Another Natural Vision Improvement method tested

They keep testing things, Uncle Scrotis -- even those things that --
in your delusional view of the world -- should put optometrists out of
business -- and those things keep failing.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/c...11728/PDFSTART

"The effect of distance gazing and eye ball exercise on the prevention
of myopia progression"

Materials and methods:

604 children in the same grade of a primary school in Taipei were
enrolled in the study and separated randomly into two groups: Group
one, totally 390 children, where all performed the far-gazing practice
and eye ball exercise three times a day under the instruction of the
teachers who had been trained to teach the exercise procedure. Group
two, consisting of 214 children, did not practice any specific eye
ball exercise and served as the control group. The refractive status
was checked and recorded in cycloplegic condition before and at the
end of the study. The changes of refractive status were compared in
the two groups at the end of the study. The study lasted for 1 l/2
years.

Results:

1) No significant difference of the change of refraction was noted
between group 1 and group 2.

2) If emmetropic and hyperopic children were excluded, there was still
no significant difference of refractive change between group 1 and
group 2.

Discussion:

In doing the near work, not only the ciliary muscle contraction for
accommodation but also extraocular muscle contraction both for
convergence
and downward movement, pupillary constriction, upper lid muscle
relaxation and
other body muscles activities for postural changes come into play. In
order to reduce this 'near work response phenomena' (if indeed this
was a myopia
inducing factor), far-gazing, upper lid lifting as well as other
extraocular muscle exercise are required. This principle was the
basis for our eye ball exercise designation. After 1 1/2 year, the
results were not encouraging. To confirm
whether the exercise was effective or not, a longer follow-up period
and doing the exercise more frequently, particularly at the end of
each near work, should be considered.


[That's sort of a mix of Bates AND your notion of Snellen reading. It
didn't help. Out of curiosity, do YOU have any evidence showing that
any of these "NVI" methods DO work in humans?????]

Far Gazing??

Eye ball exercise???

Sort of a mix of Bates and Snellen reading ??????????????????????

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