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Although not everyone has vision problems, the majority of people do. Children are starting at such a young age using cell phones, playing with video games, using the computer and watching a lot of television. This type of technology can actually do more harm than good. I will share in this article how to naturally maintain your vision.
When most people start having vision problems, there first instinct is to get eyeglasses. Although they will definitely help you see things more clearly, they will not cure your vision. Over time your prescriptions will continue to get stronger until one day you wake up and you have cataracts. When that happens, their only alternative is eye surgery but that still will not cure your vision.
How can you naturally maintain your vision? If you do a lot of texting on your cell phone, play a lot of video games, work on the computer daily and watch a good amount of television, there are some things you can do throughout your day that will definitely help.
When you stare at anything for a long period of time, you are straining your eyes. In order for your eyes to remain healthy, they need constant movement. Although that is not entirely possible every single minute of the day, you can help by taking more frequent breaks. Do not stare at things for long periods of time. If you are working on the computer, take a break by just looking around the room every once in a while. If watching television, look around the room while the commercials are on. If texting on the cell phone, while you are waiting for a reply, once again just look around.
By implementing these simple little things into your day will definitely help naturally maintain your vision. I personally work on the computer a lot so I set a timer every hour to make sure that I do not get carried away with my work and not give myself the much needed break that my eyes need.
Getting plenty of rest each night is also a must for your vision. They do get very tired throughout the day which is why they may get red or even burn sometimes.
Just try to be more aware that you are concentrating way too hard on whatever it is you are doing and just give yourself a little break every so often. This is the best way to naturally maintain your vision.
Are you sick and tired of wearing glasses, fed up with wearing contacts or scared to death of the thought of Lasik surgery? Learn how to naturally maintain your vision by visiting www.eyesightvisioncure.com.
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Many patients have asked a relatively simple question, “why was LASIK invented at all”? A decade ago very few people even knew the word LASIK, and while the word had become a part of our lexicon, the real reason that doctors choose to do LASIK escapes many peoples understanding. We were one of the first handful of doctors in the United States, and the first to realize the potential benefits of LASIK for vision correction almost fifteen years ago. Since that time there are now over 10,000 LASIK doctors in the USA alone and a multiple of this number worldwide. The reasons for the success of LASIK are numerous but in a sentence it provides rapid, accurate, and relatively painless restoration of vision to a wide range of refractive errors. Patients are able to see like they were wearing contact lenses without all of the bother, cost, inconvenience, and risks of contacts. In general they have better visual function than provided with glasses in the same way that contact lenses are better than glasses for so many reasons.
This simple question is profound, because it touches on an invention that has changed the way in which the world views vision correction and has helped millions of people worldwide to see better without the aid of glasses or contact lenses.
For perhaps millions of years, much of human kind has suffered with vision problems. There are the serious eye diseases such as cataracts, glaucoma and a myriad of other problems. Beyond this is the simple fact that many people are unable to see clearly at distance, near, or both. This is from the imperfections of the eyeball as a camera and this was greatly helped over that last few hundred years by glasses and more recently in the last 50 years by contact lenses. Although with the advent of lasers, there was a hope that such technology could improve vision, limitations in the nature of the eye had limited laser application to vision correction until the advent of LASIK .
LASIK is a hybrid procedure, that is it involves two steps which together are able to improve vision very rapidly and predictably for patients with ametropias. The first step is to create a potential space for the laser to correct the vision and the second is to do the correction itself. In the early days of LASIK about 15-20 years ago , this potential space was made with a device called a microkeratome. This is a miniature shaver which can peel a thin layer of outer tissue from the cornea which remains attached at the edge or “hinge”. Another laser, the excimer laser then focuses on the freshly cut surface, and removes tissue in a programmed manner to reshape the eye. Finally, the flap is replaced which assumes the contour of the newly shaped cornea beneath it. It is the transfer of the shape combined with covering the treated area with living tissue that makes LASIK so remarkable. Healing occurs at the edge or seam of the flap and the eye barely knows that anything has occurred beneath. The vision is rapidly restored with no significant healing response, which is key to the success of LASIK.
Newer lasers, called femtosecond lasers, are able to make the flap layer more precisely without a cutting blade but fundamentally perform the same function. This all laser approach is a safer and slightly more effective way of restoring vision by LASIK. The current state of the art in LASIK is to use advanced femtosecond lasers such as our Visumax to make a flap, and a wavefront optimized excimer laser like our Zeiss or our Allegretto laser(s) to reshape the cornea. With this type of treatment we have a very low complication rate, and excellent vision results in most cases.
We become complacent very quickly with new technologies but it is a truly amazing and revolutionary accomplishment that in a procedure that lasts only a few minutes , a persons vision can be corrected from a lifetime of limitations.
Dr. Dishler is the first doctor to perform LASIK in Colorado, the first doctor to offer blade free LASIK in Colorado, and is a consultant, lecturer, and inventor. He is involved with several FDA studies and answers questions related to laser vision correction online.
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Cataracts are a serious medical problem that will affect four out of ten adults over the age of 60, and almost 70% of adults over the age of 75. Cataracts, a clouding of the lens in the eye, can result in impaired vision and even blindness.
The PRELEX Procedure
One of the surgical procedures used to treat cataracts is Presbyopic Lens Exchange, or PRELEX. In this procedure, a small incision is made in the eye, the diseased lens is removed, and an artificial, intra-ocular lens (IOL) is replaced.
Why PRELEX for Cataracts?
Along with cataracts, many adults, as they age, begin suffering from what is known as presbyopia, a condition that prohibits the ability to focus on close objects. The advantages of the PRELEX procedure for cataracts are that the procedure can fix two problems with one procedure. Also, the PRELEX procedure has these added benefits:
- Elimination of any chance for future cataracts
- Procedure can be performed on patients’ with corneas too thin for LASIK
- Recovery of unaided distance vision
- Recovery of unaided near vision
Further, the PRELEX procedure, in fixing the cataract and the presbyopia conditions, can severely limit or fully eliminate the need for glasses or contact lenses.
The PRELEX Experts
Cataracts can be debilitating, but you do not have to live with them. Dr. Khanna and his team at the Khanna Institute of LASIK and Refractive Surgery are experts in performing the PRELEX procedure and can remove your cataracts while reducing or even eliminating your need for glasses or contacts.
If you or a loved one suffers from cataracts, please visit the website of the Khanna Institute of LASIK and Refractive Surgery for a free vision consultation.
If you or a loved one suffers from cataracts, please visit the website of the Khanna Institute of LASIK and Refractive Surgery for a free vision consultation.
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Many would consider their sight to be their most important sense, so it is logical to look after your vision by paying regular visits to the optometrist. But another part of maintaining good vision is to know when something is wrong, and to seek treatment for it. Here are some of the most common eye conditions, their symptoms, and the vision correction methods that can help remedy them.
Two of the most common vision-related problems are near and far-sightedness. Near sightedness (also called myopia) is when you can see things clearer up close, while things far away appear blurry. Far sightedness (also called hyperopia) is the opposite.
While many people will simply opt to get glasses or contact lenses for these conditions, countless others are choosing to get LASIK eye surgery instead. LASIK eye surgery is a refractive surgery that treats both near and far sightedness, as well as astigmatism – an optical condition where the optics of the eye can’t focus a point object into a sharp focused image on the retina. The result of astigmatism is blurred vision.
Other common vision problems include age-related conditions such as cataracts and glaucoma. Cataracts can form at any age, but are a common consequence of getting older. It is a clouding of part of the eye (the lens) which causes vision to become blurred or dim, as light cannot pass through the clouded lens to the back of the eye. Early stages of cataracts can be treated with glasses or contact lenses, but the only thing that will take cataracts away is cataract surgery – one of the most common surgical procedures for the eye.
Glaucoma, which characterises a group of eye conditions where the optic nerve is damaged – is associated with raised pressure in the eye. The result is a reduction in the field of vision, as well as blurry vision. Glaucoma is most common in people over the age of 40, and can be treated easily and effectively if detected early. The most common forms of treatment for glaucoma are eye drops to relieve pressure in the eye, as well as surgery.
Another common vision problem is presbyopia. Presbyopia is the loss of focusing ability, and is another common result of age. In younger people, the lens is more flexible and the eye has a greater range of focus from a far to near distance. However, with age, the lens loses flexibility and the ability to focus on objects nearby. Glasses and contact lenses are the most common form of treatment for Presbyopia.
While you should be in tune with your eyesight and any problems that may arise, it’s also important that you go to see your optometrist for regular eye checkups to detect any problems with your eyes quickly. Your optometrist can also recommend a particular course of action to best treat any problems with your vision; anything from LASIK eye surgery to eye drops depending on the condition and severity.
The sooner you can catch certain conditions, the sooner – and more effectively – you can treat them. So, take care of your vision – it’s one of the most important senses you have!
Adam Singleton writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.
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