Product Description
Unbiased summary of the literature about myopia, some ideas about linkages between the various published results, and recommendations for shortsighted people and people who don't want to become shortsighted at all.
From the Inside Flap
For a long time traditional medicine taught that myopia is simply fate and prescribing glasses is the only way to treat the symptoms.
However, a lot of exciting research over the last twenty years has given new insight into mechanisms, which lead to myopia. This new information also justifies a number of therapies that had been considered to be scientifically invalid before.
This book is an impartial summary of numerous publications about myopia (containing more than 1000 references), and its purpose is:
- to increase the overall knowledge about myopia in an easy-to-read but scientifically correct format without skipping opinions and results that are still controversial,
- to offer suggestions for the best ways to handle myopia.
These recommendations do not replace treatment by a health professional, but it should enable the reader to enter detailed discussions with the treating optometrist, ophthalmologist or physician.
The typical reader for whom this book was written is somebody who has myopia, or whose relative has myopia, and who is willing to take the tough route through a lot of scientific results. Maybe even some professionals in the area of myopia can benefit by getting a guide to numerous research results.
This book is based on a paper, which is published on the Internet (look with your search engine for "Myopia Manual"). On this Internet page updated versions will be published when appropriate.
However, a lot of exciting research over the last twenty years has given new insight into mechanisms, which lead to myopia. This new information also justifies a number of therapies that had been considered to be scientifically invalid before.
This book is an impartial summary of numerous publications about myopia (containing more than 1000 references), and its purpose is:
- to increase the overall knowledge about myopia in an easy-to-read but scientifically correct format without skipping opinions and results that are still controversial,
- to offer suggestions for the best ways to handle myopia.
These recommendations do not replace treatment by a health professional, but it should enable the reader to enter detailed discussions with the treating optometrist, ophthalmologist or physician.
The typical reader for whom this book was written is somebody who has myopia, or whose relative has myopia, and who is willing to take the tough route through a lot of scientific results. Maybe even some professionals in the area of myopia can benefit by getting a guide to numerous research results.
This book is based on a paper, which is published on the Internet (look with your search engine for "Myopia Manual"). On this Internet page updated versions will be published when appropriate.
About the Author
Dr. Klaus Schmid is a physicist by education. He became interested in myopia because of the severe shortsightedness of his children – without myopic ancestors. He started to collect information to help them, and finally wanted to share all this material with everybody who is affected by the problem of myopia. A special motivation was also the experience from his "professional life" that really neutral and unbiased views are rather rare, but highly demanded by the "clients". As a consequence, this paper is intended to be as neutral and unbiased as possible and rather complete.
