Laser Eye Surgery or Bates Method Therapy for Myopia?

asked 2 years ago by ANONYMUS 11 in albania
Latest answer by Mark Golden, MD
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Tags: eyes, side effects

Is there any different cure for curing myopia except for laser surgery and wearing glasses? I have heard of Bates method therapy but I have not practiced it yet. Is this method effective and does it have any side effect? What about laser surgery? Will I be better off if I have the surgery done instead? I am 22 years old and have -3.00 D for the right eye and -3.50 D for the left eye.

5 answers to Laser Eye Surgery or Bates Method Therapy for Myopia?

Can exercises reverse nearsightedness?

In the back of some magazines and on the Internet it is possible to find advertisements for methods of correcting nearsightedness by an expensive set of eye exercises. A nearsighted person has an eye that is either too long or too steep. In the same way that exercises will not make a foot smaller, there are no exercises that can make you less nearsighted.

Mark Golden, MD
Chicago Ophthalmologist

There are many different ways to treat myopia

There are many different ways to treat myopia – glasses, contact lenses, LASIK, intraocular lenses to name the more common methods. Laser eye surgery can be considered more permanent. Remember that at age 22 your eyes may not be through changing, so any treatment may require further fine-tuning in the future. One of the many beauties of laser vision correction is that we can usually perform laser enhancements if the eyes do change.

Christopher Coad, MD
New York Ophthalmologist

www.lasikdoctornyc.com

Bates method does not work. Period

Think about it -- if there was a simple solution to needing glasses, it would not be a controversy, but rather a multi-billion dollar business. Um, like LASIK! If it sounds too good to be true....

Benjamin Ticho, MD
Chicago Ophthalmologist

LASIK versus Visual Training

I will say up front that I don't know much about visual training. If you think about the optics of your nearsightedness you might catch on as to why training is not a permanent fix, if it fixes your vision at all. A nearsighted young patient like yourself likely inherited this condition from a family member. This means that you inherited an eyeball length that is about 1 millimeter longer than the average eye.....sort of like having a size 11 foot instead of size 9 1/2. Thought of thi more

Anthony J. Kameen, MD
Baltimore Ophthalmologist

www.kameen.com

You cannot train your eyes not to be nearsighted

There have been many false cures touted for all kinds of things, including the Bates method for fixing vision. While vision training in children can be legitimate in certain circumstances, your situation can only be helped with an optical correction. Nearsightedness is when the image at a distance is focused by the optics of the eye (the cornea and lens) in front of the retina which is the nerve layer that perceives vision. Whether this is due to an eye that is too long, or a cornea that... more

Jon Dishler, MD
Denver Ophthalmologist

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