The abnormal of the myopic eye
Laser surgery may ruin eyes
Eye doctors and their flawed education
BBC Laser Surgery Article
Nearsightedness can be prevented
The abnormal of the myopic eye
Our eyes were never designed by evolution for the way we use them today. In order for the eye to focus on close objects, the ciliary muscle tightens and causes the lens of the eye to thicken. Constant focusing on close objects causes a spasm of the ciliary muscle, a constant pulling on the sclera and a related pressure increase in the vitreous, or large chamber of the eye. As the sclera stretches and becomes larger, the body creates more liquid in the vitreous to fill the increased volume. This is the body's simple way of refining the vision by reducing the normal farsightedness of the infant.Laser surgery may ruin eyes
A top doctor has warned that up to a million people are at risk of disintegrating eyeballs after 'miracle' laser surgery for short sight. Richard Branson and Friends star Courtney Cox are among those who have had this increasingly popular treatment for vision defects.Eye doctors and their flawed education
The well-intended advice is occasionally given that more headway could be made in convincing doctors to change their ways by toning down the criticism and using reason instead. Sadly, their greed and self-imposed ignorance are stronger than any reasoning. Change will not come through reasoning with doctors. It will come when people learn how they are being manipulated and demand an end to it. When tobacco companies use every trick they can to get people to smoke, in spite of the untold misery that smoking has caused, a person still has a choice of smoking or not smoking. But what choice does a child have when the eye doctor prescribes minus lenses and nothing is said about choices? There is no warning on the glasses stating, "This product may destroy your vision."BBC Laser Surgery Article
New scientific research from Germany shows that seven out of ten patients are left with defective vision after laser surgery.Nearsightedness can be prevented
Yet the eye doctors seem to ignore anything that has to do with prevention. It is not considered profitable. There is no financial incentive to prevent myopia. When has your eye doctor ever mentioned the body of research that supports the environmental cause of myopia? Shouldn't you be made aware of this? Could it be that there is a better living to be made in selling eye exams, glasses, contact lenses and "vision training" to repeat customers at regular intervals as myopia develops? There is also money to be made by the surgeons who treat the disease and detached retinas that develop later.
Nearsightedness can be prevented
Yet the eye doctors seem to ignore anything that has to do with prevention. It is not considered profitable. There is no financial incentive to prevent myopia. When has your eye doctor ever mentioned the body of research that supports the environmental cause of myopia? Shouldn't you be made aware of this? Could it be that there is a better living to be made in selling eye exams, glasses, contact lenses and "vision training" to repeat customers at regular intervals as myopia develops? There is also money to be made by the surgeons who treat the disease and detached retinas that develop later.
