Alternative medicine Home

Beauty Info

Massage techniques

Pure Natural Aromatherapy Essential oils



Everything Old Is New Again: Rebuilding Your Vision


Glasses, contacts, or surgery. These are the usual choices offered to those of us with bad vision. Orlin Sorensen, though, needed an alternative. A commercial airline pilot who found himself in jeopardy of being downsized after the 9/11 tragedies, Sorensen decided to go for broke and pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a Navy fighter pilot. The only catch was that Navy fighter candidates were required to have near-perfect, uncorrected vision -- no surgery allowed.

As for so many who seek different medical options, it was word of mouth that led Sorensen down a different path: a fellow pilot suggested eye exercises to naturally correct vision. Turns out, the exercises weren't so much the "road not taken" as the "road not taken in a while." Sorensen's research revealed that natural vision training, in fact, had been around for almost a century.

Natural vision correction involves performing eye exercises and relaxation techniques daily to increase optical muscle strength and coordination. With a 30-minute daily routine, after just a month Sorensen improved his vision from 20/85 to 20/20; he went on to pass the Navy's visual acuity test. In 2001, he founded a company, Vision for Life, to share his knowledge with the general public and to challenge the widespread belief that surgery is the only method of correcting vision. As more and more people turn to alternative medicine -- one in three people in the U.S., according to the New England Journal of Medicine -- Sorensen's company has proven to be visionary in more ways than one.

A wholistic orientation to health

Watching TV, computer use, reliance on optical correction from glasses and contacts, as well as the normal aging process, all contribute to weak and distorted vision. Integral components of the eye are not stimulated but instead suffer from a narrow range of use, in the same way that repetitive mousing and typing tasks on the computer can lead to tendonitis in the arm and, eventually, carpal tunnel. Just as you exercise your body at the gym or practice yoga in order to improve muscle tone, agility, range of motion, and flexibility, so too do the eyes benefit from daily exercise. Designed to reverse the stresses placed upon the optical system, the vision-rebuilding process fortifies your eyes in ways that would never be achieved through normal daily activities.

Sorensen's Vision for Life program provides multilevel goals and strengthening tools that challenge and stimulate different parts of the visual system. Customized training programs are available for those suffering from nearsightedness, astigmatism, and aging vision (presbyopia). The program's simple drills and exercises can be done at home, in the office, or on the road, thus enabling the practitioner to integrate them as part of an overall healthy lifestyle. It's no accident that Sorensen is from Seattle, a city surrounded by natural beauty whose residents are perennially voted as some of America's fittest.

An idea takes flight

Not only has Vision for Life become a success -- according to surveys from customers worldwide, the program boasts over a 90% success rate in improving vision problems -- but the medical establishment has also done research supporting the theories that the program is based upon, as in this excerpt from the Journal of the American Optometric Association describing the results of subjects who underwent natural vision training: "Subjects often stated that they had experienced the ability to make eye contact (without correction) with people across a room or street; they could see buildings and windows clearly without glasses many miles across San Francisco Bay, or in the case of high-diopter myopes (> -4.0 diopters) they were able to read books easily at arm's length."

Unlike eye surgery, natural vision correction is noninvasive and risk-free. And unlike glasses or contacts, it an active process rather than a palliative measure. So it's no wonder vision rebuilding seems to strike a chord with health-conscious people today, who are increasingly choosing organic foods over fast foods, meditation over confrontation, and lifestyle changes over potentially harmful quick fixes. Ironic, but sometimes we need to take the long view to really appreciate what we're seeing.

To learn more about the Vision for Life program please visit their website at rebuildyourvision.com.

Tyler Sorensen

Vision for Life, Redmond, WA, 98077, Phone: 1-877-733-4543, Web: http://www.rebuildyourvision.com, Email: questions@rebuildyourvision.com


MORE RESOURCES:

Geek

'Fracture putty' may quicken the bone-healing process
DVICE
The "fracture putty" is, like many of our medical advancements lately, based around the magic of stem cells. The scientists used adult stem cells producing a protein in bone healing and generation, placed it in a gel, and inserted it into rats.
'Fracture Putty' to Repair Broken Bone in DaysScience Daily (press release)
Georgia researchers create "putty" to help heal bones in weeksKnovel
UGA develops stem cell gel to help bones heal fasterAtlanta Business Chronicle
Online Athens
all 11 news articles »


WND.com

Political views torpedo medical license application
WND.com
By Jack Minor The Kansas State board of Healing Arts apparently is saying political perspectives are more important than medical knowledge for its doctors. That's the result of the board's decision this week to reject a request from Dr. Terrence Lakin ...



American CEOs get an Israeli medical education
Jerusalem Post
Healing gardens, patient rooms, square feet, two beds per room, one bed per room, one window per patient ... I mean these are huge developments,” Mapa told The Media Line. “It's not something we wouldn't do in the States, or in Canada, ...

and more »


American CEOs Get an Israeli Medical Education
The Media Line
Healing gardens, patient rooms, square feet, two beds per room, one bed per room, one window per patient…I mean these are huge developments,” Mapa told The Media Line. “It's not something we wouldn't do in the States, or in Canada, and it's something ...

and more »


PsychCentral.com (blog)

Integrative Medicine to Treat Eating Disorders
PsychCentral.com (blog)
By Carolyn Coker Ross, MD Integrative medicine can be defined as “a healing-oriented discipline that takes into account the whole person — body, mind and spirit — including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and ...

and more »


Marlborough Express

Demand up for natural healing
Marlborough Express
The growing number of people merging herbal healing with traditional medicine was due to busier lifestyles and unhealthy diets, she said. "We don't grow our own vegetables any more and the supermarket products are full of added flavourings and ...



CONMED Corporation Launches New Products at 2012 Annual American Academy of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Under normal conditions, these platelets release a variety of factors that initiate and subsequently promote healing. New advances in medicine have been developed to harness and concentrate these platelets to be precisely introduced to the injury site ...

and more »


New York Times

HealthWatch: Research Reveals Healing Benefits Of Massage
CBS Local
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) – Having a massage after exercise can significantly reduce muscle soreness, and a new study published Thursday in the journal “Science Transitional Medicine” offers a scientific explanation. The explanation lies in the reason ...
10 Minutes of Massage Reduces Muscle InflammationSkinInc.com

all 14 news articles »


New laser therapies 'could make tattoo removal easier'
Newstrack India
... requiring a few weeks of healing time between procedures. According to dermatologist Arielle NB Kauvar, MD, FAAD, clinical professor of dermatology at New York University School of Medicine in New York City, the process of tattoo ink removal is ...

and more »


Ease pain with medicine cabinet makeover
WKBT La Crosse
(NewsUSA) - In the current economy, the over 75 million chronic and acute pain sufferers in the US need to take a good look in their medicine cabinets. Americans have been conditioned to buy specific products for different kinds of pain -- something ...

and more »

Google News

Alternative home | site map | Beauty | Massage oils | Essential Oils | Privacy and FAQ | Alternative medicine Courses
Massage oils 365 © 2011 Alternative medicine