June 01, 2025

The #1 Mistake People Make at the Eye Doctor (And How to Avoid It)

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Sam Berne (00:00.076)

A reduced prescription for the computer. So when they calculate a near sighted prescription of 20 feet that prescription is too strong for you for 20 inches. And in fact, if you try to use your distance glasses for the computer, it’s going to make your eyes worse at distance and to two different one for distance and one for computer and then just don’t use anything for reading.

and get rid of the progressive lenses. That’s only inducing more myopia because it’s tunneling you. You’ll find that you’ll get like a distance prescription and you’re driving. You have the whole window now that you’re using right now. You’re only using the top fourth of the lens for driving. So your peripheral is very disabled in some ways.

all in the spirit of convenience, you know, but it’s making your eyes worse in doing that. Can prism lenses be the same as your your sighted lenses that are maybe folded into one? yeah, of course. Yeah. And so, you know, for some of you that had a really positive experience for the prism, we might incorporate it.

For others, we might just do it for home, like a home exercise. So it just depends. know, sometimes you incorporate the prism into the prescription glasses. You can do that or you just get the prism and you work with it as an exercise. When I work with the kids at Kid Power, it’s a really good question. Do I want to put the prisms in their prescription or

I want to just have them work with the physical therapist and that’s that’s kind of a question that we ask a lot if they’re really embedded and I see a huge improvement with the prism like their posture and their movement and their affect then I’ll put it in their prescription glasses and the school will say what’s going on here this this child is completely different

Sam Berne (02:17.324)

because they’re now connecting their vision to their brain and body where they weren’t before. And when you go for the exam and they put the drops in your eyes, what they’re doing is they’re paralyzing the muscles we were just working with. So then they prescribe based on the muscles being paralyzed.

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Dr. Sam Berne has been in private practice in New Mexico for over 35 years and where he works with patients to improve their vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University, Doctor of Optometry from Pennsylvania College, and did his postdoctoral work at the Gesell Institute in collaboration with Yale University. He has been awarded The Special Awards for Service from the Behavioral Optometrists in Mexico for his innovative and holistic work with children.

His protocols take a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to health and wellness. He understands and treats the body as one integrated system rather than a collection of independent organs in order to identify and address the root causes of disease. His whole health protocols improve vision and wellness by healing the mind-body-spirit through nutritional protocols, vision therapy, and self-care techniques. This views each person as genetically and biochemically unique and enables the individual to make lifelong improvements to their well-being.

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