Kineton Optometrists

Our fastest self-tinting lenses yet: ColorMatic® X.
ColorMatic® X are lenses that are clear indoors and darken outdoors - 54% faster than the previous generation! This offers you a seamless experience in all light conditions.
ColorMatic® X lenses are now available.

This Diabetes Week, we're raising awareness of the importance of regular sight tests in detecting signs of underlying health conditions, such as diabetes.

With sight-related complications as a result of the condition sometimes leading to damage to the retina (retinopathy), sight tests can be crucial in avoiding preventable sight loss and safeguarding vision.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/caf550ScRzX

Why you should be wearing sunglasses all year round | SpaMedica Protect your eyes and elevate your style with sunglasses. Discover the year-round benefits of wearing shades for optimal eye health.

Fed up of changing your spectacles to sunglasses when you step outside?
Rodenstock are running a promotion until 30th June that enables us to offer a free upgrade to their Colormatic 3 or Colormatic 3 Sun lenses.
If you are interested, please come in to the practice and have a chat.

Kineton Optometrists is proud to be a supporter of myopiafocus.org. MyopiaFocus provides impartial information on myopia and myopia management in children. Please also consider signing the organisations change.org/myopiafocus campaign to get the NHS to recognise myopia as an ocular disease and fund Myopia Management for Children”

"Computer spectacles are for screen work - and have no other use". This is a persistent myth, but it doesn't do computer spectacles justice. They can do much more than support our eyes in everyday office life: The glasses enable better recognition of details in the extended near range, which reading glasses, for example, can only do to a limited extent. Our Rodenstock computer spectacles can be individually adapted to typical work distances and eye movements – with larger viewing ranges exactly where it matters to you. The larger field of vision supports an ergonomic head and body posture and guarantees comfortable and fatigue-free vision. Whether you are reading, crafting, checking emails or delivering an important presentation: our computer spectacles with Ergo® near comfort lenses offer brilliant vision for fatigue free near distance vision at work and for your hobbies.

Eye diseases, such as glaucoma, often don’t show symptoms before it’s too late. More than 50% of vision loss can be avoided with timely diagnosis.*
Eye Care Check can help detect anomalies in the eye that may show early indications of eye disease, diabetes, or heart disease. Schedule your Eye Care Check now at your nearest Rodenstock partner optician.

Please note that the availability of the Eye Care Check service may vary by market.

*Source: GBD, (2019). Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators; Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study. Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Feb; 9(2)

With a special lens design, our MyCon™ lenses for nearsighted children create sharp focus vision while they can ensure that myopia in children does not progress uncontrollably. The lenses are based on a lens technology with proven effectiveness from an independent external long-term clinical study* and can be applied to any child from the first diopter, even preventively.

*Source: Tarutta EP, Proskurina OV, Tarasova NA, Milash SV, Markosyan GA. Long-term results of perifocal defocus spectacle lens correction in children with progressive myopia. Vestn Oftalmol. 2019;135(5):46-53.

Spring and Easter have arrived at Kineton Optometrists. As a bit of fun, count the eggs in the window, pop into the practice to tell us your guess, and we will randomly pick 1 participating child (up to 16 years old) with the correct answer to win an Easter egg! Entries will close on Tuesday 2nd April at 4.30pm and the winner will be contacted after that.

Having a tidy up, would anyone like a Land Rover poster before it goes in the recycling bin?
Not a lot of use to us as it doesn't actually show any Land Rover spectacle frames.

February is Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) month.

Macular disease is the leading cause of sight impairment in the UK, affecting approximately 300 people every day, usually over the age of 55.

With AMD people often find it challenging to read or recognise faces, athough peripheral (side) vision remains largely unaffected.

Thankfully, advances in technology, such as eye-scanning machines in opticians, lead to early detection and treatment.

If you are due an eye test - book today!

Our website is full of support and advice on living with a sight impairment and community services:
https://bit.ly/45FYYPV

Whenever a patient comes in for a Spectacle adjustment, or a small repair, we don't charge for the service. All we ask is that they make a donation in the charity tins. On behalf of the Air Ambulance, thank you to all that popped in some change.
We will continue to offer this service, so that the Charities benefit from your goodwill.

From all of us at Kineton Optometrists, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
We are open as follows.
19th December 9.30 to 5pm Optometrist attending.
20th December 9.30 to 1pm.
21st December 9.30 to 5pm Optometrist attending.
22nd December 9.30 to 1pm.
23rd December 9.30 to 1pm Optometrist attending.
Closed 25th, 26th and 27th.
28th December 9.30 to 1pm Optometrist attending.
Closed 29th, 30th and 1st January.
2nd January 9.30 to 1pm Optometrist attending.

Take a look at some of our new spectacles we have.
Feel free to come into the practice to have a look at our range of spectacles 👓

🍂Our Autumn Magazine is out now! 🍂

This issue has advice on dealing with the darker evenings, a tour of our social clubs, and a focus on Coleshill.
To download your FREE copy, just click the link 👉https://bit.ly/3E3jZY9

By law, all contact lenses (including novelty lenses) must be supplied by, or under the supervision of, a registered optometrist, dispensing optician or doctor. Contact lenses are not simply ‘fancy dress’, they are classed as medical devices, even if they don’t correct your vision and are worn just for fun.

Professional advice on wearing & caring for contact lenses is vital to guard against allergic reactions, eye damage & potential sight loss.

Visit your local high street opticians for spooky lenses that won’t harm your sight on fright night!

With the spooky season around the corner, don't forget to remind you patients about the risks associated with wearing novelty contact lenses.

You can download our infographic here.

https://tinyurl.com/yk4tmwbn