision improvements in scholastic outcomes are achieved.

12.01.2022 We would love to know how you are coping with COVID-19. We are still open and disinfecting everything all day long and we could really do with some cheering up. So what we want from our young clients is for them to share some videos with us of them doing anything that isn't a screen based activity. Whether that is training your pets, doing gymnastics or backyard sports, building a bird box, music lessons, climbing a tree or on the trampoline. Surprise us with your ingenuity. Share with us and we might send the winner a toilet roll. P.S. This activity is designed to reduce myopia progression by reducing screen based exposure.

11.01.2022 Children’s Eye Exams vs School Screenings This is definitely one of my pet peeves. The Queensland Government encourage school vision and hearing screenings vs the parents taking their children to see the optometrist or the audiologist on their own time....Continue reading

10.01.2022 https://www.reddit.com//commen/8kginq/place_10_feet_away/ Just had to share this one...

07.01.2022 20/20 Be sure to keep your eyes on the ball.

05.01.2022 Congratulations Angus. You have graduated vision therapy. After 8 months of vision therapy you have improved your oculomotor co-ordination, peripheral awareness and overcome a convergence insufficiency to now a position where automation of balance, focusing, convergence and oculomotor control should allow you to perform near point tasks for much longer without fatigue. Well done Angus, see you for review in 12 months

03.01.2022 Dyslexia is an information processing error in the brain, but many children diagnosed as dyslexic are actually suffering from oculomotor dysfunctions of the eyes. To read fluently, the eyes have to perform five processes simultaneously, and a surprising number of people can’t do them all satisfactorily. But when these people go to an optometrist and read the chart, they do so perfectly well. That’s because reading one letter at a time is a static process, unlike reading parag...raphs of text, which is dynamic, so they go undiagnosed. The solution is often simple: a course of physiotherapy for the eyes known as vision therapy. Any child with reading difficulties should be seen by a behavioural optometrist who in combination with ensuring there are no ocular health issues and that any refractive error is appropriately corrected, can diagnose and treat oculomotor dysfunctions. Unfortunately, most children slip through the net because schools don’t understand the importance of vision and the relationship between effective oculomotor function and its integration with vestibular, proprioceptive, and auditory processing and the ability to read. If schools and politicians aren’t made aware of the life changing advantages of vision therapy nothing is ever going to change. This election consider asking your local candidate what they know about dyslexia and oculomotor dysfunction and what they could do to make a difference. Queensland has had a school dental program for over 40 years, perhaps it is time to consider a school vision program. Please share if you think it is time to make a difference. State government should be considering a pilot school vision program.

03.01.2022 Did you know that your peripheral vision helps your brain move your eyes accurately? If you have poor peripheral awareness, you are likely to have symptoms of: ... skipping lines when reading losing place when reading saying the wrong part of the word eye fatigue / tired eyes difficulty shifting focus between far and near poor handwriting poor reading comprehension A functional visual field (top pic) shows how much of your peripheral vision your brain is noticing. This photo shows a very constricted field, like tunnel vision. This patient struggles with reading comprehension, skipping lines or accidentally re-reading the same line. If you're only seeing a tiny portion of the page, it's hard to guide your eyes accurately. I've tried to demonstrate this with the bottom photo. You'll work hard to move your eyes, leaving less brain-space to store and make sense of the information. The main treatments are vision therapy, syntonics light therapy and low-powered lenses for nearwork. Do you or your child struggle with this? TAG A FRIEND who might find this information helpful! #eyetracking #peripheralvision #reading #skippinglines #dyslexia #losingplace #visiontherapy #syntonics #eyebrainconnection #readingcomprehension #academics #school #adhd #add #sensoryprocessing