Medical: myopia
Astigmatism, farsightedness
English: Myopia, nearsightedness (American), shortshightedness, purblindness
In order to prevent myopia in spite of constant screen work or a lot of reading, there are appropriate exercises to improve myopia. These exercises are used to mobilize the muscles that adapt the lens of the eye to long and near vision from their constant close focus and thus to train them.
This exercise should be done while standing at the window or in another place from which one can see very far and can see trees, mountains, houses or even clouds far away. Then hold your index finger for approx. 20 cm in front of the tip of your nose and fix your finger with your eyes for a few seconds. Then you look for a few seconds at a distant place (tree, cloud, house, mountain, ...). You then switch back and forth a few times between the two eye settings.
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To the muscles around that eye To loosen up, which can also lead to deterioration of vision due to cramping, let your eyes circle slowly for a few seconds. Before repeating the exercise again, there is a short break.
For this exercise, move your eyes as far to the right as possible and then as far as possible to the left. Then the same down and up. Then pause for a moment and then repeat the exercise.
Whenever the sun shines, you should sunlight to look at the eyes. To avoid glare and damage to the eyes, close your eyes while facing the sun.
For this exercise you take a newspaper or a book and pick out a single word that you can only make out vaguely from a certain distance. Now you fix a letter from the selected word until you can see it more clearly. This exercise is aimed at focusing on the Eye muscles trained.
$config[ads_text2] not foundIf you already Glasses wearer you should try to take regular breaks without glasses or other visual aids in order to avoid wasting or cramping of the eye muscles.
Since this is often difficult if you already have severe visual impairment, so-called grid glasses (or also called pinhole glasses) recommended. At this "glasses“There is a plastic with small holes in the places where the glasses normally sit. If you put on these glasses, whether far-sighted or short-sighted, you train the eye muscles and relax them at the same time, while you can also see relatively sharply again. The grid glasses take getting used to, but at the same time very effective for eye training. Drive is not allowed with the glasses than sunglasses however, it is suitable.
For this exercise to improve myopia, imagine looking at an analog watch. You start to look at 12:00 o'clock, then slowly let your eyes wander over the dial to 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., etc. When you get back to 12:00 o'clock, repeat the exercise counterclockwise. In total, the exercise is performed twice (in each direction).
You can do something particularly good with your eyes massage do around the eye. To do this, grasp the bridge of the nose with your thumb and middle finger. At the same time, the index finger is placed directly between the eyebrows and the three fingers involved are then started to move slightly apart and towards each other.
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At a particularly quickly noticeable Relaxation performs this exercise. To do this, place both middle fingers on the middle of the forehead and perform even circular movements while slowly moving the fingers sideways over the temples and down close to the Ears strokes down to the base of the ears.
$config[ads_text2] not foundThe easiest, but no less effective, exercise is the following. For this you yawn extensively and again and again, which makes the whole Eye muscles vigorously tense around the eyes and then relaxed. Yawning also increases it Tear productionwhich makes the eyes wet with liquid.
This eye relaxation exercise will also Palming called. To do this, place one hand slightly arched over the loosely closed eyes and try not to touch the eyelids. For about 2 minutes you should let your thoughts wander completely and try to relax fully, breathe evenly and calmly, before you cover your eyes again and feel the refreshment of palming. This exercise is particularly suitable for relaxing during strenuous work at a computer screen and can be performed while sitting or standing to relieve the back.
If the exercises are carried out regularly and grid glasses are worn from time to time (exercise no. 6), the eyes are given support so that the myopia can improve or at least stagnate.
