Difference between revisions of Lens-induced myopia

A core tenant of EM is that doing [[near work]] in lenses designed for [[distance work]] causes myopia progression.  Even if hyperopic blur is not induced by the lenses, the [[accommodation]] system is being constantly stressed and this encourages [[eye axial lengthening]].  This is supported by the fact that both [[bifocals]] and [[multifocals]], which allow the eye to use less accommodation to do near work, are protective against myopia progression {{Citation needed}}

It is arguable if near work induced myopia is the same mechanism as lens induced myopia.  Both are cases where you are doing work closer than your corrected vision is designed to do, but obviously near work induced myopia can happen before the first pair of glasses, and the term is more heavily associated with [[Pseudomyopia]].