Comment by chakintosh
1 year ago
Same here. And my ophthalmologist explained to me that the moment you start wearing glasses, your eyes stop making an effort to correct the blur (because the glasses are doing that for them) so the muscles involved in correcting vision become weaker overtime. According to him, the best course of action once myopia begins is to not wear glasses and try to correct it with other techniques.
It's interesting how we scientifically know that sarcopenia occurs after age 50-60 or so, but we assume that somehow the eye-related muscles get weaker rapidly at a very young age itself.
Did he give any hints on what the other techniques are?
Mainly stopping whatever is worsening myopia (pauses from screens and looking at something far away, more daylight) and also incorporating orthoptic rehabilitation.