eyes starting to fail

[thevoice]

I have noticed my eye sight start to go down hill in last 6 months. I can still read short range and long range but they just feel like they are starting to go down hill. I am booking a eye test next week or as soon as I can. A friend of mine says glasses just make the eye weaker and you can train them again to be good by doing exercises for the eyes as they are a muscle...does anyone have any indeas on this and has anyone ever reversed failing eye sight by alternate methods. /forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[thevoice]

oh when i say failing eye sight..i dont mean i am going blind or anything just not as sharp.

[Son of Shem]

yeah lenses do weaken eyes because you just like give in to the weakness.

I forget the exercises, but ou can look on google for them

[JoE DoN 216]

sorry to hear that dude, ive been blind as a bat and wearing contacts / glasses since the 5th grade... and yes they do continually get worse every year my prescription is stronger then the last..... but its better to wear them then to go out blind.

[nozzle]

I've heard of people going to a chiropractor for this. Evidently there is a nerve that effects eyesight that gets crossed when the alignment in the neck is off. I have friends that have had their eyesight improve after going to the chiro.

Just a suggestion...

[JoeGT]

I'm at -4.75 for my contact prescription.... I am quite blind, but there are people who are must worse than me, haha.

[RaiseDaBar88]

It's expensive, but there are permanent laser vision correction options.

[JTiger]

See an optometrist. They can fill you in on all of your options based on the severity of your sight degredation.

[EarlGrey]

There are exercises that train your eyes in focus and precision. A school-mate of mine is doing some of those exercises and he explained a couple to me, seems logical, strengthens the eye muscles and improves coordination.

I'm sorry I don't have any links or anything. But I'm pretty sure if you ask eye doctors, or search on the web, you'll find helpful articles explaining these exercises.

[rev]

[ QUOTE ]
I'm at -4.75 for my contact prescription.... I am quite blind, but there are people who are must worse than me, haha.

[/ QUOTE ]
I've got you covered, -8.0. My heredity is severly against me. I can't wait to get out of school so I can get lasik /forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[thevoice]

Thanks people,

I have got few exercises to try out so I am going to incorpate eye training into my training spilt lol.

Also I think I will ditch my monitor and get a TFT one that should make things little easier.

Thanks Nozzle for the idea about a chiropractor il read up on it.

[psaturn]

The official abcbodybuilding eye doctor to the rescue !

No. There are NO eye exercises that correct refractive error.

Since this is a site that wants to put away false science, I want to tell you that there was never an exercise that could do away with glasses.

The eye exercises are used to help muscle coordination problems. Like if you have crossed eyes or wall eyed condition called Strabismus or Phorias.

But for refractive errors, that will be glasses or contacts or LASIK or the CL based refractive correction.

Think about this: Refractive errors come about from the combination of too steep corneal curvature or the elongation of the axial length of the eyeball causing myopia or the cornea being too flat or the axial length too short for the hyperopia. This is a physical measurable portion of the eye. There was never an exercise that could change the curvature of the cornea nor shorten or lengthen the eyeball.

However, if you are able to make your pupils (the black opening in the center of your eyes) smaller, you could see better by the pinhole method. But the pupil size change fall under the reflex control, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. The pinhole effect is like a camera box with no lens but uses a small hole in the middle to take a picture. The small hole cuts the blur area.