April 20, 2022 - EyeClarity Podcast
I get all kinds of questions about astigmatism, so I am going to answer a couple here on today’s show. Let me know if you have any questions you want me to answer and keep an ear out for the answers. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I’m going to take some questions on astigmatism. This is a hot topic when I do a video blog on social media. There’s an explosion of people who asked a lot of questions about astigmatism. So just to remind you, astigmatism means that there’s a twist or a warping in the eyeball, it shaped more the eyeball shaped more like an egg instead of being completely round. And the six eye muscles that attach to the eyeball, they’re not working equally, which creates a change in the shape of the eye. But any twist in the eye also reflects a twist in the body. I know this because when I went back to massage school, and I studied cranial sacral therapy, I couldn’t believe how I could feel the body twist after I measured the eyes, for eye astigmatism. So I astigmatism twist, body twist, they go together. And this twist in the eye is also caused by posture issues, eye movement issues, dietary things, stress issues. So I’m going to go to the questions right now.
And the first one is from Natasha. And she is asking, How do I know what is twisted? Is it in the eyes and the body? How do I fix this? Well, the first thing to note is if you go to an eye doctor and you get an exam and he says you’ve got astigmatism, you’ve got a warping and twisting in the eye. Now the only way you know you have a twist in the body is if you go to a bodyworker, and the bodyworker can feel the tension. It could be anywhere in your body, it could be in the spine, it could be in the pelvis, it could be you know in your legs, anywhere where your body is twisting, where the two sides of the body are not integrating, this is a form of astigmatism. Now when you wear a full astigmatism correction, and then you go for bodywork and the bodyworker unwinds astigmatism in the body, but then you go back and you put your regular astigmatism glasses or contacts in, guess what happens, the bodywork gets neutralized, the twist starts coming back in the body. So this is why I recommend getting two pairs of prescriptions, one for astigmatism, and one that’s either reduced astigmatism or no astigmatism. Of course, you wear that no astigmatism correction 15 to 30 minutes a day in non-demanding and non-threatening situations. It’s going to feel weird when you wear that no astigmatism correction initially, because it’s showing you a nonwarping in your vision but you’re so used to the warping from astigmatism that you’re gonna say, Wow, no astigmatism.
This is unfamiliar to me, hang in there with it, stay with it. Also, you can’t expect to change astigmatism just by wearing a reduced to take astigmatism correction. It doesn’t work that way. You have to change the programming, you have to re-educate the brain in the eyes and the body through my physical therapy exercises. I do have a 90-day astigmatism eye exercise program, you must do that along with wearing a reduced prescription. If you don’t, your body is going to read reject your eyes are going to read reject the no astigmatism correction. Now, this brings me to another question I get. I got from a person who says Now I only wear nonastigmatism, glasses but my astigmatism is increasing. Well, that is because you’re not doing the reeducation work the exercises to change the programming which is causing astigmatism. Again, the expectation is, well if I wear a no astigmatism correction, my stigmatism will go away. You have to change it from the inside out. So you’ve got to be willing to do the 90-day astigmatism program. And then your eyes will adjust to the nonadjustable astigmatism correction. It doesn’t work the other way.
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Now, I’m going to take one more question about astigmatism. And this is a very interesting case. This is a mom. She’s got an eight-year-old son and she took him to an eye doctor and the eye doctor gave the child an imbalance of astigmatism there’s a difference between the right eye and left eye and also put them in a bifocal, which seems kind of confusing to try to get a child to look through a split lens. It’s certainly a technique sometimes that is used to reduce myopia or astigmatism but I find going with a single vision lens at the beginning, is the best way to go and not try to do these fancy prescriptions. Also, when you correct this stigmatism differently, you’re reinforcing the difference in the eyes.
You want to balance the eyes as best as you can. And then the eye exercises the vision therapy, doing things like the primitive reflex therapy. I do a lot of visual-vestibular therapy so you get the inner ear and the eyes working together. Remember I said the stigmatism is related a lot to postural issues, neck issues. So doing this visual-vestibular therapy, doing a lot of gross motor exercises, bilateral integration, forwards and backward, visually guided exercises, through obstacle courses. All of these things are really, really important. So I would leave you with this one point. When you’ve been diagnosed with astigmatism. It’s important to note that astigmatism is caused by tight neck muscles, postural issues, visual stress, and once the doctor starts measuring astigmatism in the eye, and he or she corrects it, it reinforces the warping or the twist in the eyeballs. And remember that I said that any prescription that’s in the eyes is showing up in the body in your movement, in your posture, in your tension patterns. And by working on the body twist, as well as the eye twist. This is the formula for reversing astigmatism. The second part of this is is that if you do get a reduced astigmatism correction or no astigmatism correction, you need to include the physical eye therapy exercises for astigmatism to help change the programming, what caused astigmatism and if you do all of these things, then you have a great chance to reduce astigmatism. So that’s my show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Until next time, take care
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