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3/14 Know an optometrist/opthomologist who is REALLY good at
fitting contact lenses? Especially difficult weird double
vision 6-degrees-of-prism (though I could do with 3 or 4)
people? (I don't even know if they make contact lenses
like this)
\_ Lasik will save you money in the long term
\_ Lasik is worse than pointless if your vision (and it's
degradation) is still changing a lot, as is often the case
until one is in their 30's. Suggesting that someone undergo
Lasik without any knowledge of the particulars is idiotic.
\_ LAISK does not work for double vision-people. problem is not
on the cornea.
\_ LAISK is not a well studied procedure. There are still
several problems that need to get sorted out. For example,
many people have problems with night vision and "flaring"
after the procedure. The age thing is also important, my
eye doctor recomends that you wait till age 35 (min) before
having it done. In the posters case, it wouldn't even
work, as others have mentioned.
\_ It's been done in Europe for 10+ years. How much more
studied do you want it to be? For people with bad enough
vision, it's worth the risk. Flaring? Who cares about
night vision flaring when before the procedure, vision was
just a blur at anything over 10 feet? I'll take some minor
flaring. If you wait until its perfect, you'll be dead of
old age. No medical procedure is perfect. Talk to your
doctor.
\_ And everything done in Europe is therefore good. We
should discuss this further over a European burger.
\_ use biofeedback to retrain your eyes to see clearly. works
for many. see: http://www.accommotrac.com
\_ Different doctors carry different brands of lenses, so it
may not be necessarily specific to one doctor.
\_ Dr. Russell Cotteral -- Kensington Optometry on Arlington Ave,
510-527-1714. |
| www.accommotrac.com Referrals The Accommotrac Vision Trainer THE ACCOMMOTRAC^ VISION TRAINER is a high-technology electronic instrument, used by a doctor to teach the patient -- by sight and sound -- how to voluntarily control the eye's focusing muscle, the ciliary body. When the patient looks into the instrument, a tone is played that indicates to the patient when the muscle is focusing properly. The Accommotrac^ Vision Trainer is a registered trademark of Biofeedtrac Inc. NASA on the Accommotrac^ Vision Trainer: The Accommotrac system was invented by Dr. It is based on vision research performed by Ames Research Center and a special optometer developed for the Ames program by Stanford Research Institute. Trachtman's Vision Trainer is intended to improve certain vision defects by teaching the patient to control the ciliary body, the focusing muscle of the eye. The key is biofeedback, defined as a technique wherein a patient learns to control a bodily process or function of which he is not normally aware. Blood pressure and heart rate, for example, can be controlled; It takes a lot of practice and a great deal of motivation to learn to control the focusing muscle of the eye, but many doctors are now using the Accommotrac^ Vision Trainer with consistent success. Not all patients can throw away their corrective lenses, says the system's inventor, Dr. Trachtman, but most achieve improvement of some sort, such as halting or reversing their needs for increased lens prescriptions. Trachtman claims a 90 percent success for correcting, improving or stopping focusing problems. The Accommotrac^ Vision Trainer has also proved effective in treating eye movement problems, such as nystagmus (eye oscillation), strabismus (cross eyes or wall eyes) and amblyopia (lazy eye). Excerpt from NASA's Spinoff 1990, Health and Medicine, "Biofeedback for Better Vision". |