New Insights on How To Improve Your Astigmatism

Today we are talking about all things related to astigmatism. I get a lot of questions about this, so I wanted to break down what it is and how you can improve it. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to [email protected] or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS astigmatism, eye, stigmatism, develop, body, repetitively, cornea, talk, posture, work, retina, astigmatism correction, measure, left, corneal, twisting, cranial sacral therapy, warped, distortion, part 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]. Hey everybody, it's Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So before we get to today's show, I wanted to let you know that you can now text me your questions 1-844-932-1291 That's 1-844-932-1291 Or you can send me your questions via email. [email protected]. So today I want to revisit a subject that I talk a lot about. It's called a astigmatism. And in astigmatism Well, the way I define it is that it's a twist, a turn a warp that's in the eyeball. I've done a lot of video blogs on on the stigmatism. And it just brings a lot more questions to me. So today, I want to delve very deeply into this topic. And they're, they're kind of different aspects that I have learned about and I apply when I help people reduce their astigmatism. So let's bring in one of my reference books, it's called the dictionary of visual science and I'm quoting, astigmatism is a condition of refraction in which rays emanating from a single luminous point to this is an object in space are not focused on a single point by an optical system, the retina, but instead are focused as to line images at different distances, generally at right angles to each other. So in layman's terms, what this means is that when light enters the eye, if you're near sighted, the light focus is in front of the retina. If you're farsighted, the light would focus behind the retina, and then the astigmatism it focuses in multiple places. And this is due to the fact that the the eyeball we just talked about the structure becomes more egg shaped as opposed to being round. In optometry school, my professors taught me that astigmatism occurred when light entered an eye that was egg shaped, and the light focused on more than one part of the retina simultaneously. And this created a blur that was warped. But there was never a mention in my optometry training about the mind body connection to a stigmatism. And as I delved into my physical therapy protocols, and I started to explore the deeper aspects of astigmatism. I made some discoveries, which I will get to a little later in the article. But first, let's talk about what causes a astigmatism. So there are many causes. One could be just an irregular curvature in the cornea that's the the front surface of the eye the clear window or there could be also a distortion in the lens of the eye. In fact, when people start developing cataracts, sometimes a stigmatism will will be able to be measured by the eye doctor. Astigmatism also tags with nearsightedness, and farsightedness so you can be nearsighted and then you start developing a stigmatism or you can also say start wearing magnification glasses bifocals, in the magnification plus lens, and you also start developing a astigmatism.