Myopia reduction proven - whats the next stage?

Having demonstrated amongst a small trial group that myopia reduction
is possible via a psychotherapeutic/guidance method that looks at
underlying tensions and anxieties I want to make this work more widely
known.

Here are some to the things i have tried so far.

1. I approached my local opticians and they were interested. They
ordered Kaplans books (some they bought from me). They contacted
Kaplan and got additional professional materials. They were
enthusiastic but told me "Sorry we are part of a franchise, we can not
be publicly associated with this sort of thing"

2. I approached a friendly lens blank supplier and optometrist in the
UK and showed him how his prescription was directly connected to his
behaviour and 'visual style'. He was amazed and really felt that since
i had last spoken to him i had "really nailed it down convincingly".
He said he would talk to his assistant and see if some kind of trial
group was possible to look at taking the idea further. Nothing
happened for some weeks. My mum died. I gave up.

3. Before mum died I contacted Moorfields eye hospital looking for
researchers who might be interested. They suggested I contact a
leading Singaporean Researcher on Aetiology of myopia. She was
definately interested and already recognised patterns in myopes but it
'needed to be studied in her cohort'. I was asked to produce a
questionnaire to be submitted to the cohort. This questionnaire
seemed problematical and too intellectual/academic for my liking. I
said that it would be best to show that myopia could be reduced rather
than study it and that is what i preferred. We parted company.

4. I contacted a guy in England who was looking at myopia in families
and saying it was genetics. I pointed out that it could be something
that is learnt in the family that is creating the myopia. He had not
even considered that possibility. He is a very nice man but his
interest is in "finding links between myopia and genetics not at
behavioural relationships". I suggested i come and visit him and we
have a small group for a few hours and i can show him what i know. That
remains a possibility - but he prefers a study be done rather than a
demo of myopia reduction.

5. A twin study group is going to study Discordant MZ twins to see if
childhood differences are responsible for differences. I am not
involved yet.

I have other irons in other fires. One avenue is to go down the pub
with influencial myopic science journalists and show them how easy it
is to link myopia to somewhat complicated but known behavioural
patterns for each refractive error and then see if that can open doors.


This work can be done via email but in person its far more dramatic for
those willing to listen.

Meanwhile perhaps i am missing some other way of approaching this
problem. Suggestions welcome.

Andrew

 

Until you prove (as you wrote in the subject line) you are a look-alike of
Otis.

Major snip in a lot off stories not proven to be true yet.

--
Free to Marcus Porcius Cato: ''Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"

In conclusion, I think that the "Otis therapy" should be destroyed

Jan (normally Dutch spoken)

 

The usual way to interest researchers is to publish your small trial.

Why are you rejecting the serious researchers who want to do proper
research? The only scientific, believable way to "prove" your ideas and to
make them better known is not to cure individuals but to do controlled,
valid, scientific study.

If you are asking the question "Does personality affect myopia development?"
the way to study this is to have a group of young people have various
measures done, including accepted, reliable, valid, psychological tests and
then followed for a number of years, with repeat testing at various
specified times. Those who become myopic are compared to those who do not
become myopic to see what the differences are. It sounds like the
researcher with a cohort was doing this and was willing to add your
questions to her measures. Why did you reject this, if an effect was found
she would have published it and the knowledge would be more widely known.

If you are asking the question "Can modifying behaviour reduce myopia?",
then, again, you need to not just treat some individuals but do a controlled
study, treating one group and not treating a matched control group to see if
there are statistically significant differences.

Dr Judy

 

Dr Judy wrote:

HOW can you reduce myopia if you do not renounce eyeglasses?

 

I suggest you go to graduate school and earn a PhD or Masters. This could
be your thesis topic. If you think you are going to do it any other way you
are wasting your time. For better or for worse, the system doesn't work
that way.

Based upon how you post in this NG, I can well imagine that this is true.

OK, so you see your name in lights.

Look-- you need a lot of help from academicians. More than you realize.
Your study needs to be well-constructed by reputable and credible
authorities and conducted in a highly professional manner. E-mail and chat
isn't going to cut it. Talking to the local optical shop isn't going to
convince anyone. Just being passionate about what you believe isn't enough.

Until then the title of your posting should be "Myopia reduction theory
seems very reasonable to me-- but how do I prove it to the rest of the
world?"

 

Sorry, Andrew, but some inventors and their theories just never seem to
get the recognistion they deserve. You will probably be recognized
posthumously. ; )

DrG

 

Actually, as he's selling these books, he's the worst combination of Otis
and Rishi.

Scott

 

Books are not injurious, while your false treatments are injurious.

 

Quit the contrary, show me wich method works and I should be delighted to
use it and call myself a fool not having noticed the possibility.

What a nonsense.
Why you are showing your opinion this very moment?
Not affraid a colleague of yours read this stuff?
Charlatanic behaviour just as your look-alike Otis.

--
Free to Marcus Porcius Cato: ''Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"

In conclusion, I think that the "Otis therapy" should be destroyed

Jan (normally Dutch spoken)

 

Jans reaction towards me is fairly typical of the profession. "Myopia

Why are you telling me about your problems with Jan?
Getting a little overly emotional?

 

Jan

Just recently you made an interesting comment on psychoemotional
correlations to pupil size. But generally the logic in your replies is
difficult to understand.

By what method could a person show you a method can reduce myopia?

Andrew

 

we're hearing a little more than we need to about your mum and your dad

 

snip

At the end of the say i don't want to spend

Good research takes time, if you don't spend the time to do it properly,
nobody will believe you.

You don't need a controlled group, you need a treatment group and a matched,
no treatment /sham treatment control group. You need a researcher to assist
you in determining how large the groups should be, how to test for matching,
to make sure the design is valid, to help design the sham treatment, to
help with obtaining human research/ ethical clearance, to help find the
subjects and so on. You need either a vision researcher or a licensed eye
examiner to do pre and post treatment cycloplegic refractions.

It will take time and it cannot be done by e-mail.

Dr Judy

 

Correct.

you need a treatment group and a matched,

Correct

You need a researcher to assist

Partially correct. I need a bona fida authority who can present me
with the pre treatment group of which all have been screened for
ethical considerations.

Incorrect.

The treatment is best done in person but it **can** be done via email.
Certainly the pretreatment work to determine which of the group are
likely to be able to continue with the work and who wish to be selected
for more highly personal interaction **can** be done via email.

The Email would form the basis of the discussion of the results.
Myopia improvement does not lend itself to traditional scientific
anaylsis. It would require a massive write up or ideally video before
and after presentations of the behaviour and mannerisms of the myopes
before and after.

For example if myopes have issues with self esteem a video of them
being interviewed before and a video after treatment would speak a
thousand words.

But this work can be done via email of that i am confidant because I am
already doing it and getting results with people who recognise the
validity of what i am doing with them and who are finding they are
getting improvements in refraction.

Andrew

 

I would like to acknowledge that you have cured yourself or discarded
glasses or reduced your prescription or something else in accord to
your efforts.

What have you reached till now?