If your current eyeglasses don't fit properly over your face or correct your vision anymore, you may wonder if there are other types of eyewear you can use that work better for your needs. There are many recent trends in eyewear that may improve your vision in the future, including self-adjusting lenses. Here's how self-adjusting eyeglasses work and tips you can use to improve your vision until self-adjusting eyewear hits the market.

How Do Self-Adjustable Eyeglasses Work and Why?

Usually, you visit your optometrist to adjust the lenses of your eyeglasses. The adjustment process can take time to complete if you developed new problems with your vision, or if you need new eyeglasses altogether. However, a number of developers in eyewear are currently working on eyeglasses you can adjust on your own.

Self-adjustable eyeglasses feature a unique technology made with silicone that allow you to correct and refocus your eyes at any given time. The technology helps you correct nearsightedness, myopia and several other conditions that cause refractive errors in your eyes. Although the eyewear is currently in development for children, teens and young adults, adults may also have a chance to enjoy its benefits in the future.

So, how do self-adjusting eyeglasses work and how do they correct your vision?

One of the problems with refractive error eye conditions is that they change the way your eyes process light. The conditions create these problems because they change the size and functions of your corneas, which pick up or process light. Your corneas should send the rays and fragments of light to your retinas and brain, which translate the light into images.

However, refractive errors distort the light, which makes it difficult for your brain to translate properly. For example, instead of seeing a round, red ball in front of you, the refractive errors in your eyes' tissues may only pick up a fuzzy, dark image. You may develop headaches and eyestrain as you try to focus on the things you see. If the lenses of your current eyeglasses are too weak to correct the distorted light, your symptoms may increase. 

Self-adjusting eyewear is unique in how it functions. You insert a small syringe filled with silicone into a pump on the arms of the eyeglasses. The fluid slowly seeps inside the artificial lenses of the eyewear until it bends or corrects the light filtering through your natural lenses. Once the images in front of you clear up, you remove the syringe. You can adjust the amount of fluid inside the eyeglasses' lenses as many times as you need to do so.

Until the self-adjusting eyeglasses reach mainstream, you can do a few things at home to clear up your distorted images.

What Can You Do to Improve Your Vision?

One of the most important things you can do right now is see an optometrist for care. If you need new eyeglasses to replace your old eyewear, it's essential that you obtain them. You can permanently damage the tissues in your eyes if they become weak or diseased. Refractive errors may increase your risk factors for open-angle glaucoma in the future. A number of research studies reveal that there may be a connection between the two eye conditions, so it's important to protect your eyes now.

In addition, massaging the fluids from around your eyes may reduce the strain, headaches and other symptoms you experience each day. You can do so by rubbing a dime-sized amount of coconut or vitamin E oil into the skin around your eyes. Gently massage the oil into your skin with the pads of your fingertips for five minutes a day. The massage releases the fluids in your face, which eases the pressure in your forehead, cheeks and eye sockets.

For more information about your eyeglasses, contact your optometrist today at a clinic like Envision Eyecare.