When you think about improving your eyesight, natural therapies are not usually the first thing that springs to mind. Most people make an appointment with their optician and either opt for glasses or contact lenses. We know that the eyes have a lot of undue stress, causing muscles to strain and stress, whilst other muscles [...]

Glasses have been around for centuries to help improve and provide clearer vision. More modern methods of vision correction such as contact lenses and eye surgery are more advanced, but actually treat the symptoms rather than the cause, just as glasses do. Even pinhole glasses have been used to focus light rays on the retina. [...]

Why is it that millions of people world wide wear glasses? There are not many animals in the animal kingdom that need glasses, so what makes man different? It’s an accepted fact that glasses weaken your eyes because they encourage you to use your eyesight in the wrong way, and this can actually promote visual [...]

Contacts are not just something that you just “stick onto your eyes”. Contact lenses are really a foreign object in the eye. A good knowledge of what contacts are and how best to look after them in order to help your eyesight without damaging the eye is essential. Problems with contact lenses sometimes painful adaptation [...]

Contact lenses are a popular way to correct eyesight, whether short sighted, far sighted, presbyopia, or stigmatic eyes. Contact lenses can also be uses by people who have had eye surgery for cataracts. Disposable contact lenses have become very popular, though a lot of people use hard contact lenses and gas permeable lenses. Obviously with [...]

Contact lenses are one of the most popular forms of eyesight correction. It has been estimated that there are greater than 3.3 million people in the UK alone wearing contact lenses (The Association of Contact Lens Manufacturers). Contact lenses are used to correct short sightedness (myopia) and long sightedness (hypermetropia), and there are also lenses [...]