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Bassmansam

Bassmansam

Bassmansam

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For all fellow myopic ocuk'ers

Has anyone tried active focus?


Active focus is a core principle of myopia rehab according to the #endmyopia Method. It stipulates that you need stimulus to improve your eyesight.

#endmyopia is based on habit changes rather than exercise routines. To that end, active focus is introduced as a way to challenge the eye to get clear focus from a slightly blurred image. The eye is capable of resolving a small degree of blur when challenged, which provides the positive stimulus necessary for long term vision improvement.

I am not sure what to think but may give it a go, nothing to lose right? People claim to have reduced their myopia from various levels of prescription. I am -5 and -7 so I am curious to see if i gain any improvement.
 
There was a massive study in East Asian, either Korean or Japanese or both into providing glasses with a prescription slightly poorer than the person needed, it was designed to produce this exact response.
To try to make the eye do that little bit of correction itself, in order to slow deterioration, and help make things better.
At the early retesting stage, they swiftly stopped the trial, as they were finding massive issues in the test group, eyesight was plummeting, and become vastly worse than placebo group who has the correct prescription.

I'm thinking active focus or end myopia or whatever might need some published literature behind it, and vast amounts before I'd consider it.
 
Given that IIRC eyesight problems are often caused by the shape of the eye, and that changes naturally over time I would say it's bumf.

Your eyes might get better over time but it'll be down to the shape changing in your favour, not some sort of exercise.
 
Can't find any academic studies or papers to back this technique up.
I was an eye doctor for 6 months and the one time I heard someone ask a consultant about it, they just rolled their eyes.
 
Bassmansam said:
Plenty of people claim to have improved their eyesight using this method. Im not totally onboard but its certainly interesting.
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You reckon the information is trustworthy that staring a blurry image corrected someones eyeballs.

Work this out then: why does your vision not autocorrect when it starts getting blurry in the first place.

:eek:
 
Hotwired said:
You reckon the information is trustworthy that staring a blurry image corrected someones eyeballs.

Work this out then: why does your vision not autocorrect when it starts getting blurry in the first place.

:eek:
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Because controlling the ciliary muscle is what the active focus method try's to achieve. If you don't follow the instructions you won't gain control of the muscle and thus improve your sight. Thats the theory anyway, i started yesterday and will stick it out for a while. Nothing to lose..
 
Bassmansam said:
For all fellow myopic ocuk'ers

Has anyone tried active focus?


Active focus is a core principle of myopia rehab according to the #endmyopia Method. It stipulates that you need stimulus to improve your eyesight.

#endmyopia is based on habit changes rather than exercise routines. To that end, active focus is introduced as a way to challenge the eye to get clear focus from a slightly blurred image. The eye is capable of resolving a small degree of blur when challenged, which provides the positive stimulus necessary for long term vision improvement.

I am not sure what to think but may give it a go, nothing to lose right? People claim to have reduced their myopia from various levels of prescription. I am -5 and -7 so I am curious to see if i gain any improvement.
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This seems short sighted.
 
It's all very well doing bench presses with your ciliary muscle, but as you age the lens hardens, becomes less elastic so the muscle has to do more work to get the same focus.
 
Bassmansam said:
Because controlling the ciliary muscle is what the active focus method try's to achieve. If you don't follow the instructions you won't gain control of the muscle and thus improve your sight. Thats the theory anyway, i started yesterday and will stick it out for a while. Nothing to lose..
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Except short- and long-sightedness are not caused by problems with the cilliary muscle, they are caused by a physical deforamation of the eyeball. (And presbyopia is caused by sclerosis of the lens.) The lens is doing a perfect job of focussing on where the retina should be, not where is is. This technique cannot possibly work. As Hotwired pointed out, if it did then no-one would ever get bad vision in the first place.
 
Meridian said:
Except short- and long-sightedness are not caused by problems with the cilliary muscle, they are caused by a physical deforamation of the eyeball. (And presbyopia is caused by sclerosis of the lens.) The lens is doing a perfect job of focussing on where the retina should be, not where is is. This technique cannot possibly work. As Hotwired pointed out, if it did then no-one would ever get bad vision in the first place.
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And what causes elongation of the eye?
 
This is stupid. It won’t work, especially with you being -5 and -7! Do you think you’re going to train yourself to overcome such a significant deformation of your eye?
 
pioneer2000 said:
This is stupid. It won’t work, especially with you being -5 and -7! Do you think you’re going to train yourself to overcome such a significant deformation of your eye?
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I was as sceptical as you but reading forum/fb posts where people with similar prescriptions have improved 1-2 diopters has got me curious.
 
pioneer2000 said:
Even if that were true, what difference would it make? You’d still need a form of correction (glasses or contacts).
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1) Thinner lenses
2) Negates the risk that high myopia brings ( retinal detachment ect)

I'm still not totally convinced, but I have nothing to lose from trying these eye exercises a couple times of day.
 
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