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(Potential) Eyesight Poison Pill: Smartphones & Tablets
I remember being in packed auditorium once, not long after the original iPhone had been released. The speaker hadn’t arrived yet. In the row in front of me, I counted five people hunched over their...
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Eye Healthy Hardware Review: Samsung / Google Nexus 10 Tablet
Eye Healthy Review: Google Nexus 10 300dpi screen, the highest of any tablet. How does it affect eye strain? I get a fair bit of e-mail, asking about various pieces of hardware, and their respective...
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Did You Know About Child Friendly Eye Charts?
One of the things I like to emphasize, a lot and frequently, in the Child Myopia program – make it fun. If it’s not fun, the long term benefit is not in our favor. It’s key programming that will...
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You Need Perspective, to Appreciate Vision Improvement Accomplishments
There was an interesting post in the forum, the other day. It deserves note, as it highlights a common challenge with myopia rehabilitation: We tend to loose perspective, on just how much our eyesight...
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What You Missed: The Fourth Focal Plane (Weaning Off Prescriptions)
Most optometrists treat your vision correction as a single focal plane change. You get one pair of glasses, to account for all of your eyesight needs. Which is interesting, since your eyes are...
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Effectively Measuring Your Child’s Myopia
Your optometrist may like to rely on a $50,000 auto refractometer. You can beat the accuracy of that technology, with some lego toys. Once you consider what those tools really do, the need to spend...
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Keep Your Eyes Strong & Glasses-Free: Distance Vision Tricks
Most people don’t think about myopia. If they don’t need glasses, they tend to assume that they are just ‘lucky’. Likewise, those that end up with their first prescription, have no idea that they...
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Buying Glasses: Supporting Local Optic Shops vs. Online Shopping
Once you begin to actively working on improving your vision, prescription lenses become an important part of of your efforts. You will of course want a much lower prescription to use when you are...
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Astigmatism Correction – Doing More Harm Than Good?
The current round of Web Program topics (#52 to #60) discuss the specifics of astigmatism. While there is no one-fits-all answer to the subject of astigmatism correction, there is a set of guidelines...
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What You Should Achieve: The First Month of Myopia Rehab
This is a relevant subject if you are either considering the myopia rehab program, or are currently in the first or second month. The question is: Where should you be, at the end of the first thirty...
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What is Astigmatism Adding to Harmful Prescription Complexity?
We touch on the subject of what astigmatism is adding in prescription complexity, in the Adult Web Myopia Rehab Program (Installment #53, Week 15). This is well past the core program of the web myopia...
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Eyesight Health Insights: Why You Respond Emotionally to High Resolution...
At the Frauenfeld Clinic we’d always been sticklers about the optical quality of any sort of close-up focus displays. TVs, computer screens, being the ever increasing primary driver of myopia...
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Core Concepts of Eye Health: Focal Plane Switching
If you are participating in any of my Vision Improvement Courses offered here, this is a familiar topic to you already: You can’t have healthy vision, if you rely on a single, static focal plane (ie....
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Guest Post: Jake’s Latest Fashion Frame Adventure
Hi, I’m Jake. I’m addicted to fashion frames. Alex invited me to guest post. I started the eyesight recovery journey with a -4.00 prescription, currently down to -2.25 (most of the time). I spend...
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Optical Delusion – You Can See Much Better Than You Think Possible
There is a very powerful factor in medicine, therapy, and medications. One that does not rely on any practice or specific substance. One that no matter what medication you take, makes you feel...
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Hurting Your Eyes: Your Prescription is Too Strong
It’s probably the thing I find myself saying most, in my day-to-day life: ”Your prescription is too strong.” My name could be Alex, your-prescription-is-too-strong, Frauenfeld. This post applies not...
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Should You Use Bi-Focals To Improve Your Vision Health?
There is a whole Installment in the Child Myopia Web Program dedicated to this topic. Bi-focals give you the opportunity to combine near-vision needs and distance-needs into one convenient...
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The Relative Correlation of Astigmatism
For today’s post, an excerpt of the Adult Myopia Rehab Program – Installment #57. It discusses the finer points of how much you can and should reduce your myopia prescription, as your eyesight...
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How Fluorescent Light KILLS Your Vision
The marketing consultant keeps pushing me to add some hyperbole to the titles. He insists that my Austrian sense for civility and understatement is not what you want – so there we have it:...
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Active Focus – Key To Reversing Myopia
We talk about active focus quite a bit, though so far a proper explanation, outside of the Vision Improvement Courses, has the been lacking. Explained in some detail in #11 of the Child Myopia Reversal...
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