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Train your eye!

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

One of the fundamental qualities in a good sportsman is what is known as hand-eye coordination, which allows you, for example, hitting a ball with the racket or anticipate when they reach the height of the ball during a match football. Surprisingly, many hours almost every train our endurance and strength, but we rarely remember to train your eye, ability or even the key to our quality of life and future. Do not know where to start? Try these eye exercises.

Train your eye

1. First test
Once the exercise, switch to the other eye and repeat a few times.
- Grab a pencil and stretch out your arm toward the front.
- Cover up one eye with your other hand and arm moves laterally along with free eye pencil.
- You should arrive at about the height of the ear, where vision is blurred.
- Make a couple of rebounds slow, going from camp to clear blurred vision.
- Repeat a few times and switch to the other eye.
- Do the same but with movement up and down and diagonally.

2. Second exercise
Trains in sight with vertical displacements. Now even more difficult: with a pencil in each hand.
- Stretch one up and one down.
- It then passes the look of a pen to another in vertical displacement.

3. Third exercise
About aléjalo pencil and, without moving or tronoc head. With your arm straight, without moving the trunk or head.
- About the pencil to your nose without seeing everything twice (about 5 cm),
- Go back to zoom out and repeat this movement about twenty times.

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Eye Care: Myopia

Monday, December 21st, 2009

myopiaIt is a vision disorder caused by the elongation of the eyeball or a refractive error, so that parallel rays are focused in front of the retina. Popularly known as the difficulty for distance.

1. What is it?
By comparing the eye with a camera in a normally sighted eye focuses the image on the retina but in the myopic eye the image is formed in front of the retina.This may be because the eye is too long or that the lens system is too powerful.

2. Types of myopia
There are basically two types of myopia:
- The simple myopia is present from birth and tends to stabilize in middle age without exceeding the 8 diopters
- Myopia opus that begins in childhood or early adulthood and is not stabilized until later.

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