Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
How to Get Eyes Healthy : The Complete Guide to Effective Eye Exercises for Treating Glaucoma and Lazy Eyes, Improving Vision, Relaxing Eye Muscles., Hardback Book

How to Get Eyes Healthy : The Complete Guide to Effective Eye Exercises for Treating Glaucoma and Lazy Eyes, Improving Vision, Relaxing Eye Muscles. Hardback

Hardback

Item not Available

Description

Eye exercises to improve vision have been around since the 1920s, when maverick ophthalmologist William Horatio Bates, MD, created the bates method, a program of eye exercises.


The bates method has never been shown to effectively improve vision in a significant or long-term way. Furthermore, some of bates' recommended activities, such as "sunning" (exposing your eyes to direct sunlight) and "palming" (covering your closed eyes with your palms), may be harmful to your eyes.


According to the skin cancer foundation, exposing your eyes to direct sunlight frequently - even with your eyes closed, as bates recommend - increases your risk of eyelid sun damage and skin cancers of the eyelid, which account for 5% to 10% of all skin cancers.

When palming, applying pressure directly to your closed eyes may briefly raise the pressure inside your eyes, increasing your risk of glaucoma.


The bates method is used in most modern eye workouts to enhance vision (at least in part).


Personal affirmations are also recommended in specific eye training regimens to help you feel like your vision is improving. For example, you might tell yourself, "every day my vision improves," or "I can see without my glasses."


Refractive defects like nearsightedness, astigmatism, and presbyopia are frequently claimed to be reduced by self-help eye workout programs.


Before you spend your time and money on something that claims to allow you to "throw away your glasses," keep in mind that there is no scientific evidence that it works.


Several popular eye exercise programs, including the see clearly method (which resembled parts of the bates method) that was recently removed from the market for making false claims about their effectiveness, have been removed from the market.


GET THIS BOOK TO LEARN MORE!


Information

Other Formats

Save 28%

£74.95

£53.85

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information