Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses by Steven M. Beresford, David W. Muris, Merril J. Allen, Francis A. Young Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses
Book Review: important info, highly recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is informative, interesting, and to the point. It is easy to read with no fluff. Hence the reader can grasp basic concepts and start doing the eye improving methods immediately.
Vision therapy is not just eye exercises. It includes correct eyesight habits. Once you understand how the eye was intended to be used, all of the info in the book will make sense. Furthermore "good eyesight" is much more than just the ability to see near and far. The book will educate you about other traits that are important.
I only wish that the author had included some benchmark technique for measuring one's eye condition improvement.
My own improvement was revealed when I lost my glasses and had to get a new pair. The optomitrist remarked that my prescription had improved, and asked me if I had been doing anything different. I had been practicing vision therapy for almost a year. That is the first time in my life that my prescription improved.
Also my night vision has improved, I can wear my glasses much less than before, and I have been able to diffuse that blurry/dizzy effect when spending lots of time on the computer or reading books for long periods of time.
I highly recommend this book for those who want to take an active role in improving their eye condition.
Book Review: Good basic understanding of how to improve eyesight
Summary: 4 Stars
Although I just got the book, the concepts are easy to understand. Book Review: Great book
Summary: 5 Stars
The techniques worked for me. If you're serious and not lazy, go for it!Book Review: Haven't read it, but the method works!
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my lifetime goals is to become a Navy SEAL, and that particular group requires very healthy vision. If not, you would either get laser eye surgery, or straight out not go in. Well, I have a chiropractor who believes in nothing but natural remedies.
"Something wrong with your knee? Okay, I'll rub your neck." It will be fixed, perfectly.
Well, one day I was having eye strain, probably due to too much computer gaming, so I told him about that. He pressed on some points around my eye to relax my muscles and after that, when I got back into my car, BOOM! My glasses were wayyy overpowered, so I took them off, and I noticed I was seeing perfectly for about 200yds (About 20/25)
Well, after that I researched about Natural Methods to correct vision, and I stubled upon this book. I have not bought it yet, but I plan to. Most of the exercises described can be found in the book, or online. After about 1 month of devotion to this technique, my vision is permanently from 20/90 to 20/50, with periods of 20/20, depending on how relaxed I can get my eyes.
I think there's enough evidence that this method works, and the only reason doctors remain skeptical about it is probably because if this method was taught nationally, thousands of contacts, lenses, and frame making companies will go bankrupt.
Book Review: Great book - It works! But there's a catch...
Summary: 5 Stars
... Actually, there are two catches:
1) You need the discipline to do the vision therapy (VT) exercises religiously every day, or at least a few times a week.
2) You need an optometrist who will agree to support you and give you progressively undercorrected lenses. (This, of course, takes some $, although optometrists who believe in this technique will probably work with you and offer discounts).
I bought this book from an alternative health expo in my city last summer and played around with some of the exercises, but I knew that, although my myopia might stabilize, I wouldn't see any improvement unless I found an optometrist willing to give me undercorrected lenses. I finally found one (to my knowledge he's the only behavioral optometrist in my area), using the following site: http://www.babousa.org/doctors/default.asp
I went to my first appointment with him five weeks ago, and he said that my eyes had not changed from my lenses at the time of -5.75 and -5.50 (I believe the exercises up to that point helped to stabilize me). He agreed to undercorrect me to -5.25 in both eyes, if anything to relieve nearpoint stress even if I didn't do VT, and I committed to doing the VT exercises out of this book on my own. I did the exercises for 15 to 30 minutes every evening, and noticed a dramatic improvement in the first two weeks, after which I stabilized. I know this because the book instructs you to measure your "blur zone," the point for myopes at which things become blurry, from the bridge of your nose every week to see your progress. I started out at 5-1/2 inches. After two weeks, I was at 6-3/4 inches - an improvement of 1-1/4 inches! My follow-up appointment wasn't for another three weeks after that, and during that time, I didn't see any further improvement in blur zone measurement, although I continued doing the exercises. This past Thursday, I went back to my optometrist, and he said that I was seeing 20-20 through my new lenses, and thought I might even be a little over-corrected now. It seems the reason I stopped improving after two weeks was that I had already reached the best I could with the lenses I had. He has undercorrected me again, this time more aggressively, to -4.5. I have a follow-up with him again in about a month.
I don't know how far I can get with this, and I know that eventually I will reach a "plateau." However, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to continue improving over the long term if I stick with the exercises. Maybe it will be a year, maybe two, but I'm determined enough to continue doing them. Even if I stop improving, the exercises, as the book states, are just plain good for the health of your eyes, whether you intend to improve your vision or not.
I highly recommend this book and its exercises to anyone who is interested and serious about improving their vision naturally. Here's one final tip: I think all of the exercises helped me immensely, but the single one that I could tell was working as I was doing it was the "blur zoning." Placing a detailed object, such as a simple picture, *just inside* my blur zone, even moving it very slowly just into my clear zone, and then back over the "threshold" into my blur zone, and gently looking at it and allowing my eyes to adapt to it helped the most, I think. This process takes "baby steps," so if you choose to do this, stick with it and be patient. Good luck!