Eye-Strain, CVS, Screen Fatigue ???

Easy peasy answer for that one and to reassure you, you are not on your own as, 58% of user operators of Display Screen Equipment in education and the workplace share your experience of eye-strain now recognised as a Global Pandemic by the WHO.

Whether you have 20–20 vision or myopic or asthenopic you will be at a 4 to 7 fold increased risk of visual disruptions, as a repetitive stress injury, due to over-exposure, exceeding “work exposure limits” of an hour a day, on a standard black text on white background screen without, adaption, being customised or ergonomically optimised just for your eyes comfort and ease of binocular function as an individual.

Eye-strain, if not mitigated, will trigger the fight-flight stress response and, if ignored, will predictably and naturally result in the visual system seeking ways in which it can better cope, tolerate and persevere by giving-up trying to sustain your binocular vision, focusing attention on the image from whichever eye is dominant and ignoring the double image from the other eye.

For adults this mirrors the child’s stress response to near or close-up eye-strain presenting in blurred, double vision and their monocular 2D adaptations commonly recognised as having a lazy-eye and/or worse as an eye-turn.

Depending on severity, this natural stress driven adaptation maybe anything from mild and hardly noticeable to obvious to the observer that, if not successfully treated, usually leaves cosmetic surgery as the alternative to other treatments / exercise routines.

However, contrary to established belief that there is nothing other than cosmetic surgery scientist are increasingly excited by the discovery that, as human beings, our brains are far more “plastic” and capable of restoring lost function after injury or rehabilitation in terms of making positive successful “adaptations”.

We have, sort of, always known this from the successes in recovering from ill-health, physical and mental injuries just, had not made the obvious connection with our visual system and it’s capacity to modify and recover functional binocular 3D vision.

It also seems, the very instrument of torture, the standard black on white display screen, also has a therapeutic side to it once customised or optimised for the individual user operator, opposed to the user having to “visually make adaptations to use it”!

The potential for this was discovered in the 1950’s, well before display screens became the norm, by Meares Irlen in Australia that, continues to benefit those with, so called, Visual Dyslexia to this day as an “intuitive” methodology for selecting coloured-overlays.

Dr Arnold Wilkins in the UK developed another intuitive methodology for selecting a coloured “tint” for glasses and more recently in the early 2000’s an “Objective” measurable “Digital Screen Optimiser” (DSO) methodology was developed and later patented by the not for profit S.M.A.R.T. Foundation.

So as 19% of teenagers present with binocular disruptions in education and 58% in the workplace, it has been free for all those in education or training in the UK for the last 16 years and is still currently being sponsored FREE whilst a commercial version is developed for the workplace to enable on-going research and development of potential diagnostic and therapeutic treatment purposes.

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