Doing some eye stretches with glasses, without glasses and with eye patch.

[@Zainab_Al_Aydrus]

Dear Michael… can acupuncture helps to strengthen the eye muscles?

[@strabismusworld2026]

I have no idea. If you have experience with it, let me know. I often heard strength is not really the issue with the extra ocular muscles, rather the integration or the grasp that the nervous system has on them. As in sports: rather a technique than a strength issue. Either way, I’d be great to get fluid and binocularly harmonious eye movements in all directions all the time.

[@pierre-levallois]

Hi Michael, as you mention in your video, I see the frame of my glasses on the sides when I look left or right. This forces me to look straight ahead, I turn my head too often to look to the sides and my gaze isn't fluid. Do you have any advice on how to stop seeing double on the sides with your glasses?

[@strabismusworld2026]

Yes, you are a “head locker”. Instead of moving the eyes, you lock the eyes in position and move your head. That gives some comfort initially but ultimately it erodes visual flexibility and perhaps even gaze stability in primary gaze (looking straight ahead). This phenomenon is also induced even more if the prescription for either eye is very different (anisometropia). Then the different lenses induce various optical effects when looking to the side. A solution for this can be contact lenses and then training range and stability of gaze. Contact lenses also eliminate the optical distortions that glasses can bring about bc they are placed right on the eye. Lastly contact lenses enable the opening up of peripheral vision which is important when acquiring fusion and stereo vision. Personally I never found contact lenses very comfortable. I am a hyperope. It is unusual for hyperopes to wear contact lenses. I felt it made my vision less clear compared to not wearing anything at all…