Ophthalmologists around the world are sounding the alarm: every year more widespread eye diseases. Today glasses or contact lenses are worn by millions of people on the planet, and each year their number increased by three percentage points. But the simple exercises for the eyes allow to keep good eyesight into old age.

Invasion of the "four-eyes"

A couple of generations ago, people with glasses feel "black sheep", now it is the exception, rather, a wholly-owned vision. Modern man often can not imagine life without a computer and the TV, and the resulting vision inevitably deteriorates. Even those who do not suffer from myopia and hyperopia, familiar sensation of "sand in the eyes" - a sure sign of fatigue. Most visual load never goes to benefit the eyes, and eventually leads to the fact that there is a need to wear glasses.

Of course, the glasses can be very beautiful and glamorous accessory and all voluntarily join the army of myopia and hyperopia people do not want anyone. Even the most beautiful glasses can complicate life. The same can be said about contact lenses Contact lenses: blessing or curse? Which seem to be universal, but really is not for everyone.

Thus, it is better not to bring themselves up to the need to go to an ophthalmologist for a prescription glasses. Fortunately, long ago devised special exercises that allow you to maintain visual acuity and remove eye fatigue. Some exercises were invented in the late nineteenth century, the American ophthalmologist William Bates, while others are more recent, but no less effective developments.

Removing eye fatigue

These exercises are essential to those who by the nature of its operations forced many to look at a computer monitor, read or otherwise strain the eyes. It is advisable to carry out a complex every three - four hours to let your eyes relax. If this is not possible, you should take the time to exercise at least once a day.

Exercises can be performed in any order. After each exercise should rest for a minute or two. If additional sessions cause fatigue, they need to stop:

• As can be more narrow eyes. This should be possible to stretch the muscles of the face, head and neck, and hold your breath for a few seconds. After that it is necessary to make a sharp breath, his eyes wide open and relax the muscles. Exercise is repeated three - four times;
• We need to close your eyes and turn the eyeballs first ten times clockwise and then ten times counterclockwise;
• Lightly press the temples with his fingertips while blinking both eyes ten times as fast as possible. Then close your eyes and relax for a few seconds. Exercise should be repeated three times;
• For the eye is very useful to look into the distance, such as a window. Another useful alternate contemplation of objects far and near. For example, you can draw on the window and look at the point five seconds then at her, then out the window. Exercise should be repeated ten - twelve times;
• It is also useful to monitor the movement of the eyes. For example, you can take a pencil in your hand and move it slowly from the nose at arm's length and back, tracking eye movement. Exercise is repeated ten - twelve times;
• You can modify the exercise with pencil move things forward, not backward, and left and right, and watch out for his eyes, without turning his head or torso. Repeat the exercise eight to ten times;
• Imagine the air large number "eight" and slowly trace the outline of her eyes in one direction and then the other. Repeat the exercise six to eight times.

Prevention of myopia

Some people managed with the help of hard exercise for the eyes to get rid of myopia Myopia Returned good vision. But the best thing to do prevention. Exercise can effectively prevent myopia, unless, of course, deal with regularly:

• Close your eyes tightly they screw up, and then open wide. Exercise is repeated eight to ten times;
• Follow the movements of the eyes of a subject, such as a soccer ball or shuttlecocks for badminton. It should not strain your eyes, just move the eyes behind the subject;
• Starting position - standing, hands on his belt. Turn your head to the left and look to your left elbow, then a similar way to look at the right elbow. The exercise is performed five times in each direction;
• Close your eyes and move his eyeballs like a "drawing" imaginary numbers;
• The last exercise is called "Drawing the nose." It is necessary to cover their eyes and imagine that your nose - is a pencil, which can be written in the air. Then, without opening his eyes, you need to draw a nose in the air, any shape, letter or number. The move should be smooth, the eye muscles relax completely. Exercise is repeated five to seven times, if there is fatigue, the classes should be discontinued.

Prevention farsightedness

For the prevention of farsightedness is recommended to train reading a book with fine print in different lighting conditions: bright, normal, dim, even by candlelight. Of course, do not try to read in total darkness, but the eyes have little to strain to see the text. In the reading process should occasionally look into the distance, such as the sky or even a wall.

Repeat these exercises should be five to seven times a day and finish the class, without waiting for severe fatigue. Between exercises required a quiet holiday with his eyes closed for ten minutes or more.

Maria Bykov

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