Visual Stress Assessments

Did you know visual stress affects how you see the world?

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Visual Stress

Visual stress developed from eye conditions is extremely common, however, symptoms are not always recognised as visual stress. You may have unknowingly adjusted your daily habits and the way you learn, to work around your undiagnosed eye condition. Most visual stress conditions are noticed during childhood, although are sometimes missed until adulthood.

At Spectrum Family Eyecare, we help you understand your visual stress symptoms by assessing your vision. We provide you the tools you need to alleviate your visual stress so you can unleash your true potential.

Understanding visual stress symptoms

If you’re experiencing some irregularities with your eyesight, you may have an undiagnosed eye condition.

Words moving on the page, blurred vision, and struggling to concentrate are just a few symptoms that can occur from visual stress.

Learning and reading challenges

Visual stress can cause difficulties for both children and adults when learning and reading. Some challenges may include:

Light sensitivity (photophobia)

There are many environments where light sensitivity can occur whether indoors or outdoors. Some light sensitivity symptoms include:

Needing to close your eyes or look away when reading so your eyes can readjust
Finding pages too bright when you’re reading causing you to squint
Finding patterns difficult to look at – particularly stripes
Getting sore and irritated eyes when reading

Headaches and Migraines

Unfortunately, headaches and migraines can be caused by several factors. Visual stress may not be your initial thought when deciphering your symptoms. Headaches caused by visual stress may include symptoms such as:

Squinting and straining your eyes causing you to overuse your eye muscles
Sparkling/shimmering areas, blurred vision, zigzag lines, or blind spots
Colours, lights, and patterns are difficult to look at and focus on
Nausea, dizziness and, in some cases vomiting

Reducing visual stress

Understanding your visual stress allows you to make the necessary changes to improve your day-to-day life. You will read smoother, reduce your symptoms, and in turn your confidence will grow. We often see posture adjust as confidence improves!

By performing a colorimetry assessment, utilising the Cerium Intuitive Colorimeter, we can determine the optimum tint that your eyesight recognises to help reduce your visual stress symptoms. Understanding what colours are best interpreted by your eyes can greatly improve how you learn. Our goal is to boost your confidence and skyrocket your learning capability.

Have you noticed any visual stress symptoms?

How Spectrum Family Eyecare can help

At Spectrum Family Eyecare our team are ready to help by providing you eyewear which will improve your outlook on life, literally! If you or your child are suffering from visual stress, we’d love to meet you. Whilst visiting our practice, we aim to understand you and your lifestyle so we can provide you the best eyewear solution.

Why choose us?

Highly experienced within the eyecare industry since 1979

Friendly, experienced, and knowledgeable team

Local family-owned business

High-quality glasses repairs

Advice and tips to protect your eyes and eyewear

Accessories to reflect your personal style

Testimonials

“I have been to Spectrum twice now and cannot fault the quality of eyewear, the eye tests, the service from the optometrist and the superb fitting. Thanks to Paul and the team. Keep up the great work. I will never go back to Specsavers ever again!! I highly recommend to anyone that you try them next time. You wont regret it.”

"Paul from the armadale store helped with the diagnosis of visual dyslexia for our son. Wow what a difference. My son went from failing basic English to passing atar English. His writing and reading zoomed. Thank you"

“Exceptional service all round. The team helped me to choose from a very unique and fashionable range of frames. People constantly compliment my frames. As an adult suffering with visual stress, I can now say that my coloured lens have changed my life. My quality of life and ability to concentrate has improved immeasurably. I can't thank Paul enough for his time and attention.”

“Fantastic! Paul couldn't be more accommodating, he specialises in eye conditions and can help tremendously with dyslexia, headaches and epilepsy with specifically designed coloured lenses. My life has been so much easier since having my tailor-made lenses, highly recommend.”

“Amazing personal service at Spectrum. You feel like part of the family. I love the different styles and brands of frames and knowing I'm not wearing the same frame as half of Perth who go for the cheaper brands in the franchise stores.”

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Due to an increase in costs and Medicares rebate not now covering these, we have had to introduce a small fee for our half hour appointments. This is $35 for weekdays and $45 for Saturday appointments.

We have decided to help those in what we feel are 3 important groups by introducing a fully covered examination to the following:
a) Children 16 years old and below,
b) Seniors, with proof of entitlement, and
c) Concession card holders , upon proof of entitlement at date of service.

Frequently asked questions

How do I know if I have visual stress?

Getting tired quickly when reading, squinting to focus, or having regular headaches and migraines are just a few symptoms which can result from visual stress. The best way to know if you have visual stress is to book an appointment at our clinic for an examination and discuss options on how we can help.

What is a colorimetry assessment?

Our in-house Dispensing Optician has extensive knowledge with the Cerium Intuitive Colorimeter, the machine that performs the colorimetry assessment.

This assessment allows the Dispensing Optician to determine which colours and tints are best suited to your eyesight to help reduce visual stress.