Optometry
Optometry is the science responsible for the primary care of visual health, through actions of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and correction of refractive, accommodative, muscular defects and diseases of the anterior segment. It also deals with the design, calculation, adaptation and control of contact lenses and ophthalmic lenses. According to the World Council of Optometry, "Optometry is a health profession that is autonomous, educated and regulated, and optometrists are the primary health care professionals of the eye and visual system, who provide comprehensive eye care And vision, which includes refraction and dispensing, detection / diagnosis and treatment of disease in the eye, and rehabilitation of visual system conditions. " Often, optometry focuses on measuring the refractive status of both eyes through procedures such as schistoscopy or retinoscopy and, above all, through ocular refractive methods. In this way, many visual anomalies such as myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, keratoconus or strabismus are detected, compensated and corrected, among others.