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Evergreen Eye Care Blog is your trusted source for informative articles, expert insights, and valuable tips related to eye health and vision care. Explore a wealth of knowledge on topics ranging from eye conditions, vision correction options, to maintaining optimal eye wellness. Stay informed and prioritize your eye health with our engaging and educational blog content.

Make Eye Injury Prevention A Priority

Every time we open our eyes we are reminded of the remarkable gift of sight! Whether you’re watching the sunset or seeing your child take their first steps, your eyes allow you to see some pretty amazing things. Sadly, each year about one million eye injuries occur in the United States–9...

The Inner Workings of the Eye

Have you ever stopped to think about how amazing the human eye is? These complicated organs take light waves bouncing off the things in front of us and convert those into a continuous stream moving images that are accurate and detailed. They arguably connect us to our surroundings more than any o...

The Connection Between Sports and Vision

Being a successful athlete isn’t just about speed and strength — it’s also about vision. In order to be able to perform at their peak physical ability, athletes also need to be able to see and effectively and quickly process and respond to visual information, and that involves a number of d...

Women’s Eye Health

Men and women might not come from different planets, but there are certainly a lot of differences between the two — even with eye health. Women, unfortunately, tend to be more vulnerable to a number of eye diseases, even if they are less likely than men to sustain a sight-threatening eye injury...

Allergies and Our Eyes

Spring is a beautiful season with lots of flowers and vibrant greens...but it can be hard to enjoy when you have allergies. So why does springtime leave so many of us with itchy, red, and puffy eyes? How can we be sure it’s allergies and not something else, and what can we do to keep our eyes f...

How Germs Can Travel to Our Eyes

Most of us rub our eyes many times in the course of the day without really thinking about it. Whether we’re tired, our eyes feel dry or itchy, or there’s something stuck in one of them, it seems like the easiest way to make it feel better is to rub them a little. Unfortunately, doing that is ...

The Importance of Blinking

Do you know how many times you blink in a minute? Probably not off the top of your head, but it’s an important number, because blinking is essential to good eye health. On average, adults blink between 10 and 20 times every minute. Each blink only takes a tenth of a second, but it’s a very im...

How Headaches and Vision Are Connected

If you suffer from frequent headaches, it might be time to schedule an eye exam. For many people, headaches can be a symptom of uncorrected vision problems. This doesn’t happen in all cases of uncorrected or undiagnosed vision problems, and of course not all headaches are caused by vision probl...

Indoor Tanning and Eye Health and Safety

Some people might think of indoor tanning as the safer alternative to sunbathing, but that is far from accurate. In fact, in a briefing before the US Congress, eye doctors, dermatologists, surgeons, and other physicians spoke about the dangers of indoor tanning, and the World Health Organization ...

Are You Protecting Your Eyes at Work?

In honor of Workplace Eye Wellness Month, it’s time for a look at the steps we can all take to protect our eyes while we work. Depending on what type of job you have, your eyes will face different risks of health issues or injury, so we want to approach this in two broad categories: office jobs...

Why Eye Exams?

Whether you wear corrective lenses or not, regular eye exams are critical for maintaining good eye health! March is Save Your Vision Month, which makes it a great time to take a closer look at a few of the biggest reasons to make sure an eye exam makes it into our schedules at least every other y...