Yoga Ocular Exercises to Maintain Eye Health During Work and Distance Learning in the New Normal Era

Ayunda Puteri Rizanti

doi:10.23917/bik.v14i1.13363

Abstract

The COVID-19 outbreak is a challenge for the world of work and education to change all activities from face-to-face system into remote system with internet and technology-based online system. These online activities lead to increased exposure from digital screen such as computers and mobile phones in the society. Viewing a computer or digital screen often makes our eyes work harder, this high visual demands of digital screen display makes many people susceptible to the development of vision-related symptoms. This article aims to determine the effect of yoga ocular exercises on eye fatigue and increase eye health The method we used was a literature study that focused on yoga ocular interventions in overcoming eye fatigue with databases in the form of PubMed, Willey, Proquest and, Google Scholar published in 2015-2020. Through a review of 8 selected articles, the results showed that yoga ocular practice provides benefits in the form of reduce eye fatigue, relax the mind, prevent asthenopia symptoms, improve binocular vision function by increasing the efficiency of eye motility muscles, and also reduce the intraocular pressure in glaucoma patients. Through the review, it can be seen that yoga ocular practice can prevent vision problems and maintain eye health in the new normal era

Highlights

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things that affect all activities carried out by humans, one of which is replacing human contact with electronic connections
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of eye yoga exercises on eye fatigue due to the increased length of time using gadgets during the new normal era in COVID-19 pandemic. This literature search uses searching methods from journals or original research, databases in the form of PubMed, Willey, Proquest and Google Scholar that relates to Yoga Ocular Exercise and it function for maintain eye health during work and distance learning using keywords: eye fatigue, yoga ocular, COVID-19, distance learning
Results from this study indicate a significant decrease of IOP after yoga ocular exercise

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Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things that affect all activities carried out by humans, one of which is replacing human contact with electronic connections. The emergence of the COVID - 19 pandemic and the worldwide lockdown was immediately followed by a drastic increase in the amount of time spent on these gadgets. Online learning and work processes become routine for children and adults to spend most of the time (8-12 hours per day) a ending e-classes, meetings, and other work in front of computers or mobile screens (Munsamy & Che y, 2020). Electronic devices cause damage by emi ing high-energy short-wave currents that can penetrate the eye and can eventually contribute to photochemical damage to retinal cells, making a person susceptible to a variety of eye problems ranging from dry eye to eye fatigue to age-related macular degeneration (Munsamy & Che y, 2020). Eye fatigue causes clinical manifestations include throbbing or pain around the eye and behind the eyeball, vision double, blurred vision, difficulty in focusing vision, sore eyes, redness, sore and watery eyes, headache, sometimes accompanied by nausea, aches and easy emotions (Novia, 2018)

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