Driving in the Rain
Driving in the rain can sometimes be worrying and scary, but ensuring you have the right tyres fitted to your car can remove some of the anxiety. Quality tyres don’t have to cost the earth. At Branigans…
M-eye Head Hurts
According to Headache Australia, about 15% of the population suffers from migraines; that is 2 million Australians experiencing debilitating headaches characterised by nausea, light sensitivity and visual disturbances. Pretty scary stuff! M-EYE HEAD HURTS Migraines…
Where to find cheap quality tyres on the Gold Coast
Replacing a tyre is often a nightmare for car owners. A single, brand-name tyre can cost hundreds of dollars and you have to go to the effort of matching the tyre with the brands recommended by…
Is Your Car Roadworthy?
Nowadays, having your own vehicle is more of a necessity than a luxury. Developing infrastructures in both city and regional environments can mean you have to own your own car to get around easily. Driving…
Cheap tyres vs Expensive tyres – which is best?
Every driver knows that buying replacement tyres for your vehicle is one of the most expensive costs of owning your own car. Even if you don’t intend to buy diamond-studded tyres, like those sold in Saudi…
Toe Walkers: How vision therapy can save your feet
Toe walkers are those brilliant tiny people that begin walking as we all do – on tiptoes, so they can reach up and get at things that they probably should not be touching. However, due to…
When should you change your tyres?
Tyres wear out extremely quickly compared to other parts of your car, so it is the drivers responsibility to make sure all four tyres (and the spare, if you have one) are always in a…
Choosing the Right Tyres for Your Car
Most vehicle owners will only buy brand new tyres when they discover their current ones need to be replaced. However, if you have the chance, you should regularly check your tyres so you have the…
Why new tyres need a wheel alignment
If you have recently purchased new tyres for your vehicle, or are planning to buy a new set of tyres for your car, then you may have been offered wheel alignment. These are often provided…
DYSLEXIA: How Much is Related to the Eyes?
There is an astounding amount of research showing coincidence of learning difficulties and dyslexia, and vision symptoms and problems. DYSLEXIA We see vision as different to sight. It is the bit that happens in the brain…
The myopia boom – Are your glasses making your eyes worse?
Are you concerned that your child’s eyes keep getting worse year after year? It’s not without a reason. But there is something you can do to change this pattern and escape the statistics. THE MYOPIA…
The one thing you didn’t know about chocolate
It may be hard to believe, but Easter is just around the corner. Never mind the fact that it feels like yesterday we were making New Year’s resolutions, it seems like time flies when you…
Eye Have Anxiety
Over two million Australians live with anxiety, impacting their wellbeing, personal relationships, career and productivity. Anxiety affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men, making it the most common mental health condition in this country [1]. EYE…
Ready, set, go! How do you know if your child is ready for school?
The transition from preschool to big school is exactly that…BIG. It is a significant change for the child and the family. It is an achievement to be considered, conquered and celebrated. It is a new…
It’s pollen season! How does it affect your eyes?
Well, it’s that time of year and if you are anything like our dear Brian here at Thompson Larter Smart Vision Optometry, then you are probably sniffling your way through life with leaking eyes right…
What is screen time doing to your eyes?
At the end of a long day, after hours staring at a computer screen, your eyes are exhausted. You try your best to step away from the screen, but it doesn’t take long until you…
Making the world a more colourful place
Colour blindness is not something many of us think about much. In fact, it seems a pretty harmless and basic thing to have. I mean, if you are going to have something “wrong with you”,…
Choosing Children’s Eyewear: Annalise’s Story
As if the day to day trials and tribulations of parenthood aren’t challenge enough, let’s add another into the mix – choosing glasses for your child AND getting he or she to want to wear…
Don’t be in the dark about Macular Degeneration
Next week is Macular Degeneration Awareness Week, an annual campaign initiated by Macular Disease Foundation Australia to raise awareness of the risk factors and symptoms of macular degeneration and to encourage all Australians at risk of…
Love What You Do
“It is a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together” ~ Unknown If you had the chance to change someone’s life for the better, would you do it? If you had the…
Video Games – A look at interactive media’s effect on our vision
As technology integrates itself further into our daily lives, video games have also become a very prevalent past time for young and old alike. With its relatively rapid growth in popularity, the effect of games…
Fantastic Neuroplastic: The power of our great grey matter
Safely tucked away within your skull is one of the most remarkable, complex organs in your body – your brain! Although there is much we are yet to discover about the brain, scientists have revealed…
Reading is not scary anymore (and high achievers)
“Reading is not scary anymore” – we normally expect to hear this statement at the end of a vision training program. Would you expect it from a child, one who has had difficulty progressing with…
Our Parisian quest for unique eyewear
If you’ve been following our blogs over the last few months, you’ll have noticed that we often write about behavioural optometry and its transformational impact in our patients’ lives. But this time we’ll break the…
What do your eyes mean to you?
We have all heard the old proverb “the eyes are the window to the soul” and I guess that’s true. The eyes hold stories seen only by the person who possesses them. They are irreplaceable…
Is technology destroying our kids’ eyes?
Having watched my two young daughters become obsessed with the iPad has given me a very clear understanding of the insidious danger that technology presents for our children’s eyes. They seem so drawn and motivated…
Are all glasses created equal…?
This is a really good question, to which I’m sure you already know the answer, but have you ever wondered exactly why chain stores seem to be able to offer such seemingly cheap glasses? ARE…
Changing the way you see the world
Today I lined two chairs up across the room directly facing each other. I then asked my patient to sit on one and look at the other. I asked him what he could tell me…
Unleashing the love of reading through vision therapy
When reading or doing close work, a child’s eyes must turn in together (converge) for the words to be clear and single. This usually happens naturally. But for some children, the eyes do not turn…
When the Parent Becomes the Therapist
Vision therapy entails a set program tailored to each individual child to help them develop efficient and automatic vision skills, enabling them to perform to their truest potential. Our behavioural optometrists and vision therapists combine…