Adelaide Eye Therapy

20/12/2025

20/12/2025

Happy Christmas team building! A few weeks ago we enjoyed terrarium making as our end of year event. So much fun! And now the competition continues .... to see whose plants survive the longest 🤣

Thank you to all our wonderful clients who trust us with their orthoptic and optometric care. I am so proud of our lovely bunch of therapists and all they have achieved this year. Thank you Denise Bartolo Zenobia Ujjainwala Jessie Collins Anita Brand Urmila Carter for your amazing dedication, care, and expertise. You guys are the best! 👁👌

22/11/2025

A wonderful few days of sharing and learning at the 2025 Trauma Symposium. Thank you to Nicole Kelly (Trauma Nursing Director RAH) and the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, for the opportunity to provide insight to the wider medical and allied health professions about the role of orthoptics in the care of patients following concussion and moderate/severe traumatic brain injury.

It was a joy to present to a room of likeminded professionals, and to hear powerful presentations from incredible TBI survivors such as and on their journey from injury, through recovery, and into life after their injury. Presentation highlights also included an update on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) by Assoc/Prof Rowena Mobbs.

30/06/2025

At on Saturday, RANZCO Fellows Prof Frank Martin and Dr Anu Mathew joined NSW Health Senior Clinical Advisor A/Prof Elisabeth Murphy, SA Optometrist Cassandra Haines, Children's Health Queensland Nurses Chantelle Pooley and Joanne Selby, and SA Paediatric Orthoptist Tania Straga to discuss children's vision screening programs in the respective jurisdictions.

💡Topics covered efficacy of screening technologies, importance of follow up clinics for children with vision problems, and strategies for advocating to government.



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Pictured left to right:
Senior Clinical Advisor A/Prof Elisabeth Murphy, Optometrist, Cassandra Haines, Paediatric Ophthalmologists Dr Anu Mathews and Prof Frank Martin, A/Clinical Nurse Consultant
Chantelle Pooley, Nurse Manager Joanne Selby and Paediatric Orthoptist Tania Straga.

29/06/2025

Another conference! This time the 3rd Congress of Asia Pacific Strabismus and Paediatric Ophthalmology Society. A strong contingent from South Australia, with a good mix of orthoptists, ophthalmologists, and optometrists. Team work makes the dream work.

Wonderful discussions on universal vision screening, myopia management and binocular vision disorders. We even taught a few ophthalmologists how to fit Fresnel prisms!

28/06/2025

We've made it to Brisbane for the 15th International Orthoptic Congress - A Fusion of Global Expertise. An exciting 3 days of presentations, sharing of knowledge, collaboration and research. And having such fun along the way!

25/06/2025

02/06/2025

Celebrating Orthoptics Awareness Week!
Orthoptists are passionate allied health professionals dedicated to providing excellence in eye care. Whether we work in clinical settings, education, leadership, industry or research, we take pride in our contributions to improving eye health for everyone in the community.

28/05/2025

There's one way to get Australian orthoptists excited ... hold the international conference on our shores! The last time this event was held in Australia was in 2004, so it's about time! We all can't wait for a busy few days of learning, sharing ideas and catching up with colleagues. Brisbane, here we come!

28/05/2025

Happy Birthday lovely Zenobia!

Thank you for all you do, and the care and empathy that you show to every patient you see. You are a joyful addition to out team, and we wish you a wonderful celebration.

20/05/2025

We are frequently asked, "so what's the difference between an orthoptist, ophthalmologist and optometrist?" We all work with the visual system, and yet our roles differ.

As orthoptists at Adelaide Eye Therapy, we work with both optometrists and ophthalmologists on a daily basis. We co-manage patients depending on their condition, to best optimise visual outcomes for patients. Orthoptists like nothing more than a "tricky" patient .... usually because the trickiness comes from a disorder of binocular vision and this is our thing! Orthoptists undergo specialist binocular vision training over a four year university degree, and this is an area that we are proficient and passionate about. Everyone we see has a disorder of binocular vision (whether due to a childhood or acquired strabismus, head injury or neurological condition) to some degree, and our job is to determine what this is, how to treat it, and when to refer on for surgery if this is indicated.

08/05/2025

Happy Birthday (and congratulations on your recent engagement) to lovely Denise! 🧡

We wish you a fantastic celebration, and thank you for the dedication and support that you show to all your clients. You are a clever orthoptist, and constantly strive to provide the best care possible. Thank you for all you do!