Eye Focusing Exercises

Eye focusing exercises are sometime recommending for people with astigmatism, weak eye muscles, convergence insufficiency or for eyestrain. Benefits of eye focusing exercises have been questioned but may help improve vision and reduce symptoms, such as headaches, caused by eyestrain. Eye focusing exercises are easy and quick to perform and have no known negative side effects.

Convergence Insufficiency

• According to a study reported in Science Daily, eye exercises could help treat convergence insufficiency, which is eye muscle coordination problem.

Trombone Exercise

• Hold a pencil, with your arm extended. Slowly bring the pencil towards your nose and have your eyes focus on the tip of the pencil until the pencil touches your nose. Reverse the process while moving the pencil back out to an arm extension position. Repeat this entire cycle several times.

Scanning Exercise

• Hold a newspaper in front of you at the point where it is slightly blurry. Have your eyes jump around the page, quickly focusing a new word with each jump.

Popular Programs

• Popular commercial products that use eye-focusing exercises include See Clearly and The Program for Better Vision.

Suggestions

• Due to controversy regarding the effectiveness of eye focusing exercises, it is best to consult your optometrist or eye specialist before purchasing or embarking on an eye focusing exercise program.