Here’s Dodgy-Town. A whole category on questionable myopia therapies, ideas, snake oil sales, and various shortsighted treatments that warrant a closer look (and probably some derision by a certain indisputably wise and considerate eye guru).
Whether it’s Atropine drops (poison!) being advocated by “doctors” for your kid’s eyes, or Ortho-K to temporarily flatten (and possibly permanently damage) your cornea, or using subconscious sales tricks to get you to buy glasses, this category has it all. You’ll see it all, you’ll marvel and wonder how you may have missed out on all the ways you could be getting screwed. Enjoy!
WARNING: “Investor Owned” Optometry Practices
Steve, who is a long time participant and active contributor in the forum, posts "The Dark Side of the vision industry" in the forum:No, I’m not talking about Star Wars, but I’m sure Jake will find an appropriate image to convey this post. Counting on you, Jake!So, we have learned much about the clinical side of optometry and ophthalmology offices and how most only care about the “old timey” pseudoscience that is furthering the prevalence of myopia to epidemic proportions. [...]
Fixing Astigmatism: Should You Do Laser, Or Go Natural?
From Ophthalmology Times:Lake Villa, IL—Use of a proprietary femtosecond laser system (LENSAR Laser System, LENSAR) is making astigmatism correction easy, efficient, and more accurate, according to Mitchell A. Jackson, MDA software upgrade introduced in 2015 (Streamline) enables wireless transmission of preoperative topography data and an infrared image of the undilated eye to the laser. Intraoperatively, iris registration automatically adjusts for cyclorotation, eliminating the need to mark the cornea.Arcuate incision planning using the nomogram the surgeon programmed into the laser is [...]
Visionworks Optometrist Calls Us A Hoax
If you found this site by searching for help with your eyesight, you're in good company. Most everybody who visits here did it the same way. Welcome, to you. ;)It's less word of mouth, because most people don't really care about health issues that can be remedied with a quick and easy fix (glasses, FTW). It's less advertising, since your darling host of-this-show is a bit phobic of large crowds, and low barriers of entry. It's less referral type traffic, [...]
Neurosurgeon And Also A Completely Lunatic
It's Sunday. Let's start it off with this juicy quote:Anything with excessive blue light spikes increases the color temperature of the light source. This means contacts, sunglasses, and glasses are additive to this effect because they cut UV sources to the retina. These behaviors combined with these specific types of bulbs are extinguishing our biologic light in our cells. Some days the blog just writes itself.What did you think after reading that? Did you arch your eyebrows, cup your chin, and [...]
Was The Bates Method Right All Along?
Bates Method time! Palming, gazing, eye rolling times, just ahead. This site has hosted various fun posts on the subject of Bates Method in the past (like the Bates Method time machine and a slightly more level headed Bates Method explainer). It's worth bringing Bates up every so often, since on a daily basis thousands and thousands of people go online, Google vision improvement related keywords, and find Bates. Bates is the low hanging fruit for bro-science types (or rather, for superfood [...]
Has It Gone Too Far?
Bad Jake!Much like a graffiti artist defacing corporate art, you will find @endmyopia's brush on more and more outlets where people might go to get real answers on eyesight health (title image, obviously photoshop). Whenever you sell a bad bill of goods to a large enough group of people, sooner or later somebody is going to ask questions. I can't tell you why exactly, but it makes me personally happy to be this particular graffiti artist. Maybe it's the anti-corporate [...]