Technology helping eye doctors in Fresno tackle macular degeneration

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As we age, our imaginativeness tin commencement to change.

The older we get, we tin go much astatine hazard for oculus diseases, similar macular degeneration.

"Other than vitamins and antioxidants, we don't person overmuch to dainty folks with aboriginal and intermediate macular degeneration," says Dr. Neesurg Mehta.

The Eye Medical Center successful Northeast Fresno is looking to forestall macular degeneration from getting worse successful older patients.

"Unfortunately, arsenic we know, determination is nary cure, truthful we effort to bash everything to dilatory it down," Dr. Mehta said.

Macular degeneration tin impact a person's cardinal imaginativeness and is simply a starring origin of imaginativeness nonaccomplishment successful older adults.

Now, acknowledgment to a caller portion of technology, determination is simply a alteration successful however doctors dainty the information done the Valeda Light Delivery System.

"We're making the cells that enactment the retina enactment better," Dr. Mehta said. "Those cells person nutrients into energy, truthful this low-level airy helps to stimulate those cells truthful they tin enactment amended and dice little quickly."

While the instrumentality is small, the airy powerfulness packs a punch.

Dr. Mehta is an Ophthalmologist astatine the Eye Medical Center.

He walked maine done however the instrumentality works.

"It senses the patient's caput position, and truthful it locks in," helium said. "There's truly nary aiming required due to the fact that it's a diffuse light. There's conscionable an "on" button. They unfastened their eyes for astir 30 seconds to yellowish and adjacent infrared light. Close their eyes for 30 seconds to the reddish light."

This is the archetypal non-invasive attraction for macular degeneration for the Eye Medical Center.

Dr. Mehta says patients undergoing this attraction travel successful respective times a week, implicit the people of 4 months.

"The sanction of the crippled is to dainty earlier to forestall the onset of precocious changes," helium said. "This is what that does."

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