Vision improvement exercises?

Vision Exercises?

• Has anyone who wears glasses/contacts ever tried any vision exercises to improve sight? I realized that I have lost the ability to focus on objects at long distances (ie, it seems like my eyes are fixed at one focus length). I feel like this may be the reason my eyesight is getting worse (in general from the time I started wearing glasses), so I have been trying some focusing exercises I made up. It seems to have worked somewhat as I am now able to unfocus my eyes on close objects and onto far-away ones, however it is very limited. I've also had a few moments when relaxed where my vision seems noticably better for a couple of seconds. Has anyone tried this type of thing? I know there are programs where you can pay for this--just wondering if anyone has had any luck or can share some advice as to how the eyes work and what I could be doing.

• Answer:

  After much near work your eyes can get essentially locked into that position. That is why it is imporant to take visual breaks when doing lots of work up close or on the computer. It's comparable to if you held your hands in tightly clenched fists for a long period of time. After a while you would have trouble opening back up your hands. It works essentially the same for your eye muscles, they get locked into looking at the close object. Hope this helped!