What are the Benefits of the ECIQ® Assessment?

The Brain-Blink Connection is representative of the relationship between our cognitive processes and blink patterns. Blinking is key to the health of our eyes as it not only preserves tear integrity, but facilitates brain processing. It is important to acknowledge that as we engage more with digital content in modern times, our blink frequency diminishes, resulting in mental fatigue and compromised eye health.

Eye discomfort symptoms such as redness, blurred vision, irritation, and headaches can interfere with your ability to manage daily tasks and get a good nights rest. These not only hinder our daily tasks like working, reading, and driving but also interfere with our ability to get restful sleep. Stressors, including sleep deprivation, poor diet, or burnout, significantly impact tear production and protection, highlighting the interconnectivity between lifestyle factors and eye health.

Our eyes naturally aim to maintain tear balance and blink frequently to replenish moisture. It is important to understand how environmental and lifestyle factors, notably digital device usage which has significantly increased in recent years, disrupt this balance. The use of devices can result in decreased blink rates, diminish the protective tear oil layer, and impair tear evaporation. Other irritants including bacteria, dandruff, or imbalanced oil production can further exacerbate eye irritation.

While our eyes naturally aim to protect and nurture, it's more important than ever to acknowledge and recognize the impact of our lifestyle choices on our eye health, including our device use. Although the Brain-Blink Connection is a natural phenomenon, the way we nurture or neglect this influences how effectively our bodies can respond.

The Eye Comfort Index Questionnaire (ECIQ®) focuses on the Brain-Blink Connection in this innovative tool, facilitating conversation not just on eye health, but cognitive patterns, and environmental influences. The ECIQ® recognizes that every individual will have a unique result from the assessment tool, and offers insights into personal habits and influences.

The ECIQ® assessment not only equips individuals with personalized insights to address their eye health, it also provides holistic, first of its kind insights to aid in developing evidence informed, whole-person treatment plans tailored to each unique individual. Harnessing the power of the ECIQ® honors the Brain-Blink Connection, helping to address both cognitive and ocular wellness.