Is it possible to reduce eye power by eye exercise?

Question

to remove spectacles completely is there any eye exercise?

Answer 1

On the whole, no.

Ocasionally, spectacularly, yes.

I have more than once shifted someone four lines on a letter chart in under ten minutes.

This happens when the eye is in "accommodative spasm".  Basically, stuck in reading mode!  This gives the appearance of the eye being much more short-sighted than it actually is.

Sometimes that muscle cramp has been present for months, and the eyes are fairly solidly habituated to that mode.

Eye exercises (eyedrops may be required, too) can uncramp those muscles giving the visual effect of a sudden reduction in shortsight.  But it was never structural shortsight in the first place.  The length of the eyeball cannot be reduced by exercise.

The error that creeps in is where success with people with ciliary spasm gains credibility for the claim that such techniques can produce the effect on anyone.

That has never achieved mainstream acceptance, though there remain vocal advocates.

The original Bates method is ancient and starts with outdated anatomy.

Answer 2

I know you can do eye exercises to slightly improve your vision (At least, that's what the doctor told me), but I can't imagine any exercise completely correcting vision. I have an astygmitism, which means that my cornea isn't completely round, which causes blurred vision. No amount of focusing exercises is going to change the shape of my eye, unfortunately.

Answer 3

Been There

Paid $300 for the "exercises"

Didn't work

Save your $$$$$ for contacts

I now work for an optical department, and no, there isn't anything that will help reduce the powers.  Lasik surgery will help for a while, but it is aging that creeps up on you and you will eventually need glasses anyways later on in life.

Answer 4

Well, it depends on who you ask. There is a method of controversial excersises, called the Bates Method, which is based on the assumption that the cillary muscle (a muscle that you use to move your eye) reshapes the eye contantly, thus causing myopia and hyperopia. This means that the perscription is only good the moment it's perscribed. The method tells you to use several different excersises to strengthen the cillary muscle. Most scientists think this method is complete bullshit, and I personally agree with them. Basically, the only way you can remove your perscription is laser surgery, and unlike what one of the other answerers have said, you won't need glasses if the surgery will go smoothly. You will, of course, need reading glasses, but that's a normal part of aging. Right now, there's nothing anyone can do to change that.

Answer 5

It can help yes...try doing some eye exercise + yoga as well.........

My father got great results with yoga.....

Answer 6

What I have heard is that yes you can, your eye is a muscle and with a lot of exercise it should get better, but it also depends on what you have wrong with your eyes. Most of the exercises are simple and can be looked up on the internet.