| Customers should be wary of eye exercise | | | | Method charged about $350 retail for each kit. Its |
| programs such as the widespread See Clearly | | | | website claimed that the vision plan was a safe |
| Method, who claimed that they can eliminate or | | | | and healthy alternative to eyeglasses and |
| reduce your need for eyewear. Because of these | | | | contacts. But later the website disclaimed that the |
| invalidated claims, all sales of See Clearly Method | | | | product’s vision improvement effect will vary |
| kits were prohibited and the company was | | | | among different people. However, aftermath |
| punished to pay $200,000 as a compensation to | | | | investigation and details showed that the See |
| consumers who had bought the kits. The recently | | | | Clearly Method had no solid scientific basis. |
| published Power Vision Program by American | | | | While deluxe version of See Clearly Method |
| Vision Institute is another eye exercise program | | | | contained a CD-ROM, its basic versions only |
| that indicates natural vision improvement. Actually, | | | | included some videotapes and audiotapes. The |
| researches have showed that these simple | | | | program told people to do 30 minutes of |
| exercises can not help you throw away your | | | | exercises every day, in order to strengthen and |
| glasses for vision errors such as myopia. | | | | enhance muscle flexibility that manages the |
| Focusing errors such as farsightedness and | | | | eye’s focusing power. The program also |
| nearsightedness involve the irregular ways that | | | | provided some booster techniques and the |
| your eyes refract lights, which are caused by too | | | | component of “Visualization”. The vision |
| short and too long eyeballs respectively. And | | | | improvement and glasses elimination from See |
| presbyopia is caused because that aging lens | | | | Clearly Method had never been supported by any |
| starts to lose elasticity and can not adjust focus | | | | clinical study. The practice conducted by the |
| at different distances. Eye exercises just provide | | | | program’s creators was deliberately |
| up-and-down and back-and-forth movements for | | | | controlled. |
| your lens, which have no relation with the above | | | | In fact, eye exercise programs occupy an |
| eye anatomy. These exercises will never change | | | | obscure space between medical science and fold |
| your eyeball shape, your cornea and irregular | | | | remedy, which are dismissed by most |
| surface. They also can not restore your lens to | | | | optometrists and ophthalmologists. There are still |
| its youthful elasticity. | | | | other companies that sell similar eye training |
| Eye exercises help your eyes function and adapt | | | | programs, some of which even claim to be |
| and certain vision therapy can be used to avoid | | | | FDA-approved. |
| amblyopia on children. However, no evidence | | | | People who want to buy self-improvement eye |
| shows that these exercises can alter the | | | | exercise programs should be careful about their |
| eye’s basic anatomy, which determines | | | | vision claims. Professional advices from ECPs are |
| people’s refractive errors. And no evidence | | | | always helpful. The best way is to keep your |
| has been found that visual training improves vision | | | | expectations in check and your money in your |
| loss by macular degeneration, glaucoma and so on. | | | | wallet. |
| The ever prevailing program of See Clearly | | | | |