is it safe to do eye excercises after lasik surgery?!

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Ya, you just gotta do exercises and eventually your eyes will be perfect. Usually takes a week or 2, but its perfect. I got mine done for $299 per eye and its the best deal around. If anyone is interested in getting Lasik, go here for a free evaluation. Check it out

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Hi Uma S

Most people with normal vision dont have to think about going to the gym to exercise their eye muscles. Thats true of course. Having to do that would be seen as silly by most people. So we have muscles in and around our eye but for a minority these muscles are unfortunately not in working order
(An optometrist will be ignorant of this fact)

Ok so you might want to learn what the 3 main eye-muscles are.

They consist of the:
Extraocular
Ciliary
Obicularis Oculi

Video explaining Extraocular muscles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1rPgc3B…

Websites explaining the ciliary muscle:
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/len…
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi…

Website explaining the orbicularis oculi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbicularis…

The orbicularis oculi has a few functions and covers quite a big area. It goes all the way around the eye, spreads as far as the eyebrows and down to the cheeks. It allows people to close their eyes and to blink.

To see if your orbicularis is in good condition check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub1LYoDiA…

To check if you have any bad vision habits:
http://www.natural-vision.co.uk/how.htm


So as you can see, eye exercising is something that occurs naturally for everyone. It should happen without us even knowing about it.
Unfortunately some people who have bad eyesight or who wear glasses unfortunately fall behind others and this allows their eyemuscles to reach a poor condition.

The other red herring (often thrown in by an eye doctor) is the suggestion the"eye-exercises" that are promoted online (and in books) are gimmicks to fool people into buying into an idea that fundamentally doesn't work.

YES if someone already has perfect eyesight and has eye-muscles in perfect condition these exercises WOULD be a complete waste of time (for that person)
There are also one of two sites that charge a little money for information/advice thats already accessable from existing sources. The site in question might just use a remarketing ploy to promote its material as something unique. (Maybe misleading but hardly a criminal offense)

Personally I dont earn any money from talking about eyesight. I dont want a job selling anything. I had bad eyesight and i like reading about the truth online and in books rather than some weird replacement for it.
Also i feel fortunate to have a little knowledge on the subject and knowing both sides of an arguement, If i can help someone who was in my position previously then perhaps they can then feel better about themselves and get their life back on track

(by the way this morning i noticed the vision in one of my eyes (when i was walking outside) was worse than the other. When i looked at some trees it was obvious that i couldn't see any yellow or red colour with my right eye. I didn't really care so much. it looked funny actually
But I remembered if the extraocular muscles cant work accurately then the picture we see cannot link up properly with the fovea. The fovea is only part of our retina that can pick up colours. So i tried some "eye exercises" for just 10 seconds to see if that would make a difference. Guess what?. After doing that i could see red and yellows in that eye just as well as the other. Seems like i can learn new stuff all the time)

One of the side effects of LASIK surgery is a decrease in Contrast Sensitivity. Meaning things can look dimmer and you might not be able to tell a difference in colors that look alike but are not. No eye exercise will fix it.

4th year optometry student...graduating in 7 months!!!