Guest guest Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 does anyone knows any info about curing myopia?(short sightdness that is -7?) sara mom to 3 kiddos work at home united <http://workathomeunited.com/sara> http://workathomeunited.com/sara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 ---not specifically for this condition but i do know there are certain head and neck exercises which can help with vision obvuiosly nutrition plays a part and water intake I am sending you this information so that you may evaluate it, properly and share this information with your people. Helpful vision information on prevention and alleviation For research purposes only Maintaining and improving vision naturally From my own observations a certain degree of eye massage/stretching has been most beneficial to helping with vision .i Have noticed much faster focusing and a feeling of having the eyes much freer . Usually I start massage around the eyes/eyebrows and over the closed eyes using the three fingers this done for about 2-3 mins using a firm touch. Next using both hands I stretch the skin by almost parting it across the eyes , attempt to stretch the muscles all around the eyes. Pushing quite firmly push one eyebrow up and with the other hand push the other one down. Then without any hands close one eye and keep the other open aim to keep the open eye wide open, then circle the open eye 3 times one way then 3 times the other keeping the other eye closed all the time. Then do the other eye. Then we work the eyebrows keeping one eye closed raise the opposite eyebrow and hold it there for a few seconds really stretch it, then reverse ie do the other eye .This can be most amusing done in the mirror and gives a good impression of one eyed jack out of treasure island. Then we work the eyes more, really stretch the eyes open as far as they will go and hold for a few seconds then squint tightly together do this for about 3 times .With both eyes look left without moving your head and hold for 5 seconds the look right for 5 seconds .All the way up for 5 seconds and down for 5 seconds .Finnish off with a nice palm rub gently over both eyes . Simple Eye-exercises by Dr Williams: 1. Place the palms of your hands against the orbits of your eye [the palms shouldn't touch the eyeball, only the bony area around it]. Apply enough pressure so that you have total darkness in both eyes. Keep your eyes closed and covered. Look up as far as you can. Now look straight ahead. Then look as far as you can to the right and go back to the center. Now look straight down as far as you can and back to the center. Now go all the way to the left and back to the center. 2. Hold a pencil straight out in front of you at arm's length. Focus both eyes on the tip of the pencil. Slowly bring the pencil in toward your face, keeping your eyes focused on the tip until it touches your nose. Now slowly move the pencil back to arm's length, still focusing on the tip. Try to keep the tip in focus at all times. As your eye muscles become stronger, this exercise will get easier. 3. Hold a pencil at arm's length and look straight ahead at all times. Do not move your head during this exercise. Slowly move the pencil upward until you can no longer see the point with your peripheral vision. Now move it slowly back down to center--keep focusing-- and all the way to the right until you can no longer see the point, and back to the center. Then go all the way down until you no longer see the point, bring it back up to the center and do the same thing going to the left and back to the center. Also edgar cayce said that the neck and had exercises would be beneficial Rolling the head around slowly one way then the other Looking left and hold and right and hold Up and down slowly Side to side slowly From the Orion project http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/seventhmoon/orion/ The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service Eye correction is seriously short sighted 19:00 20 November 02 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition Millions of people worldwide may have worse eyesight and even be more likely to go blind because of a long-held but misguided idea about how to correct short-sightedness. A study intended to confirm the theory has instead been stopped because the children's eyesight was getting worse, New Scientist has learned. Decline in eyesight For decades, many optometrists have been routinely " undercorrecting " short-sightedness, or myopia, when prescribing glasses or contact lenses. " What was done was done with the best of intentions, " says optometrist Daniel O'Leary of Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge, England. Indeed, his study of 94 children in Malaysia sought to prove the value of undercorrection. Instead, it showed the opposite. While the number of children involved was small, amazingly it is the largest and most rigorous study to date. " The study was meant to run for three years but after two years, when we found out we were making the children's eyes worse, we had to stop it prematurely, " O'Leary says. " Short-sighted people need to know it's not the thing to do. " The results have been hailed by some optometrists as key evidence that could change the way children are treated. " It's the strongest evidence I've seen in this field, " says Paul Adler, a spokesman for Britain's College of Optometrists. " It could change prescribing practice worldwide. " Epidemic proportions There is still much debate about the causes of myopia, but it is certainly common in children who spend a lot of time reading or doing close work. It has reached epidemic proportions in Far Eastern countries such as Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, where 90 per cent of young people are short-sighted, compared with 15 to 30 per cent in Europe and the US. Short-sighted theory In short-sighted people, the muscles in the eye cannot flatten the lens enough to focus light from distant objects directly on the retina. Instead, the point of focus is in front of the retina, creating a blurred image (see graphic). Glasses can fully correct this problem, moving the focal point back onto the retina. But when people wearing normal glasses look at close objects, the focus point is usually behind the retina. The theory is that to try to " refind " this focal point for near objects, their eyeballs actually elongate. Not only does this make distance vision even worse, it also increases the risk of serious eye diseases such as retinal detachment, glaucoma and retinopathy, all of which can lead to blindness. According to this theory, undercorrection should help stop the eyeball elongating. When they undercorrect, optometrists prescribe a lens that focuses light from distant objects just in front of the retina, rather than exactly on the retina. Children and chicks Yet the only proof that it works comes from a study of just 33 Japanese children in 1965, and from studies on chicks in the 1990s. And these studies have since been attacked as lacking rigour or relevance. In their trial, O'Leary and his colleagues at the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, undercorrected the sight of half the children and fully corrected the rest. Then they measured the length of the eyeball with ultrasound every six months. To their surprise, they found that the eyeball elongates faster when vision is undercorrected. As a result, the team reports in a paper that will appear in Vision Research, on average the vision of the 47 children with undercorrected myopia deteriorated more rapidly than those given full correction (see graph). Yet full correction has long been out of fashion. " I had to go back to 1938 to find someone in the literature saying a full correction should be made, " O'Leary says. The explanation for his results, O'Leary speculates, is that the eye cannot tell whether the focal point is in front of the retina or behind it. It just grows backwards if the image is out of focus - which means that not wearing glasses might be even worse than undercorrection. " Any blurred vision will make myopia worse, " he says. Demolishing assumptions Related Stories Short-sightedness may be tied to refined diet 5 April 2002 Eyeball squeezing could correct sight 21 March 2002 Severed optical nerves can be made to grow again 5 December 2001 For more related stories search the print edition Archive Weblinks Optometry, Anglia Polytechnic University British College of Optometrists Eye development Myopia Vision Research Adler thinks this is a key conclusion that demolishes previous assumptions and could help optometrists develop better treatments in the future. Other researchers, however, think further studies are needed to prove that any kind of blurred vision makes myopia worse. Undercorrection could be bad for adults as well, O'Leary thinks, although any decline is likely to be slower than in children. His findings suggest that generations of people worldwide could have somewhat worse eyesight because of the popularity of undercorrection. The reason is that vision research is not a priority in Europe and the US, O'Leary says. " Studies have been few and far between. It's hard to get funding for myopia research in the West. " O'Leary's message to doctors, patients and parents is unequivocal. " No glasses is the worst option of all, " he says. " But don't undercorrect. Go for full correction. " Andy Coghlan and Michael Le Page The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service Short-sightedness may be tied to refined diet 11:40 05 April 02 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition The food children eat might play as big a role as books and computer screens when it comes to causing short-sightedness. Diets high in refined starches such as breads and cereals increase insulin levels. This affects the development of the eyeball, making it abnormally long and causing short-sightedness, suggests a team led by Loren Cordain, an evolutionary biologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and Jennie Brand Miller, a nutrition scientist at the University of Sydney. The theory could help explain the dramatic increase in myopia in developed countries over the past 200 years. It now affects 30 per cent of people of European descent, for example. " The rate of starch digestion is faster with modern processed breads and cereals, " says Brand Miller. In response to this rapid digestion, the pancreas pumps out more insulin. High insulin is known to lead to a fall in levels of insulin-like binding protein-3, the team points out. That could disturb the delicate choreography that normally coordinates eyeball lengthening and lens growth. And if the eyeball grows too long, the lens can no longer flatten itself enough to focus a sharp image on the retina, they suggest. " Overnight epidemics " " It's a very surprising idea, " says James Mertz, a biochemist at the New England College of Optometry in Boston. But it's plausible, says Bill Stell of the University of Calgary in Canada. " It wouldn't surprise me at all. Those of us who work with local growth factors within the eye would have no problem with that - in fact we would expect it. " Metz's institution is now planning studies in animals. But there is already evidence to support the theory. While fewer than one per cent of the Inuit and Pacific islanders had myopia early in the last century, these rates have since skyrocketed to as high as 50 per cent. These " overnight epidemics " have usually been blamed on the increase in reading following the sudden advent of literacy and compulsory schooling in these societies. Related Stories Eyeball squeezing could correct sight 21 March 2002 Severed optical nerves can be made to grow again 5 December 2001 A lens implant that changes focus could make cataract patients' eyesight almost as good as new 27 June 2001 For more related stories search the print edition Archive Weblinks Biochemistry, University of Sydney Eye development New England College of Optometry Acta Opthalmologica Scandinavica But while reading may play a role, it does not explain why the incidence of myopia has remained low in societies that have adopted Western lifestyles but not Western diets, says Cordain. " In the islands of Vanuatu they have eight hours of compulsory schooling a day, " he says, " yet the rate of myopia in these children is only two per cent. " The difference is that Vanuatuans eat fish, yam and coconut rather than white bread and cereals. The theory is also consistent with observations that people are more likely to develop myopia if they are overweight or have adult-onset diabetes, both of which involve elevated insulin levels. The progression of myopia has also been shown to be slower in children whose protein consumption is increased. Journal reference: Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica (vol 80, p 125) phil In , " Sara " <nurturinghome wrote: > > does anyone knows any info about curing myopia?(short sightdness that is > -7?) > > > > > > > > > > > sara mom to 3 kiddos > work at home united <http://workathomeunited.com/sara> > http://workathomeunited.com/sara > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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