Natural Vision Improvement Losing one's sight can be distressing. In the start, if as standard, you begin to lose your sight at around 40 years of age, it is the first sign of approaching old age, but later as it deteriorates further, people begin to worry whether they will go blind. Well, if you require spectacles at 40 then yes, it is the first sign of approaching old age, but there are not so many individuals who go totally blind now due to advancements in information about the eyes and how to remedy impairments. There is nothing you can do about the former difficulty, but at least two avenues you can take to resolving the latter. Most individuals 'blindly' follow their opticians advice and purchase glasses or contact lenses. This is the best option for the optician and the cheapest option for the client in the short term. It is good for the optician because you will almost certainly require new glasses each two years and contact wearers have to keep purchasing contact lenses as well. It is good for the customer because the outlay is small if you do not go for designer frames like Gucci or Levi. In the long term, though the customer pays out many, many times more than if a different method had been chosen. One of these other courses of action is Lasik surgery. This is costly up front, but can last for 20 years although you might still need glasses for either long or short distances. Most individuals have their long distance sight corrected and never ever have a problem with it again, although they do still require reading specs. A third option, which you might like to attempt instead of or in conjunction with any of the above is known as Natural Vision Improvement. It has to be said that the technique of Natural Vision Improvement has more detractors than supporters, but some individuals treat it as a form of yoga for the eyes which cannot do any harm. The point here though is that if you want to attempt Natural Vision Improvement, you should still go to an optician regularly so that they can check for eye diseases like glaucoma and macular degeneration, which Natural Vision Improvement cannot hope to, nor does it claim to, cure. Advocates of Natural Vision Improvement say that contemporary apparatus like TV screens and monitors and even living in a city where long distance sight is almost unnecessary because it is blocked by buildings a few yards away, have trained us to 'see badly'. They say that we have to relearn how to see in the correct manner. They even go as far as to say that glasses and contact lenses might be part of the difficulty. Here they mean that as your eyes become used to corrective lenses, they come to rely on them and so get weaker. Therefore, the next time your vision is measured, you will need stronger spectacles.
The Natural Vision Improvement philosophy says to use the weakest lenses that you can and make your eyes work harder. In this way, they insist, the next time you go for a check up, you can get weaker lenses not more powerful ones until eventually you do not require glasses at all. Some opticians and optometrists will work with you if you want to try this path, but you may have to look about for one. One vital point around the Natural Vision Improvement course of action is that if your impaired eyesight could create a risk to yourself and others, you should wear standard, full-strength specs whilst carrying out those activities (like driving). Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of topics, and is now concerned with the macular degeneration test. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Macular Degenerative Disease