Dr. Bates Method - Cures poor Eyesight, anyone tried this?
I be reading up on Dr. Bates method and theory of how the eye works. Anyonetried it, and has it worked. It have been promoted on mercola.com, mercola is a great doctor.
The main excerise involves palming the eyes and relaxation technique
Answer: I guess it works for some people http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthre...
I personally own the book by Bates (if u want, I'll send it to you as i don't use it) and I thought I would get down to fully practising the technique but just don't seem to grasp down to doing it.
basically i find that the technique takes too much time and commitment for me to amend my eyesight to any significant degree. and since life is short and time is precious, i'd a bit wear glasses than give up my time.
although reading a book by Barnes on the method have made me appreciate how much better it is to not wear glasses if u can avoid it, and i haven't worn my glasses for more than 2 years very soon (except for driving), i find that it is an impairment to the quality of my life within some ways to deliberately keep myself shortsighted and not be capable of recognise people across the street when i could just put on my goggles.
generally i do find that when my eyes feel tired, that purely covering them up (palming) for a few minutes helps and in certainty i can see clearer after that, but that's just a short-term temporary nouns to my tired eyes rather than an improvement contained by my eyesight as it is. but if the principle is there, i guess if i practised the technique properly, it could improve my eyesight.
i also totally adopt the premise by bates that our eyesight isn't static. i know this because when i went on holiday, away from the uk to a nice sunny place in asia, where on earth i ate better food, spent more time outside, more time resting, less time on the computer / watching tv / reading books, my eyesight had better very much when i returned to the uk. but then i picked up on my usual routine again and my eyesight go back to as it was.
also i be part of a dr. bates fan group on yahoo or msn (i can't remember which), and they did a poll to ask whether the method have worked for your shortsightedness and for most people on there it hadn't..
This scam have been around since the early 20th century.. Every few decades somebody re-introduces it as " groundbreaking brand new treatment, throw away your glasses." Bates was in reality an opthalmologist who had a head injury, suffered amnesia and disappeared for a while and next reappeared with his "system" if my memory serves me correctly (so oodles health frauds and scams to hang on to track of, I may have the details wrong)
There is no evidence it works at all, and no grounds to think it would help if one in reality understands how the eye sees.
It is a classic bag of quackery. Quackwatch has a good summary article on it, and Martin Garnder have wriiten about in a few of his books on condition fraud
http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/bates.ht...
FYI...Mercola is a quack too.
Mercola is NOT a "great doctor"!! He is an idiot and a quack.
The Bates method is useless nonsense and does not work.