Another common eye defect is the farsightedness (hyperopia). It is the opposite defect to the shortsightedness – the vision from far is relatively clear, while from near it is blurred. This makes the eyes tired quickly when reading, may lead to headaches and irritation of the conjunctiva. Farsightedness occurs due to the improper structure of the eyeball that is not long enough or has a curved cornea. This results in focusing of the light rays that fall into the eye behind, instead of on, the retina.
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Presbyopia, or age-related focus dysfunction, as the name suggests, is one of the side effects of the general aging of the body and progressing deterioration of functioning of all human organs. It occurs commonly at the persons after the 40. year of age. The defect is more advanced until the 60. – 65. year of age, when it starts to moderate. The symptoms are the same as with the far-sightedness, which means that there are problems with the acute vision of the objects located near the eyes. However, the presbyopia is founded differently than the far-sightedness discussed before.
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On the other hand, there are many persons in the advanced age who by not suggesting their need to wear the glasses, question the argument of inevitable deterioration of sight with age. However difficult is to deny the argument that at the advanced age, the lens becomes hardened or opaque to a some extent and the condition of the eyeball muscles is worse, it should be affirmed that the techniques of Bates method are the efficient antidote to these unwanted changes.
For presbyopia, we do the same exercises as in the hyperopia section on this page.
For the far-sighted person, the best solution to improve the sight is to read a small print with the eyes relaxed. The texts that have different print size help our eyes learn to focus on even smaller letters while maintaining the dynamic relaxation of sight.
The exercise with the inverted text allows to focus what your eyes are seeing without the need to recognize the text.
This exercise extends the field of perception to the near point, which allows to see the print from even nearer.
This exercise allows to practice the near and far vision, which improves eye accommodation and spatial perception.