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RE: [OM] contact lenses instead of glasses??

Subject: RE: [OM] contact lenses instead of glasses??
From: "Dirk Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:17:39 EST
>I know a doctor in Cambridge, MA (usa) that does vision therapy - Dr.
>Antonia Orfield. She teaches eye exercises that help improve myopia.
>Most of the exercises are aimed at stimulating and improving 
peripheral
>vision. Myopia is caused by too much point focus. My eyesight
>deteriated the most when working with old digital equipment monitors 
in
>the 80's, and too much computer useage today. She felt laser surgery
>was a mistake because it does not change the behavior that created
>myopia in the first place.
>\\\

yeah, that's exactly correct. I did about 6 months of vision therapy 
and it changed everything. I waited over 25 years to have stereo 
vision. I want to do more therapy to even go beyond what I already 
have. 

It's so interesting to hop onto a web page with a black background and 
red lettering and have the red lettering pop out at you like it's 
floating in space. So much of the fine art paintings depend on the 
three dimensional effects of colors that my training has allowed me to 
appreciate abstract art much more now. 

>Most of the exercises use an eye patch to cover one eye. One exercise
>with the patch on is to walk and balance on a 2x2 board back and 
forth.
>Other exercises involved using prism glasses that shift your
>perspective, again walking the board for balance. Another one used a
>machine that pulsed on different colors of light and you look at it
>with various parts of your peripheral vision. I found initially that 
my
>color vision in the peripheral was missing some colors. This exercise
>helps "wake up" the peripheral vision. I found the exercises were
>working, but I did not put in enough effort to break through the
>initial barrier.
>

My training was mostly on special optical apparatus. He didn't use the 
walking beam technique, though I have heard that another Dr. around 
here does that to great success. 



Be seeing you.


Dirk Wright

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