If you’re exploring holistic optometry, a concept that you’ve likely encountered over and over is (micro)prism lenses.
Microprism lenses are a proactive rather than reactive solution to visual disturbances. To be specific, micro prism lenses are designed to manipulate light entry into the eyes. By refracting light precisely, these lenses encourage optimal eye muscle engagement, potentially influencing eye shape and visual function over time. So, you can ditch generic contacts or glasses and say hello to personalised, vision-boosting eyewear.
How Do Prism Lenses Work?
The science of prism lenses is relatively straightforward. Normally, light enters the eye. Therefore, bending of light can be used to shift the image seen by the eye. This shift can help correct conditions where the eyes are misaligned – which we’ll explore below.
By realigning the images perceived by each eye, prism lenses can reduce or even eliminate double vision, eye strain, blurred vision, and so forth. We typically refer to prism lenses as ‘eye gyms’ because they constantly challenge and exercise the muscles in and around your eyes, helping to improve their strength and coordination. With repeated use, the muscles adjust to display better-quality images.
Yet, as studies in the quantum field have shown, prism lenses can have a positive effect on mental and physical health. Some benefits that we typically see in our customers who test prism lenses are improved energy levels, reduced stress levels, and increased comfort in visual perception.
The easiest way to access prism lenses is to contact an optometrist who can closely examine your vision and prescribe the right prim lens for long and short-term use.
Conditions That Prism Lenses Can Treat
Prism glasses can be deployed to treat a number of common and rare eye conditions, including:
- Strabismus: a conditioned signified by misaligned eyes, commonly known as crossed or wall eyes.
- Binocular vision dysfunction (when the eyes don’t work together, straining the eye muscles).
- Convergence insufficiency (i.e. Difficulty uniting the eyes to focus on near objects).
- Divergence excess (i.e. Difficulty keeping the eyes aligned when focusing on distant objects)
- Double vision, which can be caused by head injury, muscle or nerve complications, or other eye-related issues.
These conditions can severely impact an individual’s quality of life. Yet, with customised prism lenses, you can take control of your eye health once and for all.
Customising Your Prism Lenses
Each person has a unique vision system. Consequently, by customising prism glasses, you can precisely calibrate to an individual’s eye alignment. Customised glasses pack much more of a punch when managing the symptoms of poor eye health, such as headaches and blurred vision. Standard, off-the-shelf glasses aren’t customised, limiting their effects. By wearing prism lenses as recommended, you can observe results quickly, with no discomfort when wearing them.
Customised prism lenses are also used for effective binocular vision dysfunction treatment and vision therapy to treat strabismus, which help enhance eye coordination and realign the eyes, leading to improved overall visual function.
How To Find Out More About Prism Lenses
Prism lenses can gently correct double vision and strabismus, among other eye conditions, over time. Wearing them is no different from wearing other glasses, yet the overall effect is actively improving rather than just reactive.
Interested in discovering more about how prism lenses can be part of your journey to improved eye health? Microprism Vision is proud to offer customised prism lenses for better-quality vision – to find out more, get in touch with our optometrists.