All About Astigmatism

I get all kinds of questions about astigmatism, so I am going to answer a couple here on today's show. Let me know if you have any questions you want me to answer and keep an ear out for the answers. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS astigmatism, astigmatism correction, eye, stigmatism, body, twist, work, exercises, warping, prescription, therapy, eyeball, wear, visual, reduce, shaped, doctor, cranial-sacral therapy, vision, feel Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, it's Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity Podcast. Today I'm going to take some questions on astigmatism. This is a hot topic when I do a video blog on social media. There's an explosion of people who asked a lot of questions about astigmatism. So just to remind you, astigmatism means that there's a twist or a warping in the eyeball, it shaped more the eyeball shaped more like an egg instead of being completely round. And the six eye muscles that attach to the eyeball, they're not working equally, which creates a change in the shape of the eye. But any twist in the eye also reflects a twist in the body. I know this because when I went back to massage school, and I studied cranial sacral therapy, I couldn't believe how I could feel the body twist after I measured the eyes, for eye astigmatism. So I astigmatism twist, body twist, they go together. And this twist in the eye is also caused by posture issues, eye movement issues, dietary things, stress issues. So I'm going to go to the questions right now. And the first one is from Natasha. And she is asking, How do I know what is twisted? Is it in the eyes and the body? How do I fix this? Well, the first thing to note is if you go to an eye doctor and you get an exam and he says you've got astigmatism, you've got a warping and twisting in the eye. Now the only way you know you have a twist in the body is if you go to a bodyworker, and the bodyworker can feel the tension. It could be anywhere in your body, it could be in the spine, it could be in the pelvis, it could be you know in your legs, anywhere where your body is twisting, where the two sides of the body are not integrating, this is a form of astigmatism. Now when you wear a full astigmatism correction, and then you go for bodywork and the bodyworker unwinds astigmatism in the body, but then you go back and you put your regular astigmatism glasses or contacts in, guess what happens, the bodywork gets neutralized, the twist starts coming back in the body. So this is why I recommend getting two pairs of prescriptions, one for astigmatism, and one that's either reduced astigmatism or no astigmatism. Of course, you wear that no astigmatism correction 15 to 30 minutes a day in non-demanding and non-threatening situations. It's going to feel weird when you wear that no astigmatism correction initially, because it's showing you a nonwarping in your vision but you're so used to the warping from astigmatism that you're gonna say, Wow, no astigmatism. This is unfamiliar to me, hang in there with it, stay with it. Also, you can't expect to change astigmatism just by wearing a reduced to take astigmatism correction. It doesn't work that way. You have to change the programming, you have to re-educate the brain in the eyes and the body through my physical therapy exercises. I do have a 90-day astigmatism eye exercise program,