Cycloplegic Refractions & Avoiding Early Myopia
What a cycloplegic refraction is A cycloplegic refraction is an eye test done after drops are put in that temporarily stop the focusing muscle inside the eye from working. With that muscle switched off, the eye cannot change its own focus during the test, so the measurement reflects the eye's underlying optics rather than whatever the eye happened to be doing at that moment. The word does the work: cycloplegia means paralysis of the ciliary muscle, the ring of muscle that changes the shape of [...]
Why do Singaporean kids have eye sight problems that are 3-4x the world average?
This question, recently on Quora. Here's my response:I can speak with some authority on this topic, having reversed my own -5.00 diopters of myopia. I also have thousands of students working on controlling their own myopia, including a number of Sinagporeans who successfully stopped their myopia progression and even reversed it (glad to introduce you, if you like for some first hand insights). It may sound far fetched at first, but if you're willing to look at science and ignore retail optometry crying foul, you'll find [...]
Eureka!
Very excited this morning. Because yesterday, I found it! Yes, I found active focus! And it wasn't actually that difficult. I expected to be that one person that can't find it. I must have read the session on it about 10 times, until it sank in, but that's ok, it's a totally new concept for me too. We are after all making our eyes, and those poor ciliary muscles, work in a way they have never worked before. But it happened exactly as described in [...]
Talk In The Park: -1.50 To 20/20
Just arrived in Tokyo, exhausted today! If you're up for a bit of video, here are some musings about my final journey out of myopia.Remember to give it a thumbs if you like it.Cheers,-Jake Related improvement reports The Case Of The Mysterious Sprinkler Head BreakageReversing Myopia: It's IMPOSSIBLEYour Glasses: Dangerous Childhood Subconscious Programming? See how these fit the wider evidence: Can myopia be reversed? What the evidence actually says.
Pros & Cons: Contact Lenses For Computer Use
We talk about this every once in a while. Should you use contact lenses while in front of the computer? There's no one answer to work for everybody.If you are a low myope, and spend all day in front of a computer, it's a no-brainer. Glasses, not contact lenses. The whole benefit of contact lenses, having a wider field of view, completely unused during close-up. The other reason to wear contact lenses, to have more freedom in various not-glasses-friendly situations, also not applicable.So then all [...]
Ocular Dominance: Your Dominant Eye & Haphazard Lens Prescriptions
Jakey needs a deep breath before starting on topics like ocular dominance.We're friendly to mainstream optometry. Om, shanti, ommm. Natural myopia control, it's just another way to look at myopia. There's nothing wrong with cranking that phoropter like it's the wheel at the titanic, giving everybody every last ounce of mad crazy sharpness. Nothing wrong with it at all. It's just ... old school. The ideals from days long past. Hey if you're into that, old school, that's totally cool. Crank it.Om. Shanti. Deep breaths.(If [...]
