Blog Category - Eye Health

May

Save Your Vision Month

March is National Save your Vision Month. Here at Chu Vision Institute, we prioritize educating people about their eyes and eye health, so let’s look at a few ways you can protect your most precious sense: your vision! Wear Sunglasses Outdoors Sunglasses don’t just look cool; t...

May

Quit Smoking Today, the Future of Your Eyes Depends on It

Back to Blog Plenty of reasons exist to quit smoking. Cigarettes are expensive, your teeth and fingers get stained, smoking is highly addictive, and most importantly it is dangerous to your health! Smoking affects every part of your body including your lungs, heart, nervous syste...

May

Mary’s CK Eye Surgery in Bloomington, MN

Mary Grandpre, the illustrator for Harry Potter Novels shares her experience about the CK procedure she received at Chu Vision Institute. I'm so glad I went for the CK procedure. It’s amazing, and it’s made a world of difference for me. ~Mary Grandpre, Illust...

May

Presbyopia Treatment Options for Patients

Back to Blog For practitioners, understanding the advancement of a patient’s presbyopia is helpful in determining when and if to intervene surgically, and with what technology or procedure. In this conversation, Dr. Ralph Chu, MD, and Dr. Selina McGee, OD, discuss their go-to tre...

May

Presbyopia: Are We Ready?

Back to Blog“As eyecare practitioners, the most common question we hear from our presbyopia patients is, ‘When can you help me get rid of my readers? '” says Ralph Chu, MD, founder and director of Chu Vision Institute in Bloomington, MN. With the number o...

May

No More Readers? Implant May Help Aging Eyes

Back to Blog Fading, close-up vision is one of the more vexing and ubiquitous consequences of growing older. For Cheri Ekstadt of Lakeville, Minnesota, it’s meant buying nine pairs of reading glasses, which she places wherever she might come across something with fine print. “I u...

May

Envisioning a Future Without Reading Glasses

Back to Blog For individuals with cataracts or presbyopia who wish to reduce or eliminate their dependence on reading glasses, this is a golden age of treatment options — and the best may be yet to come. Anyone who has had to continually put reading glasses on to perform tasks, s...

May

New Raindrop Eye Implant Could Make Reading Glasses Obsolete

Back to Blog Thanks to a new eye implant called the Raindrop, a five-minute procedure could make reading glasses a thing of the past. NBC News medical contributor Dr. John Torres reports on the first patient to undergo the procedure since it received FDA approval. Watch the Today...

May

5 Contact Lens Safety Tips to Keep Your Eyes Seeing Their Best

Back to Blog Let’s face it, we have all been there. You just got to your friend’s cabin for a fun weekend getaway when you realize you forgot to pack your contact lens solution! If you didn’t bring your glasses along, you are likely to misuse your contact lenses and put your eyes...

May

Let Us Help You See Better

Back to Blog This is a video of real Chu Vision patients who talks about their everyday issues with their vision...

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