I keep hearing about "natural vision correction" done by "exercising your eyes" anyone know if it works?
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i've heard of a few different ways to exercise your eyes. it really does work, but it does take time.
the best one i've heard of is to cover your eyes with some real thin fabric, almost mesh-like. then for one hour every day, watch tv or read a book with the fabric over your eyes.
the reason this works is that your eyes have to strengthen themselves to be able to make sense of what little visual info passes through the fabric.
If you mean cross eye correction, don't think exercise will work. Furthermore if you have surgery, it needs to be done by age 6 months, for best results. This is what we learned when child needed correction.
there's a book on it called "help yourself to better sight" I've heard it has helped some people, but I haven't tried it myself yet
I'm not sure of your age, but in my mid-20's I read the book mentioned in one of your answers.
Yes, it can work; it did for me. Depending on your vision. Mine is not that bad; I also did a workshop which is what convinced me.
There are tons of exercises, but, you HAVE TO do them !
My eyesight (mostly nearsighted w/a stigmatism in my left eye), improved to where I didn't wear glasses for 12 years.
But, as I aged, I couldn't read the signs on the highway that were a ways away. I got another checkup and found I was going farsighted; so . . . back to the glasses.
The time off was great though; and, I think it was good for my eyes. The exercises also strenghthen the muscles around the eyes.
If you are near-sighted or far sighted, it is from the shape of your eye. All the exercizes in the world will not fix that.
Think of the eye as two parts. The first part are the 6 extrinsic eye muscles that are responsible for your eyes to move in the sockets. These muscles have to work together in both eyes, if not then visual problems can occur. These muscles can be trained at a young age to work together better if a visual problem is found. Exercises are part of the treatment, as well as eye patches to strengthen a weak eye. Now the other part is the eye ball itself. The image you look at must focus at the back of the eye or the retina. If the focal point is not correct it can be corrected by corrective lenses, or laser surgery. There is no I mean NO eye exercise in the universe that will change the shape of the eye ball or alter the shape and softness of the lens of the eye. So this means that eye exercises will not fix visual acuity problems like far or near sightedness or astigmatism.
Every day nod your head frontwards, backwards, left side, right side three times and than rotate head in circlular motion three times. More effective if you do it will walking.
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