The LASIK Blog

Melinda Owen Thrilled With Her New Eyes!

Melinda Owen presents me with a signed pair of track cleats she used in

last year's pole vault competition.  Check out our new LASIK for the Gold hats!

Melinda Owen did wonderfully following her LASIK surgery this week at EyeCare 20/20.  She was kind enough to drop us an e-mail:

So I want you to know that how happy I am with my eye sight!!! I pole vaulted today and wore my goggles so I had zero problems at all and saw as crisp as can be! I have been bragging about how exciting getting lasik has been to my family and told my mom and brother that I would want them to see Dr. Silverman if they were going to get it done. 

So when i was going through my bag Dr. Silverman gave me I found some cards for a free lasik evaluation and so I have convinced my brother to try to get in and see him.  He was an athlete as well, he wrestled for University of Michigan and now coaches wrestling at Harvard. I think after hearing how happy I am about my results it has really made him realize how much he wants to do it too. I hope you know how much I appreciated everything you did for me while I was there this past weekend.  I had a great time getting to know you all. I wrote a little thing up on my blog about it even :)

She also posted on her blog:

While in the training room, here at the Olympic Center, I was complaining about my contacts when a friend Ariel Martin explained to me a program she was apart of.  Lasik for the Gold, is a program Dr. Silverman started to help aspiring olympians get the care they need but may not be able to afford. Ariel is a BMX Biker who had just recently got Lasik done. She said she would email the program director about me, but I didn’t think to much of it until I got a call from them only days later.
. . .YAY!!! I couldn’t believe it.  Only two short weeks after receiving the call I was flown to East Hanover, New Jersey where I met with Dr. Silverman and his team to get Lasik Eye Surgery done It was a huge success!!! Not only am I able to see 20/15 now, but I was also given the opportunity to meet some amazing people.

As most anyone would be, I was very nervous to get the surgery done not to mention the fact that I was to fly across the country and do it all by my self. That is right, every girl wants her mom near by to take care of her :-)  But from the moment I landed, Dr. Silverman’s assistant Keri made sure I was completely taken care of and extremely comfortable.  I hope that they realize how appreciative I am for everything.  I suggest you take a Lasik for the Gold to see the amazing things Dr. Silverman has done.

http://www.lasikforthegold.com/

We are so looking forward to the upcoming pole vault season and rooting for Melinda in her bid to make it to the 2012 Olympics in London.  In the following video, Melinda talks about her experience with the LASIK procedure at EyeCare 20/20.

Sports Agent Blog Interview: Seeing 20/20… LASIK and Sports

I was recently interviewed by the SportsAgentBlog.com.  The interview was posted today.  This blog is the first site on the Internet devoted to servicing Sports Agents. My interview discussed LASIK and its relationship to sports.  Below is an excerpt from the introduction:

Tiger Woods and LeBron James. They are two of the most recognizable and celebrated athletes on the face of the earth. Both have an almost unparalleled ability to dominate their respective sports, are seen worldwide in countless marketing endeavors, and will both be considered two of the greatest athletes of all time. Another thing they share in common? They have both had LASIK eye surgery done. They’re not alone either. Greg Maddux, Amare Stoudemire, Rip Hamilton, and many others are also taking the time to get the procedure done. With so many big name athletes having their vision corrected, you can see a trend beginning to develop within the professional sports world.

According to a June 2006 Study, approximately 168.5 million residents in the United States, roughly 75% of the population, use some form of vision correction. So chances are you and most of the people you know are wearing glasses or contacts to see properly. With vision being such a critical aspect of every sport, many athletes are considering undergoing the LASIK procedure. Here with us is Cary M. Silverman, M.D., Medical Director of EyeCare 20/20 in New Jersey, to answer some questions about LASIK for us. As a distinguished eye surgeon, Dr. Silverman has been featured in publications such as USA Today, The New York Times, and as a guest ophthalmologist on The Health Network. He has treated a number of professional athletes and is currently correcting the vision of a number of U.S. Winter Olympians prior to the 2010 games in Vancouver.

Get LASIK Before Buying That Blu-ray or HDTV!

Two of my twitter buddies, @BSbikenj (also a biking buddy) and @cksthree, brought this information to my attention. Thanks!

It seems that there are many consumers who purchase Blu-ray players and HDTVs and are unable to perceive the added picture quality offered by the new technology.  Even the slightest deviation from perfect 20/20 vision renders the human eye unable to appreciate all those extra pixels. One blog suggests getting an eye exam and new glasses or contacts to benefit from the added resolution one is purchasing.

 Another suggests LASIK and blu-ray purchases.  

So, if you are not being wowed by that new 60 inch HDTV you just got over Christmas, maybe a LASIK screening should be on your to do list!

Jill Kintner Talks About Her LASIK in Her Blog

Olympic BMX Bronze Metalist, Jill Kintner posted her LASIK experience last week in her blog.  The post is titled "The light show- 20-20".  Below is an excerpt:

"ANYWAY,,, Here is how it works....After not wearing contacts for about a month, you go in, run through a half a dozen computerized and other line reading tests. They scan everything, check the shape of your eye, thickness, RX, etc. Dilate your pupil, then reverse dilate, double check, triple check, Then program the laser. After your eyes are back to normal from being dialated, they give you a vallium to relax , then some numbing drops before the surgery. THe surgery takes no time. Eyelids are clamped open, then they cut a flap in your lense, peel it over to get to the cornea, you go kinda dark for a bit and cant see, then a crazy light show, smell your burning cornea getting reshaped, then he peels the flap back over, you blink, and on to the next one, no pain at all. It happened so fast that I really was speechless afterwards trying to make sense of what just happened. This was the only surgery I have ever been awake for, cause you have to focus your eye, and it was crazy. Slept the rest of the evening, and was good to go the next day. Sweet. I am so glad I did this.

Seriously, worth every bit of the emotion and fear. So pumped. No more contacts, no more annoyingness. My brain is just happy to be seeing clear. www.eyecare2020.com

Thanks to Dr.Silverman, who probably thought I was the biggest sissy ever, Keri, and Amy Stanton for lining this up for me!! Think I am as spruced up with surgeries as I would ever want to be. Wish my knee would heal this fast."

No Excuses, Refs!

No Excuses, Refs!

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