Vision Therapy is designed specifically for the individual, a supervised treatment program to correct visual-motor and/or perceptual-cognitive deficiencies. Vision Therapy sessions include procedures designed to enhance the brain’s ability to control:
- eye alignment,
- eye tracking and eye teaming,
- eye focusing abilities,
- eye movements, and/or
- visual processing
Visual-motor skills and endurance are developed through the use of specialized computer and optical devices, including therapeutic lenses, prisms, and filters. During the final stages of therapy, the patient’s newly acquired visual skills are reinforced and made automatic through repetition and by integration with motor and cognitive skills.
With our present day way of living in which the eyes in many cases are often stressed out, eye problems is now becoming common than ever before. In our time where computers are regularly utilized, and where leisure time is put in mostly on television together with use of cellphones along with other elements can definitely harm our eyes. And not to mention certain accidents and some other vision disorders.
Most people are aware that exercising is good for the body since it ensures you have a healthy body. Some people just neglect the eyes thinking that they don’t need to be exercised, but that’s the wrong mentality since eyesight can be restored by doing daily exercises to keep them fit as well and disease-free. Some exercises have been scientifically proven to be good for improving eyesight and also preventing eye problems, hence reducing dependence on spectacles.
Here are some of the best types of eye exercise.
1. Palming is the easiest eye exercise. While doing this exercise all you have to do is close your eyes and place your palm over them. While you palm, visualize the most relaxing scenario for you. In that scenario imagine that you don’t need to wear glasses and you can see everything clearly.
This will help your brain visualize the goal that it is trying to achieve and creates a “reality” for it. For example, some studies have shown visualizations can strengthen muscles and improve skills without actual practice.
2. Do the following for 3-5 minutes every day. Close your eyes and look at the sun through the closed eyes. Still facing the sun, rotate your head from side to side, slowly, as far as you can. As a result, sunlight will reach your peripheral vision. Enjoy the warmth of the sun on your eyes! The bonus: improved blood circulation to your neck and head.
3 ‘Word exercise’ is another eye exercise that will improve your focus. All it requires you to do is to look at a phrase of any text which isn’t shorter than four alphabets in length, and then concentrate on the full phrase in order to catch the most appropriate image that it produces in your brain. Once more and the word becomes blurred when you try to gaze and firmly focus on it.
4. This one does double-duty for your eyes and your back. Stand with feet apart a shoulder-width. Leave your arms hanging loose at your sides. Look out of a window. Shift your body weight to your right foot. Swing your upper body to the right while letting your left heel step off the floor. Notice your surroundings as you swing. A tree or a car seen through the window or in the distance will seem to move opposite to the direction of your swing. Now switch and repeat.
5. Do the following at least twice a day for 5 to 15 minutes. Rub your hands together to warm them up. Alternatively, shake them or hold them over a heat vent. Then close your eyes and cover them with your hands. Do not touch your eyelids with any part of your hands, do not rest your cheekbones on your hands. Put the weight of your head on your hands on the forehead only. Then look into the darkness. Can you see spots, ribbons or zaps of light? Wait until it’s completely dark. No need to hurry.
6.Up, down and from side to side: Imagine a clock in front of you and move your eyes from 12 to 6 o’clock, from 3 to 9 o’clock etc. Next rotate the eye around the clock in clockwise and anti-clockwise directions. Then close your eyes.
Health Benefits of Eye Exercises
For those who have to work in front of a computer, eyestrain and tension will dissipate as you continue with the exercises outlined. Weak or dry eyes, mascular degeneration, and a host of other sight issues will be impacted positively by these exercises. Remember that eye health depends largely on the strength of the eye muscles. Thus it is crucial that you keep the eye muscles active and well-toned. The ophthalmic nerves will begin to receive enriched blood supply from your body, which will clear and enhance your vision. Eye strengthening exercises will help you have better vision.