EyeCare Tips

Vision Therapy

Please, first and foremost, do not confuse Vision Therapy with eye exercise programs you have seen in infomercials on all-night cable stations. Do not confuse in-office, professionally administered Vision Therapy with self-help, self-directed exercise programs you see on lurid internet banners.

Vision care professionals supervise every aspect of Vision Therapy, including scientifically proven training techniques and use of prescription optical appliances.

Assessment, Diagnosis, Consultation, and Prescription

Vision Therapy begins with a comprehensive examination—not just the usual “read the letters on the chart” exam, but a series of sophisticated diagnostic tests designed to assess and evaluate every ocular function. Reviewing test results with patients, vision care professionals discuss Vision Therapy and other treatment options. In these consultations, optometrists may recommend or prescribe therapeutic, corrective, or prism lenses; optical filters, occluders, or eye patches. If an optometrist and patient agree Vision Therapy represents the most appropriate treatment, the optometrist may advise vestibular or balance equipment, timed electronic targeting mechanisms, visual-sensory-motor integration aids, or specialized therapeutic computer programs.

Physical Therapy for Common Visual Complaints

Vision Therapy provides patients with a non-surgical alternative, enabling them to overcome crossed-eyes, double vision, so-called “lazy eye,” and convergence insufficiency.

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Dark Circle

Two common misconceptions about dark circles under your eyes: First, dark circles develop naturally as a result of advancing age. Not true. Children, too, can develop “symmetrical round pigmented areas beneath the eyes”—the official medical description for “the dark circle menace.

” Second and consistent with the old-age myth, dark circles under your eyes automatically signal exhaustion, excessive indulgence of your bad habits, or signs of serious illness. Officially, not impossible, but highly unlikely!

Dark circle facts: Yes, “lifestyle factors” contribute to the dark circle menace: smoking, drinking alcohol, and tossing-back too many caffeinated sodas play their part in formation of dark circles; but so does heredity. The dark circle menace can pass from generation to generation through the genes. More likely, allergies and nasal congestion cause your dark circles to appear.

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Eyebrows

For Fall, 2009, and for the foreseeable future, embrace everybody’s new favorite fashion motto: “Every girl must get lashed!”  Big eyelashes are the “It” look—so much a fashion essential you may request prescription medication for lengthening and thickening your anemic little lashes.

The fashionistas have neglected to tell you, however, without thick and healthy eyebrows to complement those luscious lashes; you will look more than a little out of proportion.

Especially because you won’t glam-up your lashes every day but you do wear your eyebrows wherever you go, you must pay at least as much attention to your brows as you lavish on your fluttery and flirty lashes.

Simply assume that great lashes without proper brows represent the moral equivalent of a teacup without a saucer—major faux pas. What would your mother say?

Carefully Aim for the Goal

Before you begin plucking, tweezing, trimming, waxing, and submitting to lasers, you should understand the objective. Most women—and most men, too—don’t know. More or less according to Nature, and especially according to aestheticians, your eyebrow should start directly above the inner corner of your eye, curving to its peak just beyond the iris’s outer corner. Then, it should taper gently to the end.

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Eye Care

There are many ways through which we can care for our peeps right at home. These are some of the most essential techniques that we must be aware of in order to take care of our eyes. Spending hours in front of the TV or the computer will definitely take a toll in our eyesight. These are eye related problems that can be easily cured and taken care of with practice. There are certain lifestyle changes that are to be implemented that do come with all home remedies. With adequate preventive measures we can always learn to keep healthy eyes through our eyes. The details of home based eye care and eye problem remedies must be practiced in consistency.

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Many a times we get eye infection due to rubbing or an itch starting from a simple problem. These can even infect further due to lack of sleep, strain or even other disease. The infection can always spread further if we rub our eye. Splashing eyes with normal cold water is the first thing to be done in case of any problem. Splashing our eyes with normal clean water every morning and when tired is one of the greatest things that can be done for their benefit and clear vision.

There are also important yogas and eye exercises that can be done to strengthen blood flow to the eyes and the clarity of vision. Everything from blood shot eyes, to strained nerves and cataracts can all be cured through exercises and yoga. The proper relaxation and techniques must be mastered and soon enough the results would be soon! There are different reasons why our eyes become strained the way they do and one of the main causes is all about blocking the circulation which can be cured through the appropriate type of exercises.

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