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Many issues with eye sight that result from the eyes inability to focus can be either improved or fixed with exercise. This instructable improves muscle tone in the eye but will not assist in problems caused by cataracts or other issues that block the light passing into your eye.
This is a simple exercise and is important to do if you are finding your eyes losing function when working at a computer for extended periods of time.
You will require:
a pen
something you can see that is more than 6 metres away
If you need to wear glasses to focus, wear them while doing this exercise. Your eye will do more work if it is able to get a clear focus and doing the work is what strengthens the muscles.
If your eyesight is too poor to focus on a distant object, use an object as far away as you can still focus on.
Time: 30 seconds or so. At least once per day. Preferably every hour while doing computer work.
This is a simple exercise and is important to do if you are finding your eyes losing function when working at a computer for extended periods of time.
You will require:
a pen
something you can see that is more than 6 metres away
If you need to wear glasses to focus, wear them while doing this exercise. Your eye will do more work if it is able to get a clear focus and doing the work is what strengthens the muscles.
If your eyesight is too poor to focus on a distant object, use an object as far away as you can still focus on.
Time: 30 seconds or so. At least once per day. Preferably every hour while doing computer work.
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Hold a pen in one hand so that the tip of the pen is facing up towards the ceiling.
Cover one eye with your hand and look at something level with your eye and as far away as possible. Preferably at least 6 metres.
Raise the pen in your hand until the tip of the pen blocks what you are looking at..
Focus on the very tip of the pen now.
Move the pen, still pointing up to the ceiling, closer towards your eye until it is too close to focus on.
Move it back away from your eye until it comes into focus again.
The distance the pen is from your eye now, is the distance to use for the exercise. Keep the pen in this position.
Cover one eye with your hand and look at something level with your eye and as far away as possible. Preferably at least 6 metres.
Raise the pen in your hand until the tip of the pen blocks what you are looking at..
Focus on the very tip of the pen now.
Move the pen, still pointing up to the ceiling, closer towards your eye until it is too close to focus on.
Move it back away from your eye until it comes into focus again.
The distance the pen is from your eye now, is the distance to use for the exercise. Keep the pen in this position.
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thnks for help me
If you perform some research, you will find that myopia naturally decreases as you age, without any intervention at all.
(And why do certain kinds of people automatically assume that anything produced by "industry" is bad?)
Thanks for linking to that interesting article. I am not sure why you interpreted that article as saying the exercises have no effect when there are a number of references in the article to scientific methods finding positive results from the variety of processes being researched.
Because the article does not specifically reference any one technique I am not sure if the successes it mentions relate to this exercise or to others.
I am also interested in the apparent subjective improvements that are not supported by refractive tests. Especially about learning to interpret what we see better rather than actually improving eye function.
If you are aware of other related articles please link them in these comments.
To others trying to determine if this exercise is being helpful, please try and use repeatable tests like reading a particular size news print at a particular distance in the same light.
I know success is great news, but also, if you have been doing these exercises and see no results from it, please post a comment also. That is the only way we will get balanced feed back. Failures to improve will not be taken as negative feed back, but a contribution to our total knowledge on the subject.
I'm not sure we've been reading the same article:
...reported no statistically significant benefits from training...
...an improvement in subjective visual acuity in myopes with no corresponding improvement in objective (i.e. measured by an optician) visual acuity has been reported
There is level I evidence that visual training for control of accommodation has no effect on myopia.
No evidence was found that visual training has any effect on the progression of myopia.
No evidence was found that visual training improves visual function for patients with hyperopia or astigmatism.
No evidence was found that visual training improves vision lost through disease processes such as age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, or diabetic retinopathy.
The only risk attributable to visual training is financial i.e. It's a scam!
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