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- From: M20614@mwvm.mitre.org (Hugh Pritchard)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Myopia
- Message-ID: <168A411113.M20614@mwvm.mitre.org>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 00:25:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.195854.2329@draper.com> <1992Nov16.232357.13652@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov16.232357.13652@netcom.com>
- kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski) writes:
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- >In <1992Nov16.195854.2329@draper.com> storch@draper.com (Joel Storch) writes:
- >
- >>It seems that the opthomoligists are mainly concerned with eye disease and
- >>not preventative measures against myopia....
- >
- >You'd find reading about the Bates Method interesting.
-
- Bates wrote at the beginning of the century. His ideas have been shown to be
- wrong. He thought the exterior eye muscles might be trained and strengthened
- to compress the eyeball, thus bringing the retina closer to the actual focal
- point of a myopic eye. Turns out that these muscles (6 of 'em) are not
- strong enough to deform the eye substantially. However, eye exercises for
- AMBLYOPIA may be another story....
-
- [Not an M.D., but a lifelong ophthalmology patient]
-
- ** Hugh Pritchard, hapritch@mitre.org, 703/883-6616
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