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worth · 05-23-2007, 09:30 AM

This article says 10% failure rate for Lasik. Maybe thats for the cheaper shops you're talking about:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...04/ixhome.html

And then there's these people:

http://visionsurgeryrehab.evecommuni...m/f/6541031211

I know you never said that this tuff doens't happen, but Lasik isn't a 100% sure thing.

I wear both glasses and contacts, but I have heard of rehabilitation that doesn't require surgery, rather it entails exercises for your eyes, as though you were "working out" your eyes. Maybe hard to imagine, but if you can rehabilitate your arm after breaking it, why not your eyes? I suppose finding the cause of why we have poor vision is an important part of this. Glasses and contacts only offer a quick fix for the problem. They don't address the causes of the problem. Perhaps if we looked at preventative measures and understood why this happens, there would be less cases of it.

And I am by no means a doctor, so I may be way off base on this.

05-23-2007, 09:30 AM	#36
worth Franchise Player Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Vancouver Exp:	This article says 10% failure rate for Lasik. Maybe thats for the cheaper shops you're talking about: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...04/ixhome.html And then there's these people: http://visionsurgeryrehab.evecommuni...m/f/6541031211 I know you never said that this tuff doens't happen, but Lasik isn't a 100% sure thing. I wear both glasses and contacts, but I have heard of rehabilitation that doesn't require surgery, rather it entails exercises for your eyes, as though you were "working out" your eyes. Maybe hard to imagine, but if you can rehabilitate your arm after breaking it, why not your eyes? I suppose finding the cause of why we have poor vision is an important part of this. Glasses and contacts only offer a quick fix for the problem. They don't address the causes of the problem. Perhaps if we looked at preventative measures and understood why this happens, there would be less cases of it. And I am by no means a doctor, so I may be way off base on this.