On the Field with Will Levis

NFL Quarterback

Will Levisโ€™ struggle with glasses and contacts

As a quarterback for the University of Kentucky Wildcats, Will Levis knew the importance of clear vision. Every move, every pass, and every decision depended on it. But being nearsighted and wearing contact lenses posed challenges that often impacted his game.

โ€œI've had to deal with glasses and contact lenses for my whole adolescent and adult life. I've even had my contact lenses knocked out during a game, taking away my ability during a play or a drive.โ€

When he was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in 2023, the stakes became even higher. Transitioning to professional football meant he couldn't afford any distractions, especially from his vision.

โ€œI wanted to do what was best for me and have the best edge that I could get. When looking at all the options, it became clear that EVO ICL was the best option for me.โ€

Why Will Levis chose EVO ICL lenses

When doing his research on EVO ICL, a couple of benefits stood out to Will:

  • Safety: Unlike other procedures, EVO ICL doesnโ€™t involve the permanent removal of corneal tissue.
  • Comfort: The EVO ICL procedure doesn't cause dry eye syndrome.
  • Removability: EVO ICL lenses can be safely removed by a doctor if ever needed. This added flexibility gave Will peace of mind.

โ€œOn the field, EVO ICL gives me more confidence in my game and my ability. EVO ICL lets me play more freely, not having to worry about the daily hassles that come with wearing contact lenses.โ€

โ€œMy day-to-day life has changed drastically. Being able to wake up and see clearly right away is such an underrated aspect of life. The difference in my eyesight from before and after the EVO ICL procedure is night and day. I truly know that getting EVO ICL is one of the best decisions I've made in my entire life.โ€

์ฃผ์š” ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ ์ •๋ณด

ICL์€ ์„ฑ์ธ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ -0.5D์—์„œ -18.0D ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜ ๊ทผ์‹œ์™€ 6.0D๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๋‚œ์‹œ ๊ต์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์Šน์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 21์„ธ์—์„œ 60์„ธ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ์„ฑ์ธ์ด ICL ์ˆ˜์ˆ  ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ Œ์ฆˆ์‚ฝ์ž…์ˆ ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„๊ฐ„ ์‹œ๋ ฅ์— ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ICL ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์€ ์•ˆ๊ฒฝ ๋ฐ ์ฝ˜ํƒํŠธ๋ Œ์ฆˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ์‹œ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ต์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆˆ์˜ ๋…ธํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ž์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋‹๋ณด๊ธฐ ์•ˆ๊ฒฝ์€ ICL ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ Œ์ฆˆ์‚ฝ์ž…์ˆ ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ํ›„์—๋„ ํ•„์š”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ICL์€ ๋ผ์‹(LASIK), ๊ตด์ ˆ๊ต์ •๋ ˆ์ด์ €๊ฐ๋ง‰์ ˆ์ œ์ˆ (PRK) ๋ฐ ์ ˆ๊ฐœ ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ตด์ ˆ ๊ต์ •์ˆ˜์ˆ ๋ฒ•๋“ค๊ณผ ์ฝ˜ํƒํŠธ๋ Œ์ฆˆ ๋ฐ ์•ˆ๊ฒฝ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์‹œ๋ ฅ ๊ต์ • ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ICL ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ Œ์ฆˆ์‚ฝ์ž…์ˆ ์€ ์™ธ๊ณผ์  ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ตด์ ˆ ๊ต์ • ์ˆ˜์ˆ ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ ๋ฐœ์ƒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ ๋ฐ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์ฆ์—๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€์  ์ˆ˜์ˆ , ๋ฐฑ๋‚ด์žฅ ๋ฐœ์ƒ, ์ตœ๋Œ€๊ต์ •์‹œ๋ ฅ ์†์‹ค, ์•ˆ์•• ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ๊ฐ๋ง‰๋‚ดํ”ผ์„ธํฌ ์†์‹ค, ๊ฒฐ๋ง‰ ์ž๊ทน, ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ๊ฐ๋ง‰ ๋ถ€์ข…, ์ง€์†์  ๊ฐ๋ง‰ ๋ถ€์ข…, ์•ˆ๋‚ด์—ผ, ๋น›๋ฒˆ์ง, ๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹ฌ, ์ „๋ฐฉ์ถœํ˜ˆ(์•ˆ๊ตฌ ๋‚ด ์ถœํ˜ˆ), ์ „๋ฐฉ ์ถ•๋†(์•ˆ๊ตฌ ๋‚ด ๊ณ ๋ฆ„), ์—ผ์ฆ, ๋ Œ์ฆˆ ํƒˆ๊ตฌ, ํ™ฉ๋ฐ˜ ๋ถ€์ข…, ๋™๊ณต ๋ฌด๋ฐ˜์‘, ๋™๊ณต์ฐจ๋‹จ ๋…น๋‚ด์žฅ, ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ์—ผ์ฆ, ํ™์ฑ„์—ผ, ํฌ๋„๋ง‰์—ผ, ์œ ๋ฆฌ์ฒด ์†์‹ค ๋ฐ ๊ฐ๋ง‰ ์ด์‹ ๋“ฑ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ICL ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „, ์ •๋ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์€ ํ›„ ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์ „๋ฌธ์˜์—๊ฒŒ ICL ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์˜ ์žฅ์ , ์œ„ํ—˜์š”์†Œ ๋ฐ ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒ๋‹ด ํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์ˆ˜์ˆ  ํ›„ ํšŒ๋ณต์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ƒ๋‹ดํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

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1. Gonzalo Carracedo, et al. The role of dinucleoside polyphosphates on the ocular surface and other eye structures. Prog Retin Eye Res. 2016 Nov;55:182-205. 2. Paul J Dougherty, et al. Refractive outcomes and safety of the implantable collamer lens in young low-to-moderate myopes. Clin Ophthalmol. 2017;11:273โ€“277. 3. Gregory D. Parkhurst, et al. Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation in United States Military Warfighters: A Retrospective Analysis of Early Clinical Outcomes of the EVO ICL. J Refract Surg. 2011;27(7);473-481. 4. Feingold et al. Biocompatible, optically transparent, ultraviolet light absorbing, polymeric material based upon collagen and method of making. USPTO June 8, 1999. 5. ICL in Treatment of Myopia (ITM) Study Group. Postoperative Inflammation after Implantation of the Implantable Contact Lens. Ophthalmology 2003;110:2335-2341. 6. Steven Schallhorn, MD et al. Night Driving Simulation in a Randomized Prospective Comparison of Visian Toric Implantable Collamer Lenses and Conventional PRK for Moderate to High Myopic Astigmatism. Journal of Refractive Surgery Vol.26, No. 5, 2010:321-326 7. Gregory D Parkhurst. A prospective comparison of phakic collamer lenses and wavefront-optimized laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis for correction of myopia. Clinical Ophthalmology 2016;10:1209-1215. 8. Donald R Sanders et al. United States Food and Drug Administration Clinical Trial of the Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) for Moderate to High Myopia Three-Year Follow-up. Ophthalmology. 2004;111:1683โ€“1692. 9. Elena Martines-plaze, et al. Effect of the EVO + Visian Phakic Implantable Collamer Lens on Visual Performance and Quality of Vision and Life. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021;226:117-125. 10. Data on file. STAAR Surgical Annual Report.

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1. Feingold et al. Biocompatible, optically transparent, ultraviolet light absorbing, polymeric material based upon collagen and method of making. USPTO June 8, 1999. 2. ICL in Treatment of Myopia (ITM) Study Group. Postoperative Inflammation after Implantation of the Implantable Contact Lens. Ophthalmology 2003;110:2335-2341. 3. Risto J. Uusitalo, et al. Implantable contact lens for high myopia. J Cataract Refract Surg 2002(28):29-36. 4. Gregory D. Parkhurst, et al. Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation in United States Military Warfighters: A Retrospective Analysis of Early Clinical Outcomes of the EVO ICL. J Refract Surg. 2011;27(7);473-481. 5. FDA. Before, During & After Surgery. https://www.fda.gov/medical-de... (as of 2021-12-24) 6. ์œค์žฌ๋ฌธ ์™ธ. ๋‚œ์‹œ๊ต์ •์šฉ ํ›„๋ฐฉ ์œ ์ˆ˜์ •์ฒด ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ Œ์ฆˆ ์‚ฝ์ž…์ˆ ์˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ž„์ƒ์„ฑ์ . ๋Œ€ํ•œ์•ˆ๊ณผํ•™ํšŒ์ง€. 2009;50(6):839-851. 7. Steven Schallhorn, MD et al. Night Driving Simulation in a Randomized Prospective Comparison of Visian Toric Implantable Collamer Lenses and Conventional PRK for Moderate to High Myopic Astigmatism. Journal of Refractive Surgery Vol.26, No. 5, 2010:321-326. 8. Gregory D Parkhurst. A prospective comparison of phakic collamer lenses and wavefront-optimized laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis for correction of myopia. Clinical Ophthalmology 2016;10:1209-1215. 9. Donald R Sanders et al. United States Food and Drug Administration Clinical Trial of the Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) for Moderate to High Myopia Three-Year Follow-up. Ophthalmology. 2004;111:1683โ€“1692.

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1. Steven Schallhorn, MD et al. Night Driving Simulation in a Randomized Prospective Comparison of Visian Toric Implantable Collamer Lenses and Conventional PRK for Moderate to High Myopic Astigmatism. Journal of Refractive Surgery Vol.26, No. 5, 2010:321-326. 2. Gregory D Parkhurst. A prospective comparison of phakic collamer lenses and wavefront-optimized laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis for correction of myopia. Clinical Ophthalmology 2016;10:1209-1215. 3. Donald R Sanders et al. United States Food and Drug Administration Clinical Trial of the Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) for Moderate to High Myopia Three-Year Follow-up. Ophthalmology. 2004;111:1683โ€“1692. 4. FDA. Before, During & After Surgery. https://www.fda.gov/medical-de... (as of 2021-12-24) 5. ์œค์žฌ๋ฌธ ์™ธ. ๋‚œ์‹œ๊ต์ •์šฉ ํ›„๋ฐฉ ์œ ์ˆ˜์ •์ฒด ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ Œ์ฆˆ ์‚ฝ์ž…์ˆ ์˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ž„์ƒ์„ฑ์ . ๋Œ€ํ•œ์•ˆ๊ณผํ•™ํšŒ์ง€. 2009;50(6):839-851.

์ด๋ณด ICL์˜ ์žฅ์ (์•ˆ๊ตฌ๊ฑด์กฐ์ฆ์ด ๊ฑฑ์ •๋˜์„ธ์š”?) - ๊ด‘๊ณ ์‹ฌ์˜ํ•„: ์กฐํ•ฉ-2022-04-033 (์œ ํšจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„: 2025.02.08)

1. Gregory D. Parkhurst, et al. Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation in United States Military Warfighters: A Retrospective Analysis of Early Clinical Outcomes of the EVO ICL. J Refract Surg. 2011;27(7);473-481. 2. FDA. Before, During & After Surgery. https://www.fda.gov/medical-de... (as of 2021-12-24). 3. ์œค์žฌ๋ฌธ ์™ธ. ๋‚œ์‹œ๊ต์ •์šฉ ํ›„๋ฐฉ ์œ ์ˆ˜์ •์ฒด ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ Œ์ฆˆ ์‚ฝ์ž…์ˆ ์˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ž„์ƒ์„ฑ์ . ๋Œ€ํ•œ์•ˆ๊ณผํ•™ํšŒ์ง€. 2009;50(6):839-851.

์ด๋ณด ICL์˜ ์žฅ์ (๋งˆ์น˜ ๋‚ด ๋ˆˆ ๊ฐ™์€ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•จ) - ๊ด‘๊ณ ์‹ฌ์˜ํ•„: ์กฐํ•ฉ-2022-04-029 (์œ ํšจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„: 2025.02.03)

1. FDA. Before, During & After Surgery. https://www.fda.gov/medical-de... (as of 2021-12-24). 2. ์œค์žฌ๋ฌธ ์™ธ. ๋‚œ์‹œ๊ต์ •์šฉ ํ›„๋ฐฉ ์œ ์ˆ˜์ •์ฒด ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ Œ์ฆˆ ์‚ฝ์ž…์ˆ ์˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ž„์ƒ์„ฑ์ . ๋Œ€ํ•œ์•ˆ๊ณผํ•™ํšŒ์ง€. 2009;50(6):839-851.

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1. FDA. Before, During & After Surgery. https://www.fda.gov/medical-de... (as of 2021-12-24) 2. ์œค์žฌ๋ฌธ ์™ธ. ๋‚œ์‹œ๊ต์ •์šฉ ํ›„๋ฐฉ ์œ ์ˆ˜์ •์ฒด ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ Œ์ฆˆ ์‚ฝ์ž…์ˆ ์˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ž„์ƒ์„ฑ์ . ๋Œ€ํ•œ์•ˆ๊ณผํ•™ํšŒ์ง€. 2009;50(6):839-851. 3. Elena Martines-plaze, et al. Effect of the EVO + Visian Phakic Implantable Collamer Lens on Visual Performance and Quality of Vision and Life. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021;226:117-125. 4. Data on file. STAAR Surgical Annual Report.

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1. Feingold et al. Biocompatible, optically transparent, ultraviolet light absorbing, polymeric material based upon collagen and method of making. USPTO June 8, 1999. 2. ICL in Treatment of Myopia (ITM) Study Group. Postoperative Inflammation after Implantation of the Implantable Contact Lens. Ophthalmology 2003;110:2335-2341. 3. Risto J. Uusitalo, et al. Implantable contact lens for high myopia. J Cataract Refract Surg 2002(28):29-36. 4. Elena Martines-plaze, et al. Effect of the EVO + Visian Phakic Implantable Collamer Lens on Visual Performance and Quality of Vision and Life. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021;226:117-125.

๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ์ˆ˜์ง‘ ๋ฐ ์ด์šฉ

์ด๋ณด ICL ๋ธŒ๋กœ์Šˆ์–ด ๋ฐœ์†ก์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ˆ˜์ง‘๋œ ์ •๋ณด๋Š” ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ ๋ฐœ์†ก ์™ธ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ข…๋ฃŒ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ตฌ๋…์„ ํ•ด์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ํŒŒ๊ธฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.