What Does Active Focus Feel Like?
Active focus is a topic that comes up fairly often in the forum. It's a big ingredient for stimulus, and initially the main challenge in getting acquainted with your eyes ability to focus. Hans asks in the Q&A: I try practicing active focus. Sometimes, I achieve clearing the blur completely until I blink – then, the blur is back again. Only when I stare, I can clear the blur and sometimes, it disappears almost completely. But while doing that, as I have said, I have [...]
Headaches: Why You Don’t Want To “Mix and Match” Prescriptions
You don't want to use any random pair of old glasses you have laying around, to start on a project of using lowered prescriptions. Things may not go perfectly, and you might not like the results!I'm going to use Alex' style for this post, referencing a recent forum post from Shannon.Hi – I am just starting out, and have put my Snellen in my office, so that I can look there every 20 minutes and assess my vision. I check it in the morning. I [...]
Wearing Your Old Glasses: Will It Hurt Your Eyes?
Shannon asks in the forum, whether she can wear her old glasses without hurting her eyes.Old glasses just about always means, a lower prescription. So the question really is, is it bad to wear a lower prescription? Going to the optometrist is a bit like going to a (legal) and fancy drug dealer. You are buying something to hide a problematic symptom. Something that you need more of since the effects of the first dose aren't strong enough anymore. Something that will instantly make you [...]
Sports Therapy: How We Rehabilitate Myopia In Athletes
In my experience athletes have a lower incidence rate of myopia than my desk-bound clients. This isn't so much a surprise considering that close-up is a major contributor to both pseudo myopia and lens-induced stimulus as well.But when an athlete becomes myopic, the impact can be much more traumatic than to most office workers.These guys need razor sharp vision to gauge a ball's trajectory or discern a muscle twitch before the next punch is thrown. To most of us eyesight is a bit of an [...]
Interview: Dr. Steve Gallop, O.D.
As promised yesterday, today we have Dr. Steve Gallop as our guest.Dr. Gallop is a behavioral optometrist in private practice in Pennsylvania, in the USA. Published on numerous occasions in the Journal Of Behavioral Optometry and author of the book "Looking Differently at Nearsightedness and Myopia", Dr. Gallop looks at causality rather than mere symptom treatment.Let's get straight to the interview!Jake: You mention in your video that you went to optometry school in your 30’s, and at that time discovered eyesight problems. In wanting to [...]
Asking Real Questions About Myopia: The Behavioral Optometrist
In my younger years I treated my body like it is invincible. Lifting weights, skiing accidents, and various other activities took their toll, in particular on my rotator cuffs. It got to a point where I no longer had full range of motion in my arms, and was under quite a bit of pain.I went to see my father, a medical doctor. He took a quick look and said immediately: You are going to need surgery. There is no other way.That was something close to 20 [...]