Can heavy lifting cause retinal detachment?

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• Nicholas campbell

  08/09/2012

  It depends. Usually, retinal detachment caused by heavy lifting often occurs to people have very serious myopia, also known as nearsightedness. In fact, weightlifting does not cause retinal detachment directly, it is increase the risks. So, for people with strong prescription of myopia, they seldom join in physical labour to avoid injuries of head, leading retinal detachment.

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• Noah james

  08/10/2012

  In general, heavy lifting can not cause detachment, but except people who have high myopia. You had a retinal detachment, your eye ground is not well, so you should try to avoid heavy lifting, because heavy physical labor can easily lead to vitreous opacities, under the external force and vitreous traction, the retinal degeneration is easy to make holes, and then develop into retinal detachment.

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