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Some time ago I've been told that push-ups on your fingers (instead on fists) can affect eye-sight. The explanation was not clear (something about a lot of nerves in fingertips and pressure on them).

According to some teachers of Chinese systems, the fingertips should not be trained at all, as in Chinese medicine over-stimulation of the fingertips can affect one's eyesight.

Blade forum - thread about doing push-ups on fingertips

Doing push-ups on tips of fingers stresses and damages meridian pathways (this is oriental medicine) and may damage health and generally speaking,eyes.

Martial Talk - thread about finger push-ups

Is it at least partly true ?

Wertilq
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    Why the martial arts tag? – nico Mar 10 '12 at 15:25
  • @nico, the claim is common in martial arts, where people do a lot of push ups and are exposed to chinese medicine. In fact, both links above are from martial arts forums. – Sklivvz Mar 11 '12 at 09:27
  • According to [this](http://www.myspace.com/glenducharme/photos/12326397#{%22ImageId%22%3A12326397}), I should've seen way more monks wearing glasses. Then again, glasses are for the weak. ;) – Cees Timmerman Sep 26 '12 at 07:41
  • @Sklivvz The question is unrelated to martial arts though. Unrelated to Sklivvz; the question contains references to forum, forum posts have bigger chance to disappear, if the forum die, or someone delete the post or anything. Links are more in risk zone for link rot. – Wertilq May 08 '13 at 13:45
  • The [tag:exercise] does seem to fit better than [tag:martial-arts] since I've heard that over-straining in general (i.e. not just finger pushups) can also cause problems with eyesight. – rjzii May 08 '13 at 14:03
  • I did remove the martial arts tag. – Wertilq May 08 '13 at 14:04

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