Do eye exercises really help to improve eyesight?

January 8th, 2009
  • Since the cause of loss of 20/20 vision is to do with lathargic eye muscles, wouldnt doing eye exercises make those muscles more active and inturn improve ur eyesight? But a few weeks ago i heard this eye doctor on the TV saying that eye exercises wont do anything but then ive heard alot of ppl online say that they have been doing eye exercises and it has really improved their eyesight, even given them 20/20 vision. sum1 plz tell me the truth.....


  • Simple answer is no. There is no medical evidence that eye "exercises" improve vision. If you want to give somebody a few hundred bucks to tell you to look leftright up down and think thats helping the vision then go ahead.

    Distance vision (ie looking at things far away) doesnt have much to do with lethargic muscles but shape of the front of the eye and length of eye. Presbyopia ( or the loss of ability to read) due to aging is partially due to the internal muscles of the eye losing strength coupled with rigidity of the lens. If exercises could eliminate that aging of the eye then why would people still be using reading glasses?

    THere are certain conditions that can be helped with certain exercises. For example, in convergence insufficiency, people can get tired after reading or near work for a short time. They can do exercises to strengthen the eye muscles that bring the eyes inward/toward the nose so that reading can be done longer ("pencil" push ups).

    HOwever, it doesnt sound like thats what youre trying to achieve. Do what your common sense tells you...


  • dougie is correct. exercises can't correct your acuity.. if you had a problem such as strabismus (cross or wall eye) then exercises/therapy can be helpful in bringing the muscles in your eye (that point it) to where they need to be.


  • You can't exercise the muscles that control the lens, or those of the iris. they are not voluntary muscles. Eye exercises won't improve your vision....sorry.


  • The cause of blurry vision is not "lethargic" or "lazy" eye muscles. The eye muscles only work on internal structures so they are many times stronger then they need to be. So the theory of exercising eye muscles is comletely wrong. Eye exercises(eye pushups, eye aerobics, eye yoga) are a terrible deception that help keep people from natural perfect eyesight.

    When I was young I tried to hit a baseball for school games. I was very bad and I was strained and tense. A friend showed me how to swing at the ball and all of a sudden I was very relaxed, and swinging and hitting were greatly improved.

    Vision is very similar. People with blurry vision have learned how to use their eyes incorrectly. In fact people with blurry vision exert a whole lot more effort and tension than people with natural perfect eyesight. Because artificial corrections don't change the way we use our eyes, our vision gets worse year after year.

    One of my primary goals is to educate people on the differece between completely incorrect eye exercises, relearning to see, and temporary harmful artificial corrections.


  • This really depends on what you are doing the eye exercises for. If you are trying to improve the coordination between your eyes or reduce eyestrain, then exercises really help. I do exercises everyday while using the computer

    I actually tried a vision improvement program online and I did have some noticeable results, but they were not quite the results I wanted. I do not have time to explain it now, but mail me or I'll mail you and I can give you more detail.


  • i don't think so.. maybe eating more carrots will help.







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