May 1, 2021

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT May is the month of Better Speech and Hearing, which we recognize in our article COMMUNICATION IS KEY AT ALL AGES. It...

April 1, 2021

A Message from the President With the Ides of March behind us, we look forward to PARKINSON’S AWARENESS MONTH, April. For those of us in...

April 1, 2021

  March Was "Save Your Vision Month" By: Erica Ikeda O.D., F.C.O.V.D., DPNAP Since 1927, the American Optometric Association (AOA)  had proclaimed Save Your Vision Week in the...

April 30, 2019

MAY – Maia (meaning “the great one”) is, in fact, the Italic goddess of Spring. Parkinson’s Resource Organization embodies all that spring represents: NEW...

April 10, 2019

April is a very spiritual month again this year, as I have acknowledged at the bottom of this message, but it also happens to...

February 28, 2019

As Charles Dickens said about March, “It was one of those days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it...

January 1, 2018

Vision impairment appears often in people with Parkinson’s, but perhaps more particularly in people with Parkinsonisms, such as PSP. There are very few Neuro-Optometric...

December 30, 2017

September 29, 2016

One symptom that only happens with Wilson disease is having brown rings around the iris (colored part) of the eyes (called Kayser-Fleischer rings). They...

May 30, 2015

Following a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, people often report visual symptoms, such as visual fatigue, eye strain, intermittent blurred vision, and headaches. These are...

March 4, 2013

For 20 years optometric clinicians and researchers have been aware of the power of prisms and lenses resolving many medical and neurological issues including...

November 3, 2012

Do you wonder how a pair of glasses could possibly appear to reverse the devastating effects of Parkinson’s disease? And yet, with a proper...

September 4, 2012

Visual function is often overlooked as part of the rehabilitation effort with Parkinson’s disease. Vision leads the MOVEMENT of the body, an area affected...

August 1, 2012

CONSCIOUS AWARENESS is a product of how we see. Our personal sense of REALITY is a result of brain processing. One person’s brain does...

July 1, 2012

Learn the benefits of rehabilitative therapy and corrective vision as well as  how vision effects balance, gait and posture in this article presented by...