Category: Optometrist

Treating the Brain Through the Eyes

Have you ever heard of vision therapy? Not the eye muscle-building type, but the professionally administered vision therapy that actually makes changes in the brain? The individualized progressive treatment that uses optical devices such as prisms, filters, and lights, and integrates motor and cognitive skills? You’ve never heard of it? Then read on. More than 50…


Mississippi Man Gets Life for Killing Ex-girlfriend in Walmart

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi man was sentenced to life without parole for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend inside the Walmart where she worked as an optometrist. William Thomas “Tommy” Chisholm was found guilty of capital murder in the killing of Dr. Shauna Witt after just 26 minutes of deliberation on Friday, The Commercial Dispatch reported. Witt ran…