The importance of the Sports Bra is undisputed. In absence of it, it causes damages to the breast and these damages through shock and strain leave permanent effects. However in a recent study, it was found that 41% of women do not wear sports bra during exercising or running.

It was found that most of them had a notion that their normal bras are supportive enough to play sports in. They don’t realise that they might have jogging their way to sagging breasts and could cause even temporary pain and discomfort. Most of the women are unaware of the effect of exercising on their breasts.

In absence of sports bra, the breasts move in an uncontrolled movement straining the fragile tissues and ligaments. This eventually results in chafing and sagging breasts.

A survey was conducted by “Move Active”, a sports bra retailer in Manchester, London, among women from the age of 16-35. They found that women were totally ignorant of the fact; the exercise without wearing sports bra could cause a permanent effect on their breasts. They insisted that women while undertaking exercise should wear sports bra which is as significant as any other sports.

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WHAT IS LASER EYE SURGERY?

Refractive or Laser Eye Surgery (LES) is a laser reshaping of cornea thus changing its focusing power (1), (pictures 1,2). For patients with moderate refractive errors this ambulatory procedure is a quick way to get free of glasses or contact lenses.

Picture 1. Eye doctor performing laser eye surgery
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COST OF LASER EYE SURGERY 

The cost of LES can vary widely but it is rarely under $1,000 per eye (2).

REFRACTIVE ERRORS TO CORRECT WITH LES

The light from an observed object penetrates through the cornea, lens and viscose liquid of the eye globe, refracts, and focuses on retina as an image. In farsightedness - hyperopia the eye globe is too short, and since the lens cannot refract the light from near objects enough, the light will fall behind retina and give a blurred image. In presbyopia (farsightedness of the aged) the lens becomes rigid and cannot refract the light from near objects efficiently, so it will  again focus behind the retina. In nearsightedness (myopia), the eye globe is too long and light from distant objects will focus in front of the retina, so images of distant objects will be blurred. In astigmatism blurred vision is caused by irregularities in the corneal or lens shape (3). All mentioned refractive errors can be corrected with laser eye surgery.

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