What Every Pilot Needs to Know
Better Eyesight without Glasses?
Simple Exercise
In 1990, Dr. Cook wrote VISION: What Every Pilot Needs to Know. At the time, pilots were required to have 20/20 eyesight without glasses to get on with the major airlines. As a result, we were soon seeing pilots from around the nation who needed to improve their vision without glasses.
At Cook Vision Therapy Center, the same therapy program that helped hundreds of pilots to better eyesight is still available for anyone who can’t live with glasses and can’t live without them.
Who Can Benefit from Vision Therapy?
Vision therapy at Cook Vision Therapy Center offers a path to reduce dependency on glasses or eliminate them. Here’s who may benefit most:
- Motivated Individuals Seeking Weaker Glasses: If you want to avoid progressively stronger prescriptions, our program can help stabilize or improve your vision with consistent effort.
- Candidates for Glasses Elimination: Success depends on your current prescription strength. For example:
- Mild to Moderate Nearsightedness (Myopia): If you can read a small-print book without glasses at 16–20 inches (even briefly), you’re likely to improve distance vision and reduce reliance on glasses. Ideal candidates include those who only need glasses for driving or movies.
- High Myopia: If you must hold reading material closer than 13 inches without glasses, you may still reduce, but not fully eliminate, glasses use for certain tasks.
- Ages 40–50 with Reading Glasses: Most can achieve greater independence from readers. Some may eliminate glasses entirely by committing to a daily vision exercise routine after therapy.
Key Factors for Success:
- Prescription Strength: Lower prescriptions correlate with higher success rates.
- Consistency: Post-therapy maintenance is critical for lasting results.
How does “Seeing without glasses” work?
Imagine for a moment that you are taking aerial photographs from eighty thousand feet. If that film were developed, the photographs might be nearly impossible to interpret. But if you ran your data through a computer, unrecognizable shades of color might suddenly become distinct landmarks and objects.
The brain, you could say, is a computer. Eye exercises for seeing better without glasses reprogram that computer. Thus, even though the images falling on the back of the eye may be no sharper than the aerial photographs in our example, our brains can be programmed to sort through the blur and extract recognizable details.
FAQs
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Who is eligible for vision therapy at Cook Vision Therapy Center?
Motivated individuals in Marietta, GA, with mild to moderate myopia, high myopia (partial reduction), or those aged 40–50 needing reading glasses. Success depends on prescription strength and commitment to post-therapy exercises.
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Check Out Our Resources
Dr. Cook’s Publications:
- Authored books VISUAL FITNESS and WHEN YOUR CHILD STRUGGLES.
- Published articles in top optometric journals.
- His article “Eyesight, infinity and the human heart” was voted “Best Non-Technical Article” by the Association of Optometric Editors.
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