{"id":12002,"date":"2024-06-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=12002"},"modified":"2024-05-31T03:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:45:45","slug":"eye-exercises-to-improve-sight-is-there-any-science-behind-them-an-ophthalmologist-explains-why-you-shouldnt-buy-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/eye-exercises-to-improve-sight-is-there-any-science-behind-them-an-ophthalmologist-explains-why-you-shouldnt-buy-the-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye exercises to improve sight \u2013 is there any science behind them? An ophthalmologist explains why you shouldn\u2019t buy the\u00a0hype"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n For people tired of wearing glasses, the claims can be enticing.\n Valeria Blanc\/E+ via Getty Images<\/a><\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\n Benjamin Botsford<\/a>, UMass Chan Medical School<\/a><\/em><\/span>\n\n

You may have seen advertisements claiming to eliminate the need for eyeglasses through vision therapy or vision training \u2013 basically, eye exercises. <\/p>\n\n

These exercises include putting pressure on or palming the eye; eye movement exercises; or straining to read by using the wrong prescription glasses to \u201ctrain\u201d the eyes. <\/p>\n\n

As a professor of ophthalmology \u2013 and as an eye doctor<\/a> who has seen thousands of patients \u2013 I can tell you that no study to date shows strong evidence that these exercises eliminate the need for glasses or offer any long-term significant benefits<\/a>. The science simply isn\u2019t there<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

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