2.  A leader in the field of vision correction, Dr.
Brian Boxer Wachler currently serves as medical
director of Boxer Wachler Vision Institute in
Beverly Hills, California. Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler
offers many procedures, including several for
the treatment of Keratoconus. Notably, he
treated Olympian Steven Holcomb, who
suffered from the condition.
In 2014, Steven Holcomb led the United States
to a bronze medal in two-man bobsled
competition at the Winter Olympics –
America’s first medal in that category since
1952.

3.  However, Holcomb’s success in the sport
was nearly never realized due to the
diagnosis some years earlier of
Keratoconus, an eye condition caused by
the bulging of the cornea that leads to
vision failure. Holcomb continued to
compete as his eyesight got worse,
however, and by 2007, he was unable to
read the top line of a vision chart and
attempted suicide.

4.  Holcomb survived, though, and went on to
meet Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler, who was the
first physician to offer the athlete an
alternative to corneal transplant (which
required a recovery time of two years and
would have ended his career). Dr. Boxer
Wachler instead recommended a novel
procedure he had shaped, then called C3-
R and now known as the Holcomb C3-R,
which repaired the athlete’s eyesight in
time for him to win a gold medal in the 2010
Olympics in the four-man bobsled.