June 15, 2004 |
Vision Health
Protect Your Eyes from Strain Overworked? Tense? Spend hours in front of the computer screen? Do your eyes feel achy, unable to focus? Is it hard to see after hours of sewing? Does the print on the magazine in front of you seem to blur? You may be suffering from eyestrain, a type of ocular stiffness that can occur when you focus on something for a long period of time without a lot of eye movement. The source of that stiffness is rigidity in the extraocular muscles surrounding the eye. The socket of your eye is a cone-shaped hollow that contains the eyeball and optic nerve, tear gland, extraocular muscles, orbital fat, and many blood vessels and nerves. The tiny, sensitive extraocular muscles move the eyeball in various directions. Like your other muscles, if you don’t move your eyes, blood and oxygen levels decrease and your eye muscles start accumulating waste and can become acidic. To alleviate eyestrain, make sure you rest your eyes periodically as you’re working. Close them and just relax, and then look out the window or on an object far away. Get up and walk around. These small measures will help you to relax your eyes and restore oxygen flow. Range of Motion Exercise: To help you rest and relax your eyes, try the following exercise:
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