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Bates method, who has time for all of those exercises anyway? Not me!
'''Bates method''', who has time for all of those exercises anyway? Not me! Especially when it doesn't even work!


Bates method practitioners believe that using [[eye exercise]]s to relieve [[eye strain]] will reverse [[myopia]]. This is false; relieving strain of the [[ciliary muscle]] will treat [[pseudomyopia]], but will not treat [[lens-induced myopia]], which is responsible for most myopia.
Bates method practitioners believe that using [[eye exercise]]s to relieve [[eye strain]] will reverse [[myopia]]. This is false; relieving strain of the [[ciliary muscle]] will treat [[pseudomyopia]], but will not treat [[lens-induced myopia]], which is responsible for most myopia. However Bates method can't even relief the ciliary muscles, so it is utterly useless.


==The exercises==
To fully understand why Bates does not work you must understand that there are two types of muscles of the eye, [[extraocular muscle]]s and ciliary muscles. Exercises strengthen extraocular muscles but they are only responsible for rotating your eyeballs. Ciliary muscles on the otheer hand keep things in focus. However, no exercises affect them, as they are smooth muscles which are not consciously controlled (like your gut muscles). Since you cant give your gut muscles a workout, you can't give your ciliary muscles a workout either. So eye exercises have no benefit to reversing myopia.
 
The other contributor to myopia is eyeball elongation. No exercises can shorten the eyeballs, unless you consider smashing the eyes an exercise. Even smashing the eyes won't shorten the eyes so you don't need to smash them, '''especially''' when [[Jake Steiner|Jake]] has already invented EndMyopia!
 
 
'''In short, forget Bates. Do EndMyopia.'''
==The useless exercises==
===Palming===
===Palming===
Palming is placing hands over the eyeballs, with the intention of reducing [[myopia]]. This is a [[Bates method]] practice that can be disregarded, as it does not address the causality of how eyesight improves.
Palming is placing hands over the eyeballs, with the intention of reducing [[myopia]]. This is a [[Bates method]] practice that can be disregarded, as it does not address the causality of how eyesight improves.

Revision as of 17:56, 11 June 2020

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Bates method, who has time for all of those exercises anyway? Not me! Especially when it doesn't even work!

Bates method practitioners believe that using eye exercises to relieve eye strain will reverse myopia. This is false; relieving strain of the ciliary muscle will treat pseudomyopia, but will not treat lens-induced myopia, which is responsible for most myopia. However Bates method can't even relief the ciliary muscles, so it is utterly useless.

To fully understand why Bates does not work you must understand that there are two types of muscles of the eye, extraocular muscles and ciliary muscles. Exercises strengthen extraocular muscles but they are only responsible for rotating your eyeballs. Ciliary muscles on the otheer hand keep things in focus. However, no exercises affect them, as they are smooth muscles which are not consciously controlled (like your gut muscles). Since you cant give your gut muscles a workout, you can't give your ciliary muscles a workout either. So eye exercises have no benefit to reversing myopia.

The other contributor to myopia is eyeball elongation. No exercises can shorten the eyeballs, unless you consider smashing the eyes an exercise. Even smashing the eyes won't shorten the eyes so you don't need to smash them, especially when Jake has already invented EndMyopia!


In short, forget Bates. Do EndMyopia.

The useless exercises

Palming

Palming is placing hands over the eyeballs, with the intention of reducing myopia. This is a Bates method practice that can be disregarded, as it does not address the causality of how eyesight improves.

Like many Bates method practices, palming may be used to temporarily reduce eye strain. However, it is always better to resolve the core causes of eye strain, like uncorrected vision and bad computer habits.

Swinging

Swinging is one of the exercises advocated by the Bates Method.

There could be some rationalisation for it : by allowing the Visual cortex to see different focal planes moving relative to each other, it gains information about the relative distances of those planes, which it would not otherwise have (due to Myopic blur). It might be able to use that extra information in some useful way.

It would do no harm to give it a try while you're looking out the window anyway, while observing the 20-20-20-Rule. Let us know if you find it helpful. If nothing else, it will give the neighbours across the road something to talk about.

You could try chanting a mantra at the same time. I can't think of a rationalisation for that, but it might entertain your cat.

The Myopia is Mental method extends the idea of swinging to make yourself aware of objects moving relative to each other as you walk. That is not dissimilar to the rationalisation above - it could conceivably give some additional depth information.