EyeCare Optical - Hardin Valley

EyeCare Optical - Hardin Valley A division of Drs.

Campbell, Cunningham, Taylor and Haun, EyeCare Optical - Hardin Valley is a new concept in bringing quality vision care, designer frames and the latest in lens technology to the Hardin Valley area.

Prescriptions carry expiration dates, usually one to two years out, and people reasonably assume it is a mechanism to ma...
09/18/2026

Prescriptions carry expiration dates, usually one to two years out, and people reasonably assume it is a mechanism to make them come back. It genuinely is not.

A prescription is a medical finding about your eyes on the day it was written. Vision shifts. More to the point, the exam that produced it also checked things a prescription never records: the pressure inside your eye, the health of your retina and optic nerve, changes to the surface of the eye. An old prescription tells us nothing at all about any of that. The number is the smallest part of what happened at that appointment, and the rest of it is what complete vision care means.

Filling glasses or contacts from a lapsed prescription can also leave you with a fit that no longer matches your eyes.

If yours has expired, updating it is a short visit. Call us at (865) 584-0905.

Blue light glasses come up in nearly every conversation we have about screens, and the real answer is more useful than a...
09/16/2026

Blue light glasses come up in nearly every conversation we have about screens, and the real answer is more useful than a straight yes or no.

The research so far has not shown that blue light from screens damages your eyes, and it has not shown that filtering it meaningfully reduces eye strain. What actually causes that tired, achy feeling after a long day on a screen is that you blink roughly half as often as usual, and that your focusing muscles hold a single distance for hours at a stretch.

Where blue light filtering may help is sleep, since evening light exposure affects your body clock. That is a different claim from protecting your eyes, and the two are worth keeping separate.

We will happily fit you with them if you want them. We would just rather you know what they do and do not do first. Call us at (865) 584-0905.

Twenty-five years ago this morning.We are thinking today of the people who did not come home on September 11, 2001, and ...
09/11/2026

Twenty-five years ago this morning.

We are thinking today of the people who did not come home on September 11, 2001, and of the families who have marked twenty-five years of birthdays, holidays, and quiet ordinary Tuesdays without them.

A quarter of a century is long enough that for many people it has become history, something learned rather than remembered. That is exactly why the day still deserves to be marked out loud.

Across all of our East Tennessee communities today, we are holding those families in our thoughts.

There is no universal number, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on what changed. Most people land somewh...
09/09/2026

There is no universal number, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on what changed. Most people land somewhere between two and three years, but the trigger should be a reason rather than a date on a calendar.

Replace them when your prescription has genuinely shifted. When the lenses have collected enough fine scratches to scatter light and halo headlights at night. When a coating starts to craze or peel. Or when a frame has been adjusted so many times the metal has fatigued and simply will not hold its alignment anymore.

Do not replace them just because they look dated, unless you want to. A pair that fits well and still has the right prescription is doing its job.

If you are not sure which of those yours fall under, bring them by and we will tell you honestly. Call (865) 584-0905.

Happy Labor Day from everyone at EyeCare Optical.Today is the unofficial last page of summer around here. One more cooko...
09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day from everyone at EyeCare Optical.

Today is the unofficial last page of summer around here. One more cookout. One more afternoon at the lake before the water gets cold enough to argue about. A grill somebody has been meaning to clean since June.

However you are spending it, we hope today is slow in the best possible way.

And if you are one of the people working, keeping a store open, covering a shift, running a kitchen while everyone else is off, thank you. We hope somebody brings you a plate.

Enjoy the long weekend, East Tennessee.

September is Healthy Aging Month, and for most people the first truly age-related vision change is the one that shows up...
09/04/2026

September is Healthy Aging Month, and for most people the first truly age-related vision change is the one that shows up in their mid forties, when reading gets harder and your arms are suddenly not long enough.

Progressive lenses handle that by putting distance correction at the top of the lens, reading correction at the bottom, and a gradual transition between them with no visible line. Which is also why the first week feels odd. You are learning to aim your eyes rather than your whole head, and the outer edges look soft until your brain quits noticing them. Most people adapt within one to two weeks.

Two things make that easier: a frame deep enough to hold the full progression, and measurements taken to your actual eyes rather than to an average.

If you tried progressives years ago and gave up on them, the designs have improved a great deal. Call us at (865) 584-0905.

When a child's nearsightedness increases at every single visit, the instinct is to treat it as inevitable and just keep ...
09/02/2026

When a child's nearsightedness increases at every single visit, the instinct is to treat it as inevitable and just keep updating the prescription. It is not entirely inevitable anymore.

Myopia management aims to slow how quickly nearsightedness progresses while a child's eyes are still growing. The approach we offer is orthokeratology, or ortho-k: specially designed lenses worn overnight that gently reshape the cornea while your child sleeps. They come out in the morning, and most kids go through the day without glasses or contacts at all.

Why it matters goes well beyond thicker lenses every year. Higher childhood myopia is associated with greater lifetime risk of retinal holes and detachments, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and earlier cataracts. Slowing the progression is a long-term health decision.

It also works best started early. If your child's prescription has jumped two visits running, ask us. Call (865) 584-0905.

This one surprises people regularly. Your glasses prescription will not tell us what contact lenses you need, and a cont...
08/27/2026

This one surprises people regularly. Your glasses prescription will not tell us what contact lenses you need, and a contact lens fitting is a separate part of the exam for good reason.

Glasses sit about twelve millimeters in front of your eye. Contacts sit directly on it. That changes the power required, and it means we also measure the curve of your cornea, the diameter that will actually fit it, and how your tear film behaves. A lens that is slightly off will feel fine for an hour and miserable by dinner.

It is also why brand matters more than people expect. Two lenses with identical numbers on the box can sit completely differently on the same eye.

If your contacts have never felt quite right, that is usually fixable rather than something to put up with. Call us at (865) 584-0905.

There is a moment we see constantly and never get tired of. Someone puts on a new prescription, walks outside, and stops...
08/25/2026

There is a moment we see constantly and never get tired of. Someone puts on a new prescription, walks outside, and stops. Then they say some version of the same sentence: the trees have leaves again.

Vision usually fades slowly enough that nobody catches it going. You adjust instead. You sit a little closer, you turn on more lights, you quit reading in the evening because it got tiring, and you never quite connect any of it to your eyes. Life just feels slightly smaller.

Then it all comes back at once, and people notice the oddest details first. Street signs from a block away. The individual bricks on a building on Gay Street. The stitching on a baseball at a Smokies game.

If you have been adjusting to something without realizing it, that is worth an hour of your time. Give us a call at (865) 584-0905.

We say this with love, because everybody does it. The trouble is that a shirt hem holds dust, and dust plus pressure equ...
08/20/2026

We say this with love, because everybody does it. The trouble is that a shirt hem holds dust, and dust plus pressure equals fine scratches across the exact part of the lens you look through most.

What works better takes about twenty seconds. Rinse them under lukewarm water first so the grit floats off, add a drop of dish soap, rub gently with your fingers, then dry with a clean microfiber cloth. Not paper towels, which are rougher than they feel.

A few more worth knowing. Take them off with both hands, because one-handed removal is what bends frames out of alignment. Never leave them on the dashboard, since heat warps frames and can damage coatings. And store them lens-side up.

If yours are already sitting crooked, bring them by any of our locations and we will adjust them. That has always been free. (865) 584-0905.

Address

10841 Hardin Valley Road
Knoxville, TN
37932

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

Telephone

+18657614248

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