Eye Services

We perform eye services for all your eye care needs. Infant, pediatric, adult, and geriatric comprehensive eye examinations are all provided at River Lake Clinic, PLLC. River Lake Clinic provides tailored care and specific evaluation and management for: Diabetic eye conditions, Glaucoma, Macular degeneration, Dry eye, Allergic eye conditions, Corneal dystrophy, Cataract, Keratoconus, Strabismus, Amblyopia, Ptosis, Eyelid conditions, Binocular vision dysfunction, and refractive errors, including myopia, astigmatism, hyperopia, and presbyopia. We provide custom and complex contact lens fitting services. We provide cataract surgery evaluations. We evaluate patients for LASIK, PRK, and suitable refractive surgical services.

Preventative Eye Exam

Regular eye exams detect vision issues and diseases early, preventing vision loss - act now.

Refractive Eye Examination

We use modern tools to evaluate your vision and offer personalized care for your eye health.

Contact Lens Evaluation

Customized contact lens solution through a thorough eye & vision assessment.

Refractive Surgical Evaluation

Our Refractive Surgical Evaluation enhances your eyesight & quality of life.

Dry Eye, Allergy
or Conjunctivitis Evaluation

Identify your eye problems and get custom treatments for better eye health.

Diabetic Eye Exam

Regular eye exams vital for diabetics to monitor vision issues.

Macular Degeneration Evaluation

Assess and treat macular degeneration with a personalized plan.

Vitreous Degeneration Evaluation

Comprehensive Vitreous Evaluation: Effective humor treatment assessment.

Glaucoma Exam

A comprehensive eye examination to detect and monitor glaucoma, a leading cause of preventable blindness.

Pediatric Eye Exam

Tailored eye exams for kids, for their vision development and well-being.

Binocular Vision Exam

Assessing eyes' teamwork for optimal visual comfort.

Environmental Eye Care

Shield your eyes with our complete eye care solutions.

Medical-Legal Eye Evaluation

Assesses visual function and ocular health for legal and medical purposes.

Corneal Disorders Evaluation

Our Corneal Evaluation covers a wide range of conditions for healthy eyes & vision.

Optometry Accepted Insurance

We accept various insurance plans for affordable and accessible eye care.

Functional Eye Exam

A comprehensive assessment of visual function to ensure optimal eye health and performance.

Preventative Eye Examination

An eye examination to check the health of a person’s eyes is advisable every one to two years. During this eye exam, we focus on evaluating the health of your eyes and determining ways to prevent a decline in vision or comfort of your eyes. Your eyes are important to life and maintaining excellent vision and comfort is best achieved through regular eye examinations. Eye examinations can detect early signs of eye diseases and often prevent progression of these diseases saving your vision and preventing discomfort and damage to your eyes. A preventative eye examination, often called a routine eye exam, may be performed in conjunction with a refractive eye examination to determine an eyeglasses prescription and/or a contact lens evaluation and/or refractive surgical evaluation.

Refractive Eye Examination

Refraction is the process of determining a person’s need for optical correction of refractive errors, including myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Refractive eye examinations often involve objective and subjective measures of what prescription lenses are required to provide the best vision for a person. Autorefractors are complex optical devices which we use as an objective measure of the refractive errors. Keratometry is a measure of the curvature of the cornea, the clear dome at the front of a person’s eye. Corneal topography can be used to map the cornea showing steeper and flatter portions in greater detail. Together, autorefraction, keratometry, and corneal topography are used to determine the best optical prescription to correct refractive errors. Correction of refractive error is often achieved with prescription eyeglasses. We have a full optical dispensary with prescription eyeglasses for every day wear for all ages, sunglasses, computer eyeglasses, occupational eyeglasses, hobby eyeglasses, safety eyeglasses, pediatric eyeglasses, infant eyeglasses, and sports eyeglasses. Contact lenses may also be used to correct refractive errors including myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Refractive surgical procedures, such as LASIK or PRK, may also be used to correct optical imperfections of the eye and provide our patients with clear vision.

Contact Lens Evaluation

An eye examination to check the health of a person’s eyes is advisable every one to two years. During this eye exam, we focus on evaluating the health of your eyes and determining ways to prevent a decline in vision or comfort of your eyes. Your eyes are important to life and maintaining excellent vision and comfort is best achieved through regular eye examinations. Eye examinations can detect early signs of eye diseases and often prevent progression of these diseases saving your vision and preventing discomfort and damage to your eyes. A preventative eye examination, often called a routine eye exam, may be performed in conjunction with a refractive eye examination to determine an eyeglasses prescription and/or a contact lens evaluation and/or refractive surgical evaluation.

Refractive Surgical Evaluation

Deciding to have an elective surgical procedure, such as LASIK or PRK, to correct refractive error is a major decision. Refractive surgical procedures have the best outcomes when patients are fully evaluated with a comprehensive eye examination including cycloplegic refraction and dilated fundus examination during which our eye doctors utilize advanced corneal and refractive instruments. When a patient is found to be a suitable candidate for refractive surgery, we discuss which refractive surgeon and which refractive surgical center would serve the patient best and co-manage your care throughout the pre-operative and post-operative process. We are fortunate in our ability to refer to some of the most highly-skilled eye surgeons in the country.

Dry Eye, Allergy & Conjunctivitis Evaluation

When you have an unhealthy ocular surface, it may become dry, red, watery, itchy, burning, or otherwise irritated for many different reasons and prompt evaluation is often best. Please call us immediately to evaluate any redness or discomfort. We will work promptly to determine the cause of the problem and how to treat it. We also treat many patients on an ongoing basis for chronic conjunctivitis, dry eye, and allergy issues. When you are also being treated by an immunologist (allergy specialist) or a rheumatologist, we will prepare eye reports and coordinate care with your other doctors as well as your primary care physician.

Diabetic Eye Exam

Diabetics should have a comprehensive eye exam with dilated fundus exam at least once a year and more often if there are any ophthalmic diabetic manifestations. We have the expertise and advanced technology to accurately detect and treat even early and minor diabetic eye complications, such as diabetic retinopathy or diabetic macular edema. We prepare and submit reports to other doctors helping to manage your diabetes, such as your primary care physician or your endocrinologist, to optimally coordinate your care and insure they know the health of your eyes is being managed well.

Macular Degeneration, Vitreous Degeneration, or Retinal Conditions Evaluation

Whenever a person experiences blank spots, blurred vision, flashes, floaters, a curtain or veil, they should be immediately evaluated by an eye doctor. When a person has macular, vitreous, or other retinal conditions, it is important that they are evaluated by an eye doctor with experience and comfort in diagnosis and treatment of conditions impacting the inside of a person’s eye. We work to preserve vision for patients with ongoing conditions and recent onset issues. Our expertise and advanced technology enables us to diagnose and manage all posterior segment conditions. We have treated thousands of cases of macular degeneration and retinal problems. We carefully craft patient-focused treatment plans and coherently explain complex medical conditions to each patient and their family members.

Glaucoma Exam

Glaucoma can cause gradual progressive loss of vision, loss of side vision, and tunnel vision. Often there are no symptoms until vision loss has progressed. Vision loss from glaucoma is not reversible and it is permanent. We are experts at early detection and successful treatment of glaucoma. We utilize advance anatomical imaging instruments and functional vision testing equipment to advance early detection and best treatments for glaucoma, which will maximize your chances of preserving your vision.

Pediatric Eye Exam

Children’s visual development is crucial. Vision shapes how well a child performs in school as well as extracurricular activities, such as music and sports. It is important to have your child’s vision checked by an eye doctor and not rely on school screenings or vision screening components of a well-child visit at a pediatrician’s office. A comprehensive pediatric eye exam is the best way to determine how well your child’s eyes are developing and what will maximize your child’s vision now and in the future.

Binocular Vision Exam

The way your eyes work together is critical to clear and comfortable vision. If computer use, reading, writing, or other tasks are difficult, produce eyestrain, or cause headaches, it is important for you to have an eye examination to determine the cause. When the cause is related to a binocular vision condition, we are able to discuss and formulate a plan to improve the way your eyes work together. Improving the way your eyes work together may involve eyeglasses, eye exercises, at-home work, or in-office work, and vision therapy. The first step is scheduling an eye exam for evaluation of your eyes.

Environmental Eye Care & Vision Safety

Our eye clinic has worked with the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Metro Transit, and the Minnesota Highway Patrol to analyze environmental aspects of vision and transportation. These evaluations have included asperity considerations pertaining to highway intersections in accident prevention, first responders, visibility of emergency vehicles, rapid transit and light rail transit. We also serve as vision experts for occupational medicine.

Medical-legal Eye Evaluations

Sometimes your eyes or vision may be harmed as a result of the action or inaction of a person, group, or business. This injury may have occurred while at work or while in the line of duty or active military service. When a person feels this may be the case, then it is best to coordinate what steps to take by discussing this with an attorney who specializes in helping people in your situation. Our clinic provides expert specialized evaluations of person’s who have suffered eye injuries when those opinions may be helpful in determining whether an eye condition is related to a particular incident, injury, or occurrence. We regularly provide such expert opinions relative to eye conditions and injuries to the Veterans Affairs Administration.

Are you concerned that you are a loved one maybe experiencing an eye problem?

Contact our team at River Lake Clinic today to schedule your eye exam. We look forward to meeting with you to review your concerns and symptoms to help you with optimum eye health. We proudly serve patients in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, and surrounding communities.

Comprehensive Eye Exam – What to Expect During Your Eye Exam

During your comprehensive eye exam, we focus on evaluating the health of your eyes and determining ways to enhance the vision and comfort of your eyes. Your eyes are important to life and maintaining excellent vision and comfort is best achieved through regular eye examinations. Eye examinations can detect early signs of eye diseases and often prevent progression of these diseases; thus, saving your vision and preventing discomfort and damage to your eyes. A preventative eye examination, often called a routine preventative eye exam, may be performed in conjunction with other services. Other services may include: (a) refractive eye examination (refraction), which is used to determine an eyeglasses prescription, (b) a contact lens evaluation, which is imperative to obtaining a contact lenses prescription, (c) a refractive surgical evaluation, which is the first step toward clear vision with less dependence on eyeglasses or contact lenses.

Our comprehensive eye exam process includes a dilated eye examination. This generally lasts between 60-90 minutes:

  1. Personal, Family, and Social Health & Medical History
  2. Visual History
  3. Entrance Testing
  4. Visual Acuity Testing
  5. Visual Field Testing
  6. External and Internal Eye Health Examination
  7. Review of Exam Results
  8. Treatment Plan

When your exam is completed, you should have an understanding of your eye health and make any necessary follow-up appointments as recommended by your doctor.

When an eyeglasses prescription is made, the doctor provides recommendations as to the best lenses, lens treatments, and notes to the optician who will help you fill the prescription. We have a full service optical where you can obtain excellent quality frames, expert fitting and adjustment, and the highest quality lens materials, designs, and coatings. For best vision and comfort with your eyeglasses, it is best to follow your doctor’s recommendations and fill your eyeglasses prescription at our optical.

Our contact lens prescriptions are issued with recommendations as to the best contact lens solutions, re-wetting drops, replacement cycle and proper handling instructions for the particular lenses we prescribe for you. For best vision and comfort with your lenses, it is imperative you follow the recommendations of your doctor.

What to Bring to Your Comprehensive Eye Exam

Patients coming to a Comprehensive Eye Exam should bring all their current eyeglasses, including: everyday eyeglasses, computer glasses, reading glasses, sunglasses, safety glasses, and sports glasses. Please bring all the different eyeglasses you have which help you with the various visual tasks you have. Please note the distance you are from various things you focus on throughout your day, such as your computer screen, workbench, dashboard, or instrument panel.

Patients who are Contact Lens Wearers should bring (or at least know) the names of their cleaning or storage solutions, lenses they are wearing most recently, and any re-wetting drops. Also, please bring any current eyeglasses you use with your contact lenses, such as sunglasses and computer glasses. Additionally, please bring any eyeglasses you wear instead of and without your contact lenses.

Any existing patients returning for a follow-up appointment should bring at least their most recent and often used everyday eyeglasses with them to their appointment.

Please bring your insurance card and government issued photo identification card and present these upon check-in to our staff at the reception desk.

Please bring cash, check, credit card, and/or health savings account card with you to pay for charges incurred the day of your visit, including copays, frame, lens, or contact lens charges. This will insure your orders for eyeglasses and contact lenses are placed immediately and saves us from printing and mailing statements.

Contact us today and see the difference that comes from routine eye care for everyone. We proudly serve patients in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, and surrounding communities.

Contact Lens Evaluation

At River Lake Clinic we work with our patients to meet their lifestyle and personal preference needs. No matter if you choose to wear eyeglasses or contact lenses we are here to help. We discuss lifestyle, comfort, convenience, budget, uses, aesthetics and more to determine whether contact lenses are suitable and which contact lenses are best for you.

A person should be evaluated by an eye doctor to determine which type of contact lenses will provide the clearest and most comfortable vision.

Following proper care and wear time instructions and wearing on the prescribed lenses will help prevent your eyes from being damaged. Your eyes can be severely damaged by:

Damage to the eyes from contact lens misuse and poor fitting contact lenses in the form of corneal abrasions and corneal ulcers can result in significant pain, blurred vision, and even permanent vision loss.

 

Quality Eye Care and Contact Lenses Professionals

Our eye doctors are experts at evaluating and fitting contact lenses and treating any contact lens complications. Our contact lens evaluations will insure you have exceptional fitting contact lenses. When you leave our clinic, you should understand the best practices in handling and wearing your contact lenses to safely provide you with comfortable and clear vision.

Contact Lens Evaluation May be Partially Paid by Your Vision Plan

A contact lens evaluation is rarely paid by a person’s medical insurance, yet, it may be partially paid by a vision plan or discount program in certain cases. Our doctors perform contact lens evaluations with the benefit of advanced technology for accurately assessing corneal health and determining corneal shape and contours to determine the best lens material, wear schedule, parameters and power for your eyes.

Contact us today to schedule your Contact Lens Evaluation!

Refractive Eye Testing

Refraction is the process of determining a person’s need for eyeglasses, contact lenses or surgical procedures such as LASIK or PRK.

We have all heard people say “I have 20/20” vision, when they refer to having perfect vision. 20/20 vision is the baseline measurement for optimum eye sight or perfect vision. People who have 20/20 vision are able to read font that is 3/8 of an inch tall from 20 feet away. Often people without 20/20 vision, have a refractive error in their eye. A refractive error means that the light is not bending and reflecting properly in the eye. When this occurs, corrective lenses may be placed in front of the eye (eyeglasses) or on the eye’s surface (contact lenses) to bend the light properly into your eye.

Refractive eye examinations often involve objective and subjective measures of what prescription lenses are required to provide the best vision for a person. Autorefractors are complex optical devices which we use as an objective measure of the refractive errors. Keratometry is a measure of the curvature of the cornea, the clear dome at the front of a person’s eye. Corneal topography can be used to map the cornea showing steeper and flatter portions in greater detail. Together, autorefraction, keratometry, and corneal topography are used to determine the best optical prescription to correct refractive errors. We do this testing to tell if prescription is needed to help correct conditions such as: myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Correction of these refractive errors is often achieved with prescription eyeglasses.

Eyeglasses, Lenses and Lens Treatments

We have a full optical dispensary with prescription eyeglasses for every day wear for all ages including:

Contact us today to find out if a refractive error is what is causing your vision problems. We proudly serve patients in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, and the surrounding communities.

Eye Care Evaluation for Dry Eye, Allergy, or Pink Eye

Are you or a loved one currently experiencing dry, itchy or gunky eyes? The doctors here at River Lake Clinic are here to help.

Your eyes should feel comfortable and free of irritation or redness. You should call and make an appointment today if you are experiencing any of the following symptoms:

Please call us immediately to evaluate any redness or discomfort. If you regularly wear contact lenses, please stop wearing your contact lenses whenever there is discomfort or redness and make an appointment.

We will work with our patients to determine the cause of the problem and how to best treat it. We also treat many patients on an ongoing basis for chronic conjunctivitis, dry eye disease, and allergy issues.

Eye Allergy Testing

When you are already being treated by an immunologist (allergy specialist) or a rheumatologist, yet, your eyes are still uncomfortable, we can help your eyes feel better. We will also prepare eye care reports and coordinate care with your rheumatologist as well as your primary care physician.

Contact us today to schedule your Dry Eye, Allergy, Red Eye or Pink Eye Evaluation at River Lake Clinic located in the greater Longfellow neighborhood Minneapolis and serving patients throughout the Twin Cities metro.