When you say “clear vision”, also say, glanced at the eye-chart (in bright light) and read 20/30, or
20/25 or 20/20.

The would help use understand your objective success. I know this is asking a lot — but I do it each day.

Current status:
20/20 in the office. At home (Snellen in dark corner) 20/30, and 20/25 When playing tennis: Extremely sharp vision
(subjective — if you wish.) So if that is what you mean, then we both agree, and I agree THAT is subjective.

Refractive STATE, using a $50 trial lens kit? a PROTECTIVE +1/2 diopter.

Jean> Me, I have been trying to put the card that is in my clear zone very close to me and the next card just above my clear zone. The shift from my clear to my blur zone should be quick and I should see the effect when I gaze at the
card outside my clear zone, if there is no effect so I am doing it wrong.

Otis> No, you are doing “right”. But I would also suggest this. Read the card THROUGH your +3 diopter lens. Push away until the card “just blurs”. After several of these “optical push-ups”, then look over the top of the +3′s at the
brighly lit Snellen — and report objectively what you read (line — 1/2 the letters correctly). We trust your competence, so I call this OBJECTIVE.

Jean> The results? From time to time I get clearer vision effortlessly.
Otis> And so do I with the above stated NORMAL variation.
Objective, science best,

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I haven’t got any particular suggestions for webmasters on how to improve their sites. I guess it depends on what audience the sites are aimed at. Your site, I-see.org for example, does a great job at what it’s supposed to do, which is (presumably) being a large library of vision therapy resources, but it is probably not an ideal place to direct newbies to as there are a lot of links and technical articles covering many different aspects of vision therapy. Myopia.org is also a good site, but it is a little confrontational and scary. At the moment, I’m leaning towards directing people to preventmyopia.org, which seems to condense the most relevant information on myopia prevention down to a single page, and also has a newbie-friendly flash animation. I guess I’m just looking for any sites aimed at people with no prior experience of vision therapy or myopia prevention. Any further recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

The Best myopia prevention sites for newbies is a post from: I Dont Need Glasses

(This text is translated into English from the original Finnish exchange)

Finnish Medical Journal’s discussion policy: “Public discussion refers to open discussion about material appearing in this magazine. Its purpose is to give fresh feedback to the editors and to provide our readers with an opportunity for
criticism. The letters will not be published elsewhere without the express consent of the writer. On behalf of the Finnish Medical Journal, the Editors-in chief and Managing Editor will reply to comments sent in as necessary.”

1) This letter was originally sent in February 12th 2009, by three patients of
mine  which I have now read – to COMMENT on Olavi Pärssinen’s review “Pilaako lukeminen silmät?” (Will reading spoil your eyes?) (The Finnish Medical Journal
6/2009):

Ophthalmologist, DM Kaisu Viikari has been speaking for the prevention of myopia for more than thirty years.

As we have personal experiences of getting rid of the minus lenses, we have been actively following the progress of myopia prevention in the world at large.

We are thoroughly familiar with all of Viikari’s three works; for example, in her most recent book “jotta totuus ei unohtuisi” (2004, 2006) she refers to an article that appeared in Duodecim (2003;119:2475) “Likitaittoisuuden esto
kanoilla ja ihmisillä” (Prevention of myopia in hens and humans).

In this article, Professors of Ophthalmology T. Tervo and L. Laatikainen from Helsinki state that slowing down of myopia development with plus lenses, which the article that they were discussing referred to (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2003:44:2818) was not a new idea. These are the very problems that Kaisu Viikari has been concerned about for more than three decades.

This is why we were surprised to find that among the 55 references of Olavi Pärssinen’s review that appeared in the Finnish Medical Journal 6/2009, (Pilaako lukeminen silmät?) he does not mention this Finnish article that essentially
touches on the prevention of myopia.

It is difficult to think of a problem that would have such in-depth consequences for the wellbeing of mankind as increasing myopia – and in a wider sense, accommodation strain – in front of which, however, we do not need to throw our towel in and put our hands up.

Names withheld.

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What we MUST do — if we want a BETTER preventive future, is to identify those selfless persons who will PUSH us to learn how to prevent.

The purpose of i-see is to supply the critical preventive information (both Bates and Prentice) before that first minus is applied an in innocence — begin to wear it ALL THE TIME.

This is why Dr. Bates objected to. This is what I object to. The restraint of scientific information about prevention — and the need, indeed the legal requirement to supply it to you — before you have the first minus placed on your face.

We are all “victims” of this attitude.

Just my second-opinion.

JUDICAL MURDER IN FINNISH MEDICINE is a post from: I Dont Need Glasses

For the past few weeks I have been experimenting with “straining” and”not straining” and one thing I now know for sure, if you’re looking straight ahead, raising either your upper or lower eyelid, or raising your eyebrows, is “straining.” I will go into detail about this later. In fact I think that’s about all you need to know about straining as
far as keeping good vision is concerned.

Well then I wondered if being “strain free” was incompatible with smiling, since, after all, smiling is a kind of contraction of facial muscles, and as I said “everybody knows” that you smile “with your eyes” so then perhaps some eye lid or eyebrow movements were acceptable in the context of a smile.

Well, after much experimentation and mirror-looking and people-watching, I have determined that a smile is nothing more than pulling up your cheeks and widening your mouth, with no other contractions of facial muscles, especially not of the eyes. In fact if you contract your eyelids in the slightest, raising your lower eyelid or raising or lowering your upper eyelid, or moving your eyebrows, you will throw your smile off. Wrinkling the nose and raising the upper lip (“baring teeth”) also results in hideous effects. You will look angry, nervous, “wild”… anything but calm, serene, and happy, which is what we want a smile to express.

On the other hand, no matter how high I rasied my cheeks and no matter how far I widened my mouth, the smile always looked normal — to me, at least, despite the feelings of great tension in my face. But one thing that I did find is that smiling this way made the brightest sunny day completely tolerable to my eyes. It is probably for this reason that a person who always smiles is said to bring “sunshine.”

I searched the internet to see if I could find any corroboration of my idea of the proper way to smile. Searching for “how to smile” and “perfect smile” and “anatomy of smiling” did not turn up anything useful, just articles about whitening or straightening teeth and that old “smile with your eyes” advice which I believe I have now thoroughly debunked.

So relax your eyes, give the world a big smile, and let us know what happens!

How to smile with your eyes — don’t! is a post from: I Dont Need Glasses