Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Funny how I've asked two different eye doctors if there was some sort of exercising I could do for the old eyes, and one said " no " and the other said it would be a waste of time. I guess they put job security above their commitment to true eye health, eh? Chaunce --------------------------------- New Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 5) DON'T wear sunglasses (same reason, I assume) I have heard that sunglasses only block out a few of the " harmful " types of rays. Like most only block UV rays. I do not know what the other rays are called but they are allowed though the sunglasses. So the eye is more dilated (because of the dark lenses) and absorbing more of the harmful rays! Yikes, not good! To allow the iris to work as it was created to work blocks out the major part of the harmful rays (better than any sunglasses) and strengthens the eye while better protecting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Interesting fact. When I was in PT for neck pain. They would have me move my eyes to the right and then to the left. This would exercise the neck muscles similar to turning the neck from side to side but not hurt the neck. Try it. Hold your head straight ahead, then look over to your left. Hold it for 20 seconds, then do the other side the same way. You may not really feel it then but you will some later! Kimi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.Jremedies.com Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:58/KJV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Developmental or behavioral optometrists take extra studies in how vision develops in children. Google the Optometric Extension Program in California. My school is the only one I know of that has an optometric clinic right in the school. That¹s because how well you see relates to how well you read. I don¹t know of anyone working with adults. Dr. Zwicky used to, but he retired. The optometrist here said she would be willing to write a reduced prescription if people wanted to try it. She¹s not trained in adults, so exercises are up to each person. Dr. Zwicky thought VT was helpful for adults. He said that it is far easier to get results for children because the brain is growing so rapidly. We do the exercises in groups and the kids think they are playing games. We run a summer program called Boost Up. Kids come in and do a half day session for a few weeks. We test reading skills before and after. Most kids make a several month reading gain and we are not teaching reading. We are playing games to help them improve sensory pathways. That being said, I¹m 52 and just had my prescription reduced. Eyes are run by six muscles and if you don¹t use them, they atrophy. Just like having a cast on your arm. Good visual hygiene means not staring at the computer for 8 hours. Take a few minutes and focus right, left, up, down, in and out every half hour or so. I¹m near sided because I read all the time. Part of the change in my vision is because we just got this hundred acre property and I¹m climbing up and down hills and focusing farther out. I¹m also eating better. Kathy On 4/13/06 8:23 AM, " Chaunce Stanton " <chaunce_s@...> wrote: > Funny how I've asked two different eye doctors if there was some sort of > exercising I could do for the old eyes, and one said " no " and the other said > it would be a waste of time. I guess they put job security above their > commitment to true eye health, eh? > > Chaunce > > > --------------------------------- > New Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save > big. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 >> The Bates eye exercise technique is so good it's ILLEGAL in some states! What is the Bates technique? My friend Amy has a chart with a design that is allegedly Tibetan. It looks like a cart wheel with many notches and " cogs. " You are supposed to follow the edges of the design with your eyesight, as if you were tracing it, and it supposedly helps strengthen the eyes. Wonder if this Bates technique is similar. ~Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 What is the Bates technique? Redwing Books, which primarily serves the Traditional Chinese Medicine folks also has a few books by him or on this topic. Bates Method of Better Eyesight, by Bates Better Eyesight-The Complete Magazines of Willian H. Bates, by Quackenbush Relearning to See, by Quackenbush http://www.redwingbooks.com/ Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Fun idea for a swap. At the next swap have everyone bring babies. Human babies are born monocular. They use one eye and then the other. Kind of like a goldfish. All babies in every culture roll over, belly crawl, then get up on hands and knees and rock, then begin to creep on hands and knees. After they have several weeks of creeping, they develop binocular vision. Take the babies and shine a pen light directly in their eyes, move it slowly to the nose and then out again. The reflection of the pen light is in the center of each pupil if they have binocular vision. The adults doing or watching this should have their head level with the babies. It takes a bit of practice to see this and if you are standing above them what you see gets distorted. In newborns, the reflection of the light will be in the center of one pupil and the side of the other pupil. In babies who are creeping well, the reflection will be in the center of both eyes. Another fun fact, human babies are born with very little hip socket. By crawling and creeping they literally grind in the socket. ny jump ups, walkers, playpens should be used sparingly. Make a safe room for babies to move. I showed Will pictures of a group of doctors who went all over the world doing the pen light test. In some remote areas where they didn¹t put babies on the ground because of snakes, they had no near point vision. These tribes were wonderful at far point vision and hunted with bow and arrow. Their bodies were incredibly strong and healthy. They had no near point vision and no written language. Kathy > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 DON P, this is your lucky day! I've got a special price on that vision recovery kit and if you respond within 20 minutes, I will sell it to you for the low, low, low price of $999.99! Everyone else at Trad-Foods, because you are SPECIAL, can buy my new special sooper- dooper holistic kit for the new special low price of $899.99 but... YOU MUST ACT NOW. Pick up the phone and call me now for this once in a lifetime offer! SERIOUSLY THOUGH, the Mercola course is still a mystery to me, I've only heard it described and have yet to begin it. I tried the Bates course 2-3 times in the past and the exercises are super boring and very time consuming. I'm thinking this one will be hard but much improved. You DO get every print journal that BATES ever wrote (about 10# of paper) the entire QUACKENBUSH program (another 10#) plus one other one that I can't remember. Mercola capitalizes on these techniques, modernizes them and combines it with the SUPER NUTRITION, PHYSICAL EXERCISE, and EMOTIONAL HEALING. Without the latter, you are quite unlikely to have success. This is a guaranteed plan by the way. BONUS Vision quality is directly related to MENTAL ACTIVITY. The more acute your sensory perception, the more acute the thinking. I meant to ask him how this applies to blind people. Will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2006 Report Share Posted April 14, 2006 Last thing on this topic. I never wore contacts because it felt like putting plastic directly on my eye. A personal opinion. Many of the contact lens solutions used to have thimerosal in them. Thimerosal is mercury and one of the things people are worried about with children who seemed normal and regressed into autism. I¹m not sure the mercury is out of contact lens products. I went to a big chain store and looked. I saw bottles that said thimerosol free on the outside of the package. Others where people had to buy the bottle and read the insert after purchasing. I also talked to one of our optometrists. She told me that the thimerosal used to be put in the contact solution (putting mercury right on your eye) and many people had reactions, most was removed. We need to read labels. MN is the first state to have a mercury sniffing dog available for schools. The dogs name is Clancy and he is from the humane society. He is a middle aged Lab and available to your children¹s school through the Pollution Control Agency. I saw him on TV a couple weeks ago. Great dog! We have not yet had him out to our school. I think the children would have a blast with watching Clancy do his work. Kathy > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Any follow-up comments on this topic? My, my myopia magnifies moment to moment. It seems I have to do something, I've resisted bifocals so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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