• NABDad@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Interesting.

    One of the things my wife did was vision training. She had a computer with VR glasses that people would use to exercise their binocular vision to help them keep their eyes aligned correctly.

    Now, that’s not fixing the myopia, but if the muscles that point your eyes aren’t working well, they’ll spasm, and you won’t be able to focus.

    That is another point my wife mentioned when we were talking about it. People think they can’t see because they can’t focus, but they really can’t focus because they are working so hard to keep their eyes aligned properly that the muscles spasm. So, she could “fix the myopia” by fixing the binocular vision problem.

    It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that a doctor said it wasn’t possible, because my wife would encounter patients on both ends of the spectrum: some who were told VT didn’t work and they had to buy glasses, and others who were told VT was the solution and they had to do dozens of sessions costing many hundreds of dollars.

    My wife would charge them for a couple training sessions in person so they knew what to do, then let them do the exercises at home (obviously not using VR at home).

    Part of my wife’s problem is she was ethical. In the last full year she worked before going on disability, her total take home (as the owner) was around $6k.