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im curious. is there a way to know how much accommodation a person has left in their vision? when a high myope over 60 is able to see very close without glasses (the myopia superpower) is that because of accommodation? just curious and thx
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RonAKA Dapperdan7
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No, that is not accommodation, when you take your glasses off and use your myopia to read. The measure of accommodation is the ability to see near when your vision is fully corrected for distance. So if you have contacts or pure distance eyeglasses on (without progressive or bifocal lenses), you have good accommodation when you can read normally at a normal distance (not holding documents away from your eyes.
Dapperdan7 RonAKA
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ah ok. thank you
soks RonAKA
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thats a great definition. "The measure of accommodation is the ability to see near when your vision is fully corrected for distance".
RicG Dapperdan7
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At 60 years or older you should still have between 0.75 and 1.75 Diopters of accomodation. It allows you to see closer than without accomodation.
Do you want to find out how much smaller your range will be without accomodation?
Dapperdan7 RicG
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no. ive always been curious about how to tell you still have accommodation. ron explained it well. that info you gave on how much you should have at 60 seems like it would depend on the individual inam assuming