Tonight is the next webcast of Oprah Winfrey's online class with Echkart Tolle: A New Earth Web Event . I strongly suggest it is worth watching for all glaucoma patients and anyone else interested in maintaining good vision. There is more to the connection between this topic and our visual health than...
Below is part of a very interesting email a reader sent me a little while ago. I asked for his permission to share some of it here. I hope this person eventually finds time to start a blog on FitEyes.com or share more of his experiences. I could learn a lot from him, and I suspect many other people would...
I received some nice feedback about yesterday's blog article on how nasal conditions affect eye pressure . Thank you for your emails (and I would appreciate it if more readers will leave comments on my blog too). Yesterday's article was inspired primarily by a scientific research article and personal...
Sinus conditions affect one's eye pressure. This is particularly important for glaucoma patients. Nasal blockage can have a strong effect on eye pressure and there are subtle effects as well. In addition, I speculate that the nose may offer an effective way for glaucoma patients to improve the long-term...
Effects of Valsalva's manoeuvre on intraocular pressure We examined the effects of breath holding against a closed glottis (Valsalva's manoeuvre) on intraocular pressure (IOP) in four groups of volunteer subjects: 37 healthy young control subjects, 10 patients with chronic open-angle glaucoma, 11 age...
Increased intraocular pressure and visual field defects in high resistance wind instrument players Joel S. Schuman MD, Emma Craig Massicotte MD, Shannon Connolly BA, Ellen Hertzmark MS, Bhaskar Mukherji MD and Mandi Z. Kunen MD New England Eye Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts...
As I understand this study, the researchers had subjects with primary open angle glaucoma (gluacoma simplex) breath through their right nostril only (by closing off their left nostril). Breathing through one nostril while closing the other with the fingers is a common pranayama (yogic breathing) exercise...