Can You Improve Lazy Eye

Today we are talking about Amblyopia also known as Lazy Eye. It's been a common idea that this can only be treated in childhood, but today we are going to look at research and discuss how it might be treated as you get older. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, lazy eye, child, doctors, perceptual learning, lazy, created, visual, adulthood, age, adults, ai, called, improve, therapy, vision, general anesthesia, institute, development, infant 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. Hi, everybody, Dr. Sam here, and we are at another EyeClarity podcast. So I want to talk about lazy eye. Another term for that is amblyopia. The reason why I bring this up is over the last six months, I have treated a number of children and adults who have been diagnosed with lazy eye. And in every case, the doctors that they went to see, said that if you don't correct the amblyopia by age seven, you won't be able to improve the vision. Now, in each case, the three children and the one adult, not only did they eliminate the amblyopia, but they were able to improve their depth perception, and their spatial awareness, increase their balance, their focus, their concentration. So I could sit here and say, you know, doing this over three decades, this information that most patients get from their doctor, that if you don't correct this by age seven, then there's nothing you can do. So I'm going to point to a couple of research studies. The first was conducted by the National Institutes of Health. And what they were trying to ascertain is the belief that the majority of eye doctors, what they're saying in their offices, is that there's a cut off age, and unless you treat the lazy eye before this cut off age, then forget about it. You can't help people. So in this study, it was conducted at 49 different eye centers across the United States. Some very famous Institute's like the Mayo Clinic, Emory Eye Center in Atlanta, Ohio State, Southern California, College of Optometry Bascom. Palmer Eye Institute in Florida. So what the study showed was that, well, there were 507 children between the ages of seven and 17. And the question was, could amblyopia be improved up to age 17. And the results showed that 53% of the seven to 12 year olds had improved vision following treatment, and 47%. Between the ages of 13 and 17 year olds, also gained improvement in their eyesight. So I want to take this a step further, because what about adults? Can human amblyopia be treated in adulthood? adulthood? And there was a really great research study was a collection of research papers, and it was put out by the Europe. It's called Europe PMC author manuscripts. So it's the PubMed of Europe. And in that research, they specifically studied can amblyopia be helped in adulthood. And, without a doubt, the results showed that adults with amblyopia could restore several aspects of their visual function and perceptual learning. And in this form of fine ocular to eye therapy. They found that there was a really strong positive influence when you do things like daily visual stimulation, you know, other broadband activities that would provide feedback to the adult so that they could again begin to stimulate and improve the lazy eye the amblyopic guy as a relates to The the better seeing eye. 05:04