For professionals whose performance depends on visual comfort and endurance, Grapevine Vision is the digital eye health clinic that delivers measurable relief from eye strain. We achieve this through designing a personalized program of at-home therapies and a one-on-one ergonomic consultation to optimize your workspace. We translate clinical findings into real-world comfort.
What should you know about digital eye strain?
Digital Eye Strain is the collection of visual, ocular-surface and neck–shoulder symptoms that build up after two hours or more of continuous screen use. Screens force the visual system into a “static workout”:
Blink-rate drops by up to 60% and blinks become incomplete, so tears evaporate and the ocular surface dries out.
Constant near-focus taxes the eyes’ autofocus (accommodation) and team-work (vergence), triggering internal eye strain.
Glare, high contrast, poor posture and sub-optimal prescriptions add extra load, feeding a cycle of dryness, blur and musculoskeletal tension.
Typical symptoms of digital eye strain include:
Dry, burning or watery eyes
Fluctuating or blurred vision
Headaches
Difficulty refocusing from screen to distance
Neck or shoulder ache.
Measuring blink stability, focusing stamina and screen habits and building a personalized plan can keep you productive and comfortable all day.
What methods help us understand and manage your digital eye strain?
We begin by evaluating for ocular surface dryness and developing a targeted plan to address your symptoms.
Your ocular surface disease index is scored, which gives us an objective baseline of dryness symptoms and helps us track your progress over time.
We estimate your daily screen hours & correlate exposure to symptom severity to help shape our lifestyle coaching.
Evaluating your tear break-up time reveals whether evaporation – not tear volume – is driving discomfort and we explore methods to reduce this.
We also review your medication list – some medications cause decreased tear production, decreased blink rate, or destabilized hormones important for gland function. This information can broaden our understanding of your symptoms.
We aim to catch hidden focusing or alignment problems by measuring how close your eyes can converge before one drifts off target, how quickly your focus can move back and forth, and how much “horsepower” your overall focusing system has. These metrics help to explain your symptoms and guide our treatment plan.
During your visit we spend a few focused minutes assessing and fine-tuning your visual, postural, and environmental workspace set up.
By dialing in prescription power for your exact screen distance and desktop tasks and recommending lens coatings offers, we provide you with all day visual comfort.
We run through your chair, desk, and screen positioning and make recommendations to set you up for optimal viewing comfort and reduce your body fatigue.
Balancing light and glare-free sight further protects both your posture and your ocular surface.
