Eye exercises to improve sight – is there any science behind them? An ophthalmologist explains why you shouldn’t buy the hype

By Benjamin Botsford, Assistant Professor of Opthalmology, UMass Chan Medical School

You may have seen advertisements claiming to eliminate the need for eyeglasses through vision therapy or vision training – basically, eye exercises.

These exercises include putting pressure on or palming the eye; eye movement exercises; or straining to read by using the wrong prescription glasses to “train” the eyes.

As a professor of ophthalmology – and as an eye doctor who has seen thousands of patients – I can tell you that no study to date shows strong evidence…

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