Why Children Experience Eye Fatigue

Series Summary

Massage therapy is a practice with a multiplicity of benefits. Whether it’s a quick rubdown or a full-body treatment, the human touch has practical applications for promoting both physical and emotional well-being. Massage is performed with the use of motion, pressure, tension and vibration on certain areas of the body such as painful or stressed muscles and joints. This allows a release of tension and a return to a homeostatic condition. Beyond general stress relief, massage encourages physical and emotional healing by improving circulation. In this free video series on massage, childcare specialist Tina Allen demonstrates how to massage a child suffering from eye fatigue. Allen discusses eye fatigue, explains a few possible reasons for how it develops and reveals a few techniques for massaging the forehead, temples, eyebrows, eyelids and face. Watch these videos and learn to massage a child with eye fatigue effectively today.

Video Transcript

"Children may experience eye fatigue for a number of reasons. It could be that they're watching TV a little too much. Maybe playing video games, a little more often as our friend Rile is here. Today what we're going to do is look at doing massage and some massage strokes that might be helpful if your child maybe experiencing eye fatigue. They may also experience eye fatigue if there's a diagnosis maybe that they haven't received, maybe they need glasses. And we're not sure of that yet. Or maybe, they're doing their homework with not enough lights or reading with not enough light can cause eye strain, which in turn, would then cause eye fatigue. So while we're doing massage today, that's we will be looking at, how to massage a child that may have eye fatigue and how to alleviate some of those symptoms."