Can Video games Really help Lazy Eye? |
The condition called amblyopia or Lazy Eye is when one eye works better than the other. Your brain decides to use your good eye so over time the neural connection to the bad eye becomes weaker. The way this condition is currently treated is the patient has to wear a patch over their good eye for 400 hours forcing the bad eye to work. The only problem is that this can cause the eye not to work together.
According to a study done by researchers at Nottingham University they believe that video games do help. They are using virtual reality treatment which encourages the lazy eye to become more active plus it helps your eyes work better together. Some of the games being used are racing games (not to sure which ones) where the computer sends images of the players own car to the amblyopic eye but the other cars go to the good eye. They are finding that in 1 hours of playing the game they get the same results as wearing the patch for 400 hours without the double vision from the eyes not working together.
Not only will you be albe to get better treatment for you eyes you can have fun doing it.
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yay i live in nottingham
ow and i am k8ter4u
"The way this condition is currently treated is the patient has to wear a patch over there good eye for 400 hours forcing the bad eye to work. The only problem is that this can cause the eye not to work together."
Hrmm, kinda like when $ony patches the PSP firmware it can cause it not to work altogether too.
What a great way to treat it though, I wonder if there is some 3d type exploit the could do by sending only partial data to each eye (wrather than the old red/blue offsetting thing in old movies and comics)
that was the worst attempt at a joke I've ever heard
I been looking at a lot of Porn on my psp and subsequently wanking alot. They say that this affects your eyesite but I reckon its improved...
It's "their" not "there" you idiot
First: Hrmm, kinda like when $ony patches the PSP firmware it can cause it not to work altogether too.
If you don't like it go sell the psp, they MADE the device.
Second: 1 hours of play? Lasy I checked 1 was singular, might have changed since preschool though.
I really hope this is not a joke, because I have the problem with the lazy eye. I am very happy if this is real
both my eyes are lazy, they keep just closing and going to sleep, along with me...
i got a lazy eye since i was borned!
and i play video games (action & sport) evry day for about 6 years or more.
evry year when i check my eyes the reasults are not promissing! im getting blind more and more!
Umm..I'm not too sure he used their/there wrong. There is a form of location, "I wonder if there is.." as in here or there....Their is possessive, as in It is their psp...the possessive their wouldn't make sense "I wonder if their is" .....here
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/their.html
Er..never mind, didn't realize we were all making fun of the original poster, not the guy making the terrible, terrible joke.
I have amplyopia aswell, I did the whole patch thing and it sucked, hopefully this will be utilized fully later on for those who need it (mind you that after the age of 8-9, the eye stops developing, and the condition is very hard/impossible to change after that age).
Also, don't let other people's grammar affect you, it really dosen't matter and is a waste of time to worry about educating them. (really, think about it.)
This is the F'ing PS3 Updates Blog not the Trivial Videogame Barely News Blog. I want to here about PS3 I don't give a rat's ass about "video games can treat this, or help with that" start a new site if you want to post this crap!
"This is the F'ing PS3 Updates Blog"
i think you took a wrong turn at qj.net dude
Yeah, if you want nothing but PS3 news, I'm sorry but you're out of luck. There can only be so much news about that system anyway, and if all you really care about is the PS3...Then I feel sorry for you, but it's your life to live, so good luck with that.
yeah, i don't know if everyone has figured this out but the comments for a story shared between qj.net blogs, such as this one, are also shared.
also, isn't it nice to be informed of what's going on in videogames? go find a ps3-news-only site and feel your eyeballs melt as the news pours in faster than you can press page down... it's worth having this rubbish while news is slow.
when the ps3 thing reallly kicks off we'll get some good stuff. until e3 be patient.
Does this mean we gamers can now make all the lazy eye jokes we want without it being morally wrong? Who cares, gratz to all you people with amblyopia.
It sais at the top of the website on the banner "24/7 coverage of the latest ps3 news" PS f*cking 3 not video games in general. And this story BARELY qualifies as "video game" news. I want to know about what is going on with the PS3, not what video games, in general, may be able to do. And Yes the only thing I care about on a PS3 News site is PS3 news! But, perhaps i will leave. This site has turned to pure rubbish anyway; the bloggers steal all there news from other news sites.
Also if news is slow then DONT POST! Seriously why not just post the what you had for dinner as well. "PS3 NEWS" How the F*ck can you guys justify non-playstation related news, with "isn't it nice to be informed of what's going on in videogames?" Yeah it is, but I go to othersites for that. And honestly who gives a rats f*cking ass about "videogames can treat lazyeye" or "Videogames can treat ADD" So *****ing what how is that relevent to gaming? post that on some BS medical site.
To conclude, ahem, DONT POST NEWS NOT RELATED TO PS3 ON THE GODDDDDDDAAAAAM MMMNNNN PS3 SITE! JESUS CHRIST!!!! Also, I will never come back to this sh*ty page because it has gone so severly downhill. Have fun with this tripe! Later ***** ers!
Can't really tell, right eye is still bad, but I had a chance to watch about 30 minutes of videos off of Metal Gear Acid 2 today with the Solid Eye (3-D) box thing.
Couldn't really notice the 3-d too well except on the guns and bullets, but I did notice when I could tell my eye/brain was deciphering it and most of the time it wasen't.
It's for sure not a cure, and it's very slowly getting worse, but it can't hurt. And like mentioned, I'm having fun in the process.
I think I'm developing this lazy eye crap since my left eye seems to go out of focus sometimes when I'm doing my artwork and browsing the web. This better work then.