posted on January 18, 2008 03:18:29 PM newAsk your eye doctor about the BATES METHOD...see what the response is after you pay for an $80 office visit and they tell you your eyes haven't changed.
WHAT kind of: "eye doctor?"
For 30 years, I worked with EYE SURGEONS (M.D.s BOARD CERTIFIED OPHTHALMOLOGISTS) and watched their never-ending struggle against SNAKE-OIL; HOKUM; and BULL-SHEET foisted upon the public by a certain type of "eye doctor"
SCIENCE is SCIENCE and BULLSHEET is BULLSHEET
Everyday, my eyes "sees" the sun traveling thru the sky...People of SCIENCE & RATIONALITY were once BURNED AT THE STAKE for the observing that the eyes were not truthful...
Risks
Most of the costs of a visual training program are not covered by health insurance although cost of prescription eyeglasses may be covered by a vision insurance plan.
Conclusions
There is level I evidence that visual training for control of accommodation has no effect on myopia. In other studies (level II/III evidence), an improvement in subjective visual acuity for patients with myopia who have undertaken visual training has been shown but no corresponding physiological cause for the improvement has been demonstrated. The improvements in myopic patients noted in these studies have been postulated to be due to improvements in interpreting blurred images, changes in mood or motivation, creation of an artificial contact lens by tear film changes, or a pinhole effect from miosis of the pupil.
It is not clear if patients purchasing these programs for use at home outside of the controlled environment of a research study will have any improvement in their vision.
No evidence was found that visual training has any effect on the progression of myopia. No evidence was found that visual training improves visual function for patients with hyperopia or astigmatism. No evidence was found that visual training improves vision lost through disease processes such as age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, or diabetic retinopathy.
The only risk attributable to visual training is financial.
posted on January 19, 2008 09:48:02 AM new
yes, thank God the sever coughing jags have stopped... i still have an earache and scratchy throat though, but this is the best I've felt since Christmas week.
posted on January 19, 2008 02:21:11 PM new
Yep, two words - flu shot. I've had too many colds this winter, but no flu at all. The only time I've had the flu is when the flu shot was hard to get a couple of years ago. Other than that one year where I couldn't get a flu shot, I've gotten one every year for some time.
