I heard a radio ad today claiming such a thing. They didn’t say what their methods were, but they said to check their website for their video. I couldn’t remember the URL when I got home, so I googled and came up with a few variations on the theme, such as http://www.eyeschool.com/
There are a number of websites with this kind of stuff, and I must say I’m very skeptical. This EyeSchool doesn’t even talk about their methods openly, only saying you can download some sort of demo program. I’m not about to download some potential spyware or trojan or whatever, yet I am still curious about the general concept of improving eyesight, as mine has been rather poor since I was a kid. Anyone here have some further insight [sub]heh, heh[/sub] on this topic?
The ads I’ve been hearing lately are for the See Clearly Method
Here’s a review of it.
And some more
Basically nah, it doesn’t really work. Or at least certainly not as well as they claim.
-Lil
My vision got better spontaneously. For years, I couldn’t pass the exams so I could drive without glasses. I wasn’t even close to being able to pass it. But I forgot my glasses when I took my last exam, and lo and behold, I was able to read the line of little letters easily. They were a little blurry, but I had no trouble telling what they were. Weird.
My wife is getting a PhD in researching this stuff, and she says it is mostly bunkum. There are certain vision problems that can be corrected with exercise – I have a slow near/far gaze adjustment of some sort and I am supposed to do exercises to improve this. (I don’t)
People can convince themselves of subjective improvements in vision (especially with subtle aspects like accomodation). Objective measurements do not seem to bear these improvements out, though. The well-controlled objective measurement studies have yet to really be conducted, though, so any small improvements in vision through these exercises may have gone unnoticed.
The people who claim they can help you see better without glasses (or LASIK) have been around for a long time. Basically, they claim that by doing certain kinds of exercises designed to improve the muscles involved in the human eye, such as the ones which stretch or flatten the lens, you can improve your vision without glasses. It’s an appealing claim, but it’s based on muddle-headed non-science and, bottom line, it doesn’t work. Just look around - do you see opticians going out of business? Do you see a marked absence of people needing specs? File it with cures for baldness (which don’t work, obviously, look around) and those skin creams which women aged 40+ can smear on themselves for a fortnight and they’ll have the same skin they had when they were 21 (no, they won’t - again, just look around).
My wife’s an Optometrist (well in 3 months!) and she’s told me the same as the above posters. I know there’s something called Vision Therapy that she does with kids to improve their accomodation (I think) but you cannot change the curvature of the cornea through exercises. I don’t know why these See Clearly ads haven’t been shut down.
There is an exciting new field called Corneaplasty that is interesting:
They then can re-crosslink the cornea and it will hold this new shape indefinitely.
Ah, the See Clearly Method is exactly what I heard on the radio. That 21 person study really is a far cry from a proper scientific study. Where’s the control group?
There isn’t a control group, that’s why it’s not a rigourous scientific study.
At best, you’d get marginal improvement and maybe reduced eyestrain from some of this. For instance, some of the problem people have with doing work on computers is that they stare fixedly at a screen for hours, without moving. This not only strains the eyes, it affects the neck, back, and other unmoved body parts. If you get up and stretch your body, move around every so often you don’t get that horribly stiff-n-sore feeling from sitting in front of the computer for hours and hours. Likewise, if you look away from the screen, focus at different distances, and move your eyeballs a bit those muscles won’t get so stiff-n-sore either.
As such things go, it’s probably pretty harmless. However, for at least some people the money might be better spent elsewhere. And if you use this sort of thing for eyecare instead of going to an eye doc for regular checkups every couple of years something really serious might be missed.
I don’t mean to be a Buttinsky, but that could be a symptom of hyperglycemia; its effect on capillaries can actually change the shape of the cornea temporarily. Or at least that’s what my optometrist told me when I found out I had diabetes; for a period of a couple of weeks I stopped wearing glasses. My eyes gradually went back to their normal myopia after I got the blood sugar under control.
So you might want to get the ol’ glucose level checked.
I came across a book in a library which claimed that the eye focused, not by the lens changing shape, but by the entire eyeball changing shape; it actually said that the muscles which turn the eyeballs were also responsible for focus, and that exercising those muscles would cure your vision problems and put the eyeglass-mongers out of business. There’s probably a lot of quackery to be found in your local public library.
Sounds like a variant of the so-called Bates method which recommended closing your eyes facing the sun and rolling your head from side to side to bathe the closed eyes in sunlight, among other things.
I went up a hill early morning when the moon was full, killed a female kitten and smeared its blood all over a naked virgin before rubbing the morning dew into my eyes while chanting “Eyes of the eagle”. I’m still as blind as a flying rodent, but boy did I have fun!
Let me guess, you’re about 40 years old. At about age 40 or so, we all start to develop presbyopia. This is caused by the lens of the eye becoming less elastic, so less able to accomodate. It translates to functional farsightedness. If one has been myopic, or nearsighted, for a while, distance vision improves, as the hardening of the lens continues, you too will require reading glasses or longer arms.
Sorry if this depresses anyone. My husband won’t allow me to mention it in his presence.
NO, I’m not 40. As I have to keep explaining in various chat rooms, I am a blonde, 18-year-old virginal cheerleader whose libido is about to do a Chernobyl because the only work I can find is knitting exciting underwear! Why does no one believe me? Oh, if you could see my enormous breasts heaving in indignation at yet another assault upon my veracity, you would be deeply ashamed!
Dogbert: “To save money, the company will no longer provide vision benefits. However, we will be supporting a new, non-surgical vision improvement technique.” Dilbert: “Radial keratonomy?” Dogbert: “Squinting.”
The See Clearly method sounds like squinting to me.
If you did an indepth research for the website, why can’t you also make an indepth research if its legit or not? Actually, i’ve been there before, i have a presbyopia since 15 and was ridiculed by my classmates because of the heavy glasses i’m wearing. Last year, i conduct an indepth research for presbyopia cure and stumbled upon on a website and also made an indepth research and stumbled upon on a video testimonial talking about How To Improve Eyesight Naturally and click on the link, then i got shocked because the website i’m viewing now is 100% legit and non bogus program.
