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Myopia is not reversible with any known means except surgery. Your results are irrelevant and minor changes could simply be due to choroid thickness changes. Th

Myopia is not reversible with any known means except surgery. Your results are irrelevant and minor changes could simply be due to choroid thickness changes. There are comments like yours on every myopia post where people claim minor changes (1-2 diopters) then are never heard from again.

Aerbil313 3y ago
I'm sorry, simply no. I know myopia is supposed to be not reversible. No one knows how these methods work. But they work, and I'm so happy I'll be able to get rid of my glasses without laser surgery, I can't care less about what science or people currently say.
walterbell 3y ago
Vision therapy (with or without a professional advisor) works for some people, but not others. We don't know why.
- stevebmark 3y ago
  No, it doesn't. Vision therapy is reliably shown to be quackery in studies. Vision therapy doesn't make sense, as there is no known signal to cause ECM breakdown / eye reshaping to reduce axial elongation. Myopia is a terrible thing to discuss, there are so many people guessing and making false claims about things.
  - walterbell 3y ago
    Vision therapy covers a broad range of conditions. > quackery COVD, the professional association has existed for 40 years, https://www.covd.org/page/About_Us https://www.covd.org/page/About_Us The College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) is a non-profit, international membership association of eye care professionals including optometrists, optometry students, and vision therapists. Established in 1970, COVD provides board certification for optometrists and vision therapists who are prepared to offer state-of-the-art services in Behavioral and developmental vision care, Vision therapy, Neuro-optometric rehabilitation. A local search found 40 COVD-certified optometrists.
    - stevebmark 3y ago
      How is this related to my factual statement that "vision therapy to improve myopia is quackery"?
      - walterbell 3y ago
        It's a response to your actual statement: "Vision therapy is reliably shown to be quackery in studies."
aeternum 3y ago
This is definitely not true. Pregnancy for example is known to cure myopia in some cases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519268/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519268/ Furthermore there are contact lenses that temporarily reshape the surface of the eye as well as new glasses, both of which are now either FDA approved or in late-stage trials.
- stevebmark 3y ago
  Read the study you linked to. Jesus.
- donkers 3y ago
  From the study you linked: "A likely explanation of the inverse association between pregnancy and myopia progression is the higher exposure to outdoor activities in pregnant women during their maternal leaves. Time of outdoors physical activity of 6.9 vs 5.2 h per week (P=0.002) in pregnant woman compared to non-pregnant woman." Outdoor activities - the same thing as in the Wired article that's noted to slow down myopia progression. I don't think this study supports what you think it supports. Also myopia didn't reverse, the rate of increase merely slowed down in the pregnant women.

Aerbil313 3y ago

I'm sorry, simply no. I know myopia is supposed to be not reversible. No one knows how these methods work. But they work, and I'm so happy I'll be able to get rid of my glasses without laser surgery, I can't care less about what science or people currently say.

walterbell 3y ago

Vision therapy (with or without a professional advisor) works for some people, but not others. We don't know why.

stevebmark 3y ago
No, it doesn't. Vision therapy is reliably shown to be quackery in studies. Vision therapy doesn't make sense, as there is no known signal to cause ECM breakdown / eye reshaping to reduce axial elongation. Myopia is a terrible thing to discuss, there are so many people guessing and making false claims about things.
- walterbell 3y ago
  Vision therapy covers a broad range of conditions. > quackery COVD, the professional association has existed for 40 years, https://www.covd.org/page/About_Us https://www.covd.org/page/About_Us The College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) is a non-profit, international membership association of eye care professionals including optometrists, optometry students, and vision therapists. Established in 1970, COVD provides board certification for optometrists and vision therapists who are prepared to offer state-of-the-art services in Behavioral and developmental vision care, Vision therapy, Neuro-optometric rehabilitation. A local search found 40 COVD-certified optometrists.
  - stevebmark 3y ago
    How is this related to my factual statement that "vision therapy to improve myopia is quackery"?
    - walterbell 3y ago
      It's a response to your actual statement: "Vision therapy is reliably shown to be quackery in studies."

aeternum 3y ago

This is definitely not true. Pregnancy for example is known to cure myopia in some cases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519268/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5519268/ Furthermore there are contact lenses that temporarily reshape the surface of the eye as well as new glasses, both of which are now either FDA approved or in late-stage trials.

stevebmark 3y ago
Read the study you linked to. Jesus.
donkers 3y ago
From the study you linked: "A likely explanation of the inverse association between pregnancy and myopia progression is the higher exposure to outdoor activities in pregnant women during their maternal leaves. Time of outdoors physical activity of 6.9 vs 5.2 h per week (P=0.002) in pregnant woman compared to non-pregnant woman." Outdoor activities - the same thing as in the Wired article that's noted to slow down myopia progression. I don't think this study supports what you think it supports. Also myopia didn't reverse, the rate of increase merely slowed down in the pregnant women.