General Vision Health Topics. Mostly we talk about myopia here, which we don’t consider to be an illness. While on that subject we do often end up crossing over into related issues that you may encounter, while working to reduce your myopia.
Everything from dry eyes, to the dangers of certain antibiotics, to risks of retinal detachment and glaucoma and lattice degeneration, you’ll find all the vision health related topics in this category.
Robin’s -4.00 to -2.75: Improving Your Eyesight For Free
Jake Steiner here, your temporary blog host. Everything is here in Alex' blog for the motivated reader, to improve their vision. You don't need to spend money on the paid course, you can easily dig through the forum and blog, and impressively enough, it really is all here. Props to Alex to spend a lifetime providing myopia rehab advice, retiring, and then building an amazing resource like this. More impressive even, if you ever met Alex. This guy has never [...]
Inge’s Mild Myopia: The Questionable Value Of A -2.00 Prescription
Overprescription, with any sort of serious medication, is generally something most medical practices avoid - for all the obvious reasons. This is unfortunately not the case in optometry. In optometry, prescriptions are made for the maximum possible degree of correction. It is certainly bad news for your long term vision health. Overprescription Is The Optometry StandardThere is a reason for this, which is that our eyes are not a static system. Our eyes are very complex, ready to adapt to many [...]
Transient Axial Length Change – Mainstream Ophthalmologists Don’t Understand Myopia
Following, a guest post by Jake Steiner, a brilliant practitioner of functional and holistic ophthalmology. Leave a comment if you would like more guest posts of this nature.---Technology doesn't necessarily make us any smarter. Going to see ophthalmologists, when I travel to a new country, is a bit of a strange hobby of mine. It's always fascinating to see how money (in a relative sense of wealth of the country), culture (self reliance vs. co-dependence), and the tentacles of Big Optometry™ [...]
The American Academy Of Optometry: Is Vision Therapy New Age Bunk?
I have been going through some of my favorite pieces of research for a friend, and an interesting book project. While I've been discouraged to talk about that, I'd like to bring you some of the choices pieces here, to the blog. It's hard to choose since so many of them are equally compelling and disturbing. So in no particular order, take a look at this (titled "Vision Therapy to Reduce Abnormal Nearwork Induced Transient Myopia"; by Ciuffreda, Kenneth J. OD, PhD, [...]
Neck Pain, Migraines, Computer Work, and Close-Up Vision
There is a significant long term cost to the type of symptom-only treatment of many aspects of Western medicine. Just today I spent some time making it through a client e-mail, which included a laundry list of secondary symptoms that took several pages to describe. If you imagine your myopia as a knot in the string of your health, you are working on untying that knot through rehab. Sometimes, when other aspects of health are ignored, and there is a [...]
Accuracy In Question: Snellen Eye Chart vs. The Autorefractor
Shaun from Singapore writes: Hi this is Shaun from Singapore. I've been religiously practising active focusing and pulling for 6 months now... Recently, I paid a visit to the optometrist and had my eyes checked. From the eye machine, my eyes had improve from -5.50 OD and -6.00 OS to -5.00 OD to -5.50 OS. However, I've been wearing a -4.00 OD and -4.50 OS glasses for pulling focus(basically for daily wear) and the puzzling thing is, I can see the [...]