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Eye Pressure
 Eye pressure, also called intraocular pressure, is the pressure of the aqueous humor inside the eye. It is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) as the convention is. Normal eye pressure is in the range between 10 mm Hg - 21 mm Hg. When this intraocular pressure exceeds 21 mm Hg, it is termed as ocular hypertension.  It doesn't immediately affect the optic nerve or cause glaucoma overnight. In fact, it is the drainage system of the eye, also called the angle, being open or closed that causes ocular hypertension. 
Gonioscopy is the procedure using special contact lenses that examines the drainage angles - also called channels - in the eye to check whether they are open, narrowed, or closed. There are some other eye conditions too, that may result in increased eye pressure. Whatever the reason, permanently increased eye pressure may trigger the onset of glaucoma; hence the need for care is certainly there.
Eye pressure can be reduced either by medications or by laser surgery.  A perfectly healthy human eye, having no problems of either structure or function, can see only one part of everything it looks at, the best; and all other parts relatively worse than that. Such an eye is said to have the most acute vision through central fixation. An eye with any kind of vision problems (which most people have - whether apparent or latent) - loses this central fixation and gets rather economically fixated that may result in an increased eye pressure. The only way out is to get that central fixation back (possible!) through vision therapy. I invite you to subscribe to my weekly E-zine titled Third Eye-zine. This weekly E-zine publishes rare, revolutionary articles which are of real use in the day-to-day life of a common man, covering topics concerning the effect of third eye opening on health, diseases, personality, performance, efficiency, relationship, sex, mind, creativity, passion, business, management, and energy level of a person; apart from its effect on vision correction. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Third Eye Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors my weekly Third Eye Bloglet narrating My Story : My Date with My Body - a bloglet about vision, mind, sex, science, and society. A real interesting reading! In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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