Eye Exercises

[pueppi]

I know there are places out there that can help you rebuild your eye strength. I am looking for as many links and as much good information that our collective body of knowledge has.

This is the best I have located so far. http://www.rebuildyourvision.com/try_an_exercise

Does anyone have any links to multiple eye exercises?

[maestra]

Don't know of any exercises available online, off the top of my head, though I do sort of recall an article in one of the massage magazines years ago written by Mier Schneider that told about him and how through eye exercises and massage techniques he regained his eyesight. You can read about him here: http://www.self-healing.org/

[StressSolutions]

An advanced MFR practioner would have some techniques for eyeballs. They "unwind" the eyeball, and do some different stuff. They just hinted at it...a teaser, so to speak. Good luck!

You could check with a chiropractor...one such doc here says that everything can be cured with adjustments 3xweek for the rest of your life! Funny thing, though, no one stays with him that long.

:-) a good memory is priceless, huh? LOL

[askahealer]

I had a book based on the bates method and remember doing some exercises that were helping my vision but I didn't keep doing them....

Lack of discipline, I guess.

One of them involved looking up and back to center, right and back to center, down and back to center, left and back to center, while keeping the head stationery.

Also widening the eyes for about 2 seconds then squinching them tight, but still open, for same time.

Palming is good too, crossing the palms in such a way that almost all light is blocked out. I used to palm for about 10 minutes after I got into bed and it really helped with eyestrain.

You were asking for vision links so here's another

I was just also thinking of some glasses I ordered, oh, probably 20 years ago. They sort of looked like a grill, with tiny little square holes across the lens.....believe it or not, when I wore those, I could see the tv better. They were supposed to help improve vision if you wore them all the time but, like the eye exercises, I lost track of wearing them and then I lost them altogether.

I wonder if that was just a gimmick or if they really might have worked if I'd kept at it. What the heck were those called? Anybody else remember those?

[riversinger]

You may want to check the website of a behavorial opthamologist we have used. (He's in the Phila. PA region)
www.gallopintovision.com We have been going to see him
not only for standard eyeglasses, but in particular for our daughter. She is now 10 and has one eye which is not as strong visually as it should be. Also when one eye is not
performing as well as the other the learning process in children can be affected. It can also affect physical balance, having more trips & falls, etc.

Besides prescribing eyeglasses, he often recommends doing what is called visual therapy.

Some of this is relatively simple. Take a piece of Scotch
magic tape and fold it over itself so you have a piece small enough to cover the eyeglass lens of the good eye. Then spend 5 minutes or so forcing the other eye to read or do work at finding objects (such as in the Where's Waldo books) He also has my daughter taking print from any magazine and coloring in whichever letters have an opening in them with a pencil. So she has to look for opg, etc and start coloring them in...

Hope this helps you out. Take care & good luck.