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- From: terryk@encore.com (Terence M. Kelleher)
- Subject: Re: Bates therapy & lazer glasses
- Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:30:30 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: ted@dgbt.doc.ca's message of Wed, 23 Dec 92 20:15:05 GMT
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- >>In article <1992Dec23.201505.25295@dgbt.doc.ca>, ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec) writes:
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- Ted> This Bates thing has been around for 50 years that I know about, and
- Ted> probably a lot longer than that. Surely, if there was something to
- Ted> it, there should be lots of evidence by now. If not, why not?
- Ted> --
- Ted> -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Ted> Ted Grusec - Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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- In the book _20/20 Is Not Enough_ (1989) by Dr. Seiderman and Dr. Marcus,
- they say:
-
- "For some, "vision therapy" may call up the image of eye
- exercises, with the implication that it somehow strengthens our eys.
- The idea of excersise is misleading. (Today's vision therapy should
- not be confused with the routines prescribed by the "Bates Method"
- that was popular several decades ago.) The muscles of our eyes are
- anywhere from fifty to one hundred times as strong as they need to be
- to do the work we ask them: we need no vision push-ups."
-
- And:
-
- "A school of thought that did believe myopia could be cured
- was based on the theories of the American ophthalmologist William
- Bates. In his 1918 book _Better Eyesight Without Glasses_, Bates
- prescribed a series of visual training exercises. The Bates method
- was popularized by Aldous Huxley in his bestselling book _The Art of
- Seeing_. The method enjoyed a vogue in the 1940's, but most people
- found the training too long and tedious and the results too uncertain
- to stay with it. Its validity was never scientifically established."
-
-
-
- So, the Bates thing has actually been around for better than 70 years,
- and if Seiderman and Marcus are to be believed, is based on
- strengthening of eye muscles rather than on refinement of the control
- of those muscles.
-
- This book, by the way, does stress methods of vision therapy. It
- gives 27 cases of patients who were aided in vision correction through
- therapy. They also supply an 800 number for the "Binocular Vision
- Associates", who can provide names of eye doctors who offer vision
- therapy.. 1-800-245-2773.
-
- I have no experience with any of this, other than reading the book
- quite some time ago.
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