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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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What To Do When You First Get Some Blurry Distance Vision
So you never wore glasses and lately, things start to look a little fuzzy.What do you do? Rush to the optometrist, get some fancy glasses or fancier contact lenses? Not so fast! Read this before you go roll up the wheelchair for your eyeballs.And I do figure this type of article is going to get less and less relevant, as the myopia catches us earlier and earlier in life (I have a dozen clients with five year olds with glasses [...]
Behind The Scenes: #endmyopia
Here we are! All moved in and most bugs squashed, ready to take on the world.Now it's off to see how to best reach the huge contingent of myopia sufferers, without upsetting the fragile sensibilities of the ophthalmology establishment, nor waking too many Internet trolls. I sense challenging times ahead.But over 80% of children in Taiwan are myopic. Times headlines speak of over 90% of Asian school children at large suffering from myopia. Something has to be done.Recently there was a [...]