Eye exercise for Better vision

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What is Eye exercise?

Eye exercise helps to strengthen your muscles around the eyes, helps you to focus, helps to ease eye movements, and stimulates your brain’s vision center. When you practice them and move on to new ones, you will learn how to control your eye muscles and see the way you should.

Benefits of Eye Exercises

These exercises can be helpful for the following conditions:

Nystagmus, which is an eye movement condition
Strabismus ( problems with eye turn)
Amblyopia (lazy eye)
Myopia
visual field defects
Dyslexia
Vergence problems
Ocular motility conditions
Accommodative dysfunction
Asthenopia
Convergence insufficiency(eye teaming)
Visual field deficits following brain injury
Motion sickness
Learning difficulties

How do exercise your eyes?

Here we explain different types of eye exercises that you can do depending on your disease.

Focus change

This exercise works by challenging your focus. This exercise should be done in a sitting position.
Take your index finger a few inches away from your eyes.
Focus on your index finger.
Gently move your finger away from your face, and try to focus on the finger.
Look away for a moment, into the distance.
Focus on your index finger and slowly bring it back toward your eye.
Look away and focus on any object in the distance.
Repeat 3 to 4 times.

Near and far focus

This exercise is also done for focus. This exercise is done in a sitting position.
Hold your thumb about ten inches from your eye and focus on it for fifteen seconds.
Find an object roughly ten to twenty feet away, and focus on it for fifteen seconds.
Return your focus to your thumb.
Repeat 5 to 6 times.

Figure eight

This exercise is also done in a seated position. Pick a point on the ground about ten feet in front of you and focus on it.
Look at an imaginary figure 8 with your eyes.
Try to trace it for thirty seconds, then switch the directions.

20-20-20 rule

Nowadays many people are suffering from eye strain.
Human eyes are not supposed to be glued to a single object for long periods.
If you are working on a computer all day, the 20-20-20 rule may be helpful to prevent digital eye strain.
To implement this rule, every twenty minutes, look at some object twenty feet away for 20 to 30 seconds.

Brock String

For performing a Brock String, tie a loop on both ends of the string.
Fix one loop to a doorknob. Position the three beads.
To do so, you will want to place the distance bead closest to the doorknob.
The middle bead should sit two-five feet from you.
The near bead should be six inches from your nose.
Hold the string taught directly under your nose.
This exercise sequence can be performed with the Brock String to train your eyes in tracking, alignment, and focusing.

Barrel Card

The barrel card trains the eyes to turn in together, or converge, to view a near object.

To begin this exercise, hold the barrel card parallel to your nose so the circles are aligned horizontally, and the largest circles are furthest away from the nose.
Close your eyes. One eye will see red circles, while the other will see green ones.
Adjust as necessary to ensure that each eye sees the same amount of the card and there is no moving.
Now, focus your eyes on the circles furthest away from you. The two images should overlap, producing a single red-green circle.
After five seconds, shift your eyeball to the middle circle.
Finally, move your eyeball to the smallest closest circle.
It is important to note that the circles that you are not focused on will appear double; this is normal.
Once you have completed one cycle, relax your eyes. You should work up to completing 10 cycles, holding for 10 seconds on each of the three circles.

Zooming

This is a great exercise for focusing and strengthening your eye muscles.

To perform this exercise you have to Sit in a comfortable position and stretch out your arm whilst raising your thumb in the hitchhiker’s position.
See on the thumb and now draw it in until the thumb is three inches away from the face. Keep your eyes on the thumb.
Then gently move the thumb and forearm back to the starting position.
Do this exercise several times over a two-minute duration.

Blinking

If you are a computer user, blinking is a great form of exercise for the eyes to decrease eye strain.
We mostly forget to blink when we are staring at computer screens.
The benefits of blinking are it allows you to keep your eyes refreshed and maintain focus for longer.
You have to perform this with your face forward and blink every five seconds for the next two minutes duration.

Flexing

This exercise helps to stretch and strengthen the ocular muscles in the eye.
To perform this exercise your Face should be forward and look straight ahead.
Look over ceilings without moving your head and then look down. Do this ten times.
Next, look at the left without moving your head and then to the right again without moving your head. Do this ten times.

Eye movements

This exercise can help with digital eye strain.

Close your eyes.

Gently move the eyes upward, then downward.
Repeat 3 to 4 times.
Slowly move the eyes to the right, then to the left.
Repeat 3 to 4 times.

Around the World

It is important to stretch your eye muscles to help or prevent presbyopia, which may happen when the elasticity in your eye deteriorates due to the lack of eye movement, making it not easy to focus on objects at varying distances.

To perform this exercise in Sitting in a position or you have to stand in a traffic-free area.
Closed your eyes or leave them open, making sure that your head does not move when conducting the following eye movements.
Look over ceilings and hold for three seconds and then look down and hold for another 3 seconds. If your eyes are still opened, wait till your eyes look at an object before moving on to the next eye exercise.
Look to the right as far as you can and hold for three seconds and then look to the left as far as you can and hold for 3 seconds.
Look to the top left and hold for three seconds and then look to the top right and hold for 3 seconds.
Move your eyeball clockwise 2 times and then counterclockwise 2 times.

Palms for relaxation.

Gently cup your palms over your closed eyes until all the afterimages fade to black, about thirty seconds.
Make sure not to put any pressure on your eyes.

Tips for eye health

There have a lot of things you can add to eye exercise to keep your eyes healthy.
Get a comprehensive dilated eye exam every few years. Get an exam even if you have not noticed problems. Many people do not even realize they can see better with corrective lenses. And many serious eye diseases do not have noticeable symptoms.
Know your family history. Many eye diseases are genetic.
Know your risk. If you are at increased risk for eye problems because you have diabetes or a family history of eye disease, see your eye doctor every 6 months to a year
you have to Wear sunglasses to protect your eyes from damaging UV rays with polarized sunglasses that block out both UVA and UVB light.
Eating a healthy diet full of healthy fats and antioxidants may help to keep our eyes healthy. And, yes, eat those carrots. These foods are a great source of vitamin A. This is important for eye health.
If you need to wear glasses or contact lenses then Wearing corrective lenses will not weaken your eyes.
Quit smoking or never start. Smoking is bad for your overall body, including your eyes.

What is Eye exercise?

Benefits of Eye Exercises