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	Bates Method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bates rejected the orthodox view that accommodation was brought about by the action of the ciliary muscle on the eye's crystalline lens[1], and claimed that focus was maintained by varying elongation of the eyeball caused by the extraocular muscles.
		Bates claimed that straining to see at the near-point led to shortening of the eyeball resulting in hypermetropia (farsightedness), and that straining to see at the far-point led to lengthening of the eyeball leading to myopia (nearsightedness).
		Bates believed that it was impossible to consciously relieve the eyes of this tensing, and instead developed his method as a means of effecting subconscious relaxation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bates_Method (2336 words)

	Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine: Bates method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Bates method, popularized in the early twentieth century by ophthalmologist William Horatio Bates, involves the use of therapeutic eye exercises.
		Bates had come to this conclusion after performing eye surgery on cataract patients and finding that some of them could still see distance without glasses even though he had removed the lens from their eyes; therefore, he determined that the lens did not play a role in refractive errors such as myopia.
		Bates believed that eye strain caused vision to deteriorate, and his treatment was simple: like any other muscles, the eye muscles need periods of rest and exercise in order to achieve optimal performance.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2603/is_0001/ai_2603000190 (498 words)

	Bates Method - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Bates developed a theory that people with abnormal vision used their eyes differently than people with normal vision, then created a system designed to help people to relearn the right vision habits and to unlearn the wrong habits.
		Advocates state that the Bates Method emphasizes the practice of deliberate movements of the body ("swinging") with relaxed awareness of vision; cupping or palming the eyes with the hands; attempting to see or visualize "perfect fl"; and exposing the eye to as much full daylight as possible.
		Advocates of the Bates Method believe that excessive tension of the extraocular muscles changes the shape of the eyeball to cause decreased vision, and that by understanding this cause of decreased vision is essential to understanding how it may be improved.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=447382 (1377 words)

	Bates (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bates is a popular surname, originating in Scotland and the North of England.
		Bates is also a college in Maine, founded in 1855.
		Bates is a brand of footwear owned by Wolverine Worldwide.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bates (117 words)

	Bates Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Bates method recognises that visual problems are rarely static: vision is a dynamic process and needs to be worked with in a dynamic way.
		Bates teachers are more interested in people than in eyes, and work in an educational way.
		Bates teachers come from all walks of life: they are all people who have been successful in other fields, and who have experienced the benefit of the method for themselves.
	britishregister.tripod.com /batesmethod (765 words)

	Sight Without Glasses
		Bates' methods of photographing the eyes were unique with him and he was doing work seventy-five years ago that hasn't yet been adequately duplicated by modern scientific investigators.
		Bates held that darkness is the biggest danger to the eyes, though he did think that sudden contrasts of light-a change from light to dark or from dark to light-are in themselves beneficial.
		In fact, Bates recommended that his patients go to the movies in the early days of the so-called "flickers," for he believed the flickering image on the screen was actually an exercise for the eye and.
	www.healing.org /only-18.html (3401 words)

	Tom Quackenbush Sheet
		Bates stated that errors of refraction (including nearsighted, farsighted, astigmatism, so called presbyopia) and strabismus, are caused by excessive strain in the six external eye muscles.
		Bates proved that blur, (other than from diseases and accidents), is caused by a person acquiring improper, subconscious, strained vision habits, which occur during a period of stress.
		Bates wrote in the preface of his 1920, "...theories, often stated as facts, have served to obscure the truth...
	www.visionlady.com /Quackenbush.html (2277 words)

	The Vision Improvement Site - improve your eyesight naturally!
		The Bates method is a system of natural vision improvement invented by William H. Bates, M. in the early part of this century.
		Bates postulated that one of the main culprits of bad eyesight is rigidity of the eyes.
		Bates concluded that the stress of the eyesight examination had a detrimental effect on one's vision.
	web.singnet.com.sg /~hanwen/bates.htm (1655 words)

	Bates Method Information
		The Bates Method for Improving Eyesight is a method discovered at the beginning of this century by Dr. W.
		Bates, M.D. (1865-1931), a prominent American ophthalmologist, and developed by him and his followers to improve sight and restore natural habits of seeing, which have been lost through strain, tension and the resulting misuse of the eyes.
		Bates was a graduate of Cornell University and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.
	www.altguide.com /therapy/info/bates.html (1313 words)

	About Dr William H Bates
		Dr Bates became a successful and well-respected eye surgeon in New York, where he was an instructor of ophthalmology at the New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital from 1886 to 1891.
		Dr Bates found that the eye is never constantly the same, that refractive error changed momentarily, that mental strain and tension increased it and relaxation decreased it.
		Dr Bates went on to formulate a new set of theories about eyesight and he developed what later became known as 'the Bates Method' to help people to improve their sight.
	www.visionsofjoy.org /AboutBates.htm (1142 words)

	Imagination Blindness - Bates Method Introduction - How it Began
		The founder of the Method was a medical doctor by the name of William Horatio Bates.
		By 1913, he began treating with his methods patients with not only what was recognized as "functional" myopia but also what was held to be incurable "organic" myopia, showing those cases to be functional as well.
		Bates, W.H. "A suggestion of an operation to correct astigmatism." Archives of Ophthalmology.
	www.iblindness.org /intro/howbegan.html (1274 words)

	the bates method - omaha's heartland healing center
		It was in 1898 that Bates became an intern at Columbia hospital.
		Bates believed that vision problems are the result of two primary factors: mental strain and misuse of the muscles that shape the eye for focus.
		Bates believed that correct seeing is a natural ability and should be done with ease.
	www.heartlandhealing.com /pages/archive/bates_method (1738 words)

	Bates Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In part, Bates' theory is based on an incorrect view of accommodation; Bates steadfastly denied that the crystalline lens changed shape during accommodation.
		Bates developed a number of exercises to relieve the problem, and other eye problems as well (glaucoma and cataract).
		Bates made extravagant and unsupported claims for his system, claims t hat were publicly endorsed by a number of influential people.
	www.bio.brandeis.edu /~sekuler/senpro/topic_3_stuff/bates_method.html (396 words)

	The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly: The Fly-By: Fly-By Feature: Can You See Me Now?
		He'll be at the Unity Church of Memphis on October 18th for a workshop on the Bates Method of vision correction.
		Another Bates Method exercise is called palming, which is done by placing warm palms over closed eyes and concentrating on sending healing energy through the hands into the eyes.
		William H. Bates, an early ophthalmologist and the founder of the method, was fired from a New York hospital when he released the findings of his research to the American Medical Association.
	www.memphisflyer.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:4490 (840 words)

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		Those who follow the Bates method to improve their eyesight, better their vision, not because of the Bates method, but because they pay attention to their eyesight improvement.
		Bates contends that most visual defects are the result of mental strain and staring.
		Bates taught his students to develop new habits of relaxed vision, without the distortions caused by strain and staring.
	www.healself.org /eyesight.html (526 words)

	The Bates Method - www.Central-Fixation.com
		The Bates Method refers to the method of curing imperfect eyesight, originated by William H. Bates M. D., and documented in his book Perfect Sight Without Glasses and in his Better Eyesight magazines, as well as articles published in various medical journals.
		As the method is educational in nature, it is difficult to guarantee a person's success or failure with it.
		The focus of the Bates Method is at removing mental strain that underlies the physical tension.
	www.central-fixation.com /batesmethod.shtml (674 words)

	Outlook Insight - The Bates Method for Natural Eyesight
		Bates began to doubt what he himself had taught at the New York Post-Graduate school of Ophthalmology after observing that all people with normal eyesight use their eyes a certain way, and all people with imperfect eyesight depart from these good habits.
		One prominent New York ophthalmologist insisted to me the Bates Method was a form of hypnosis, despite the fact that Bates explicitly mentions hypnosis as ineffective for improving eyesight.
		Bates replied, "Precisely!" 99% of children are born with normal eyesight, yet 70% of American adults today have blur.
	www.outlook-insight.com /improvingeyesight.htm (3513 words)

	The Bates Method
		The Bates method is a controversial system that is intended to improve vision through a set of practices that are intended to relax the eyes.
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	www.squidoo.com /bates (432 words)

	William Bates: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Horatio Bates (1860-1931) was a physician who developed what is now known as the Bates Method Bates Method quick summary:
		For the general public and the orthodox ophthalmology the bates method is a controversial system of techniques that is intended to improve vision through a set of practices...
		Alternative medicine broadly describes methods and practices used in place of, or in addition to, conventional medical treatments....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_bates.htm (499 words)

	the holistic centre - bates method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Bates Method teaches people how to improve their eyesight without lenses or surgery.
		Dr Bates went on to formulate a new set of theories about eyesight and he developed a method to help people to improve their sight.
		The theories developed by Dr Bates are continuing to be taught all over the world, with professional teachers in many countries helping people to see better without glasses, lenses or disease.
	www.holistic-centre.com /therapy/bates_method.htm (616 words)

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		William Bates, an American Ophthalmologist at the turn of the century, noticed that his nearsighted and farsighted patients kept returning to him for ever stronger glasses.
		Using the Bates Method we teach techniques such as visualization and watching the breath to calm and focus the mind.
		Bates was the first ophthalmologist to use the interrelationship of the eye and the mind to improve vision.
	www.cambridgehealthassociates.com /pdf/bates_method.doc (588 words)

	Ψ FREE Bates method & FREE palm reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Bates Method is a controversial system of practices that are claimed to improve vision and other ocular disorders by eliminating "mental strain" and restoring the "natural habits of seeing".
		Although rejected by mainstream ophthalmology as ineffective, many people claim to have been helped by the method.
		His theory that the eye does not focus by changing the power of the lens, but rather by elongating the eyeball, through use of the extraocular oblique muscles, is contradicted by mainstream opthalmology.
	www.handresearch.com /hand/abc/bates-method.htm (340 words)

	BBC Inside Out - Natural Vison Correction
		Known as the Bates method, the technique, which is "educational" rather than medical, involves relaxation, eye-exercises and eye-care.
		Users of the method claim to reduce the magnitude of their lenses and in some cases, become entirely spectacle free.
		Many who practise the Bates Method however, remain convinced that their vision is improving, but for Jess - it's back to the glasses.
	www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/east/series6/vision_correction.shtml (856 words)

	Eye Exercises and Resources to Improve Vision
		As he treated his patients, Bates noticed that contrary to what he was taught in optometry school, people's vision did vary from day to day; astigmatisms did change or disappear.
		Bates had been taught that vision problems stem from malformed eyeballs, or lenses, or even from the muscles of the eyes themselves being too long or too short.
		Whenever it occurs to you that you've been spending too much time staring at that monitor right in front of your face, purposely shift your vision to look at the weave of the fabric on your sleeve, or the poster on the wall, or the tree across the street.
	www.folksonline.com /folks/hh/lm/vision.htm (965 words)

	Imagination Blindness - A Site Dedicated to the Bates Method of Vision Improvement
		The Bates Method is a natural method to restore eyesight that was discovered in the early 20th century by ophthalmologist William H. Bates.
		Conditions for which glasses are normally prescribed such as myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), astigmatism, and even presbyopia (old-age sight) have been eliminated through this method, as well as conditions such as strabismus and amblyopia.
		In this way, these methods have always been in use and only need to be relearned again when there are problems.
	www.iblindness.org (466 words)

	Fix sight problems using The Bates method
		Dr William Bates, a New York ophthalmologist practising at the beginning of the 20th century, attributed many eye problems to stress, tension and laziness and devised a series of eye exercises to improve eyesight without resorting to lenses or surgery.
		Bates' exercises aim to 're-educate' the eye so that it adjusts its focus more efficiently - what he called 'central fixation.' The eye muscles need to be able to move freely in order to make the tiny adaptations necessary to centre on the object of your vision.
		But, according to Bates, many people habitually strain their eyes by keeping them in a fixed position, 'staring' at a whole scene rather than allowing constant movement.
	ivillage.co.uk /health/ghealth/dental/articles/0,,181038_182664,00.html (375 words)

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