Questions & Answers. You have questions. And Jake has answers, especially if they haven’t been covered in one of the other sections of the blog / free guides.
Many of the topics here originate from your e-mails, or from Quora, or threads in our Facebook group, or even YouTube comments on occasion. Natural myopia control is a wide ranging and complex subject, and this might be the section to find answers to some of your questions. Browse and discover!
What’s First? Equalize Or Reduce Spherical
Pro topic. Best used after some BackTo20/20 or otherwise advanced experience. There is a question that will be floating around this sphere, perhaps many years from now, after the whole idea of holistic myopia control becomes more mainstream. That question will be, whether to equalize or reduce your spherical correction first, when you start on the road to improving your eyesight using lenses to create positive stimulus. You can't do everything at once, you have to either reduce spherical, or [...]
Pro Tip: 1.5 Diopter Improved Night Time Vision
Winter is coming. It's going to be dark early and cold to go outside (unless you wisely live in the tropics), and you won't be making nearly as much progress you might the rest of the year. But where progress appears to be temporarily slowed, you can still do a lot to get a head start on spring, now. In BackTo20/20 we talk a lot about individual strategies to get stimulus and improve your focus. Here's one of the strategies [...]
Did Osteopathy Fix My 10-Year Migraine?
Massively off-topic today, on the curious (maybe) effects of osteopathy. I've been having neck pain, off and on, for the past ten years. We're talking about the sort of neck pain that turns into a tension headache, where you find yourself laying on the ground, unable to find any position that isn't Chinese-water-torture painful. Two days, three days, of just hoping for a lesser headache. It's not my style to complain (aside from my sister - and now you, nobody [...]
The Hong Kong Myopia Epidemic
Today the podium goes over to MH Edwards, PhD, FCOptom, CSY Lam, PhD, MCOptom, FAAO, who writes: The prevalence of myopia amongst the Chinese has escalated in recent decades. While this refractive error was previously a little more than an inconvenience and a source of unwanted expense to the affected individuals, it is now sufficiently prevalent to warrant national concern. Edward continues, pointing out some of the problems with this growing myopia prevalence: It should be pointed out here that [...]
IKEA For Free & Accurate Eye Exams?
I'm cheating today. It's almost 11PM and my very first chance to get in front of any sort of computer. The Internet is painfully slow. I just managed to get through forum questions and e-mails, and I'm exhausted. So here's the short post today, since it's "daily blog" and all. If you're part of the Twitter army, you maybe already saw this one. Originally mentioned by a student, there's a very easy and useful way to get your hands on [...]
Blurred Eyesight: Did You Lock Up Your Ciliary Muscle?
The #1 cause of slow or no improvements is unchecked ciliary lockup. Or maybe #1 is not enough stimulus. Either way, these are the two high level main issues to troubleshoot if you're not making expected progress. It's almost always either not enough (or the right sort of) stimulus, or you're locking up your focusing muscle with close-up. It's very easy to check the latter, and you should always be doing this (I still do it, every day, myself). In [...]
