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Thread: Recipe for success
Post: Re: Recipe for success

Dear Jamie, I will agree that any type of activity like this takes persistence. But let me add the following. 5) BELIEF Believe that what you're doing is working and have a positive attitude. Tru...

otis

Bates Method

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11-02-2006, 12:42 PM

Thread: Sharp pains
Post: Re: Sharp pains

Subject: Sharp pain. If you have this type of response, I would consult with an ophthalmologist. Just to be safe. Best, Otis

otis

Bates Method

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11-01-2006, 07:42 PM

Thread: Current Official Theory of Accomodation?
Post: Re: Current Official Theory of Accomodation?

Dear Dave, My interest was to determine if bates was correct about the minus lens (not being safe). And that is the reason for looking at the accurate graphics. And indeed, recent experiments prove...

otis

Bates Method

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11-01-2006, 07:41 AM

Thread: Current Official Theory of Accomodation?
Post: Re: Current Official Theory of Accomodation?

Of course the eye can change its refractive STATE when you place a minus lens on it. Here are the animated graphics to show the effect: <a class="postlink" href="http://vision....

otis

Bates Method

13,416

10-30-2006, 08:08 PM

Thread: Background: How current visual acuity standards were established.
Post: Background: How current visual acuity standards w...

Bate2040.txt Subject: What is the origin of the DMV Visual Acuity Standard? The visual acuity test (20/20) means reading 3/8 inch letters at 20 feet. The DMV standard is for 20/40, or ...

otis

Complementary Methods

3,683

10-30-2006, 08:03 PM

Thread: Tension and eye strain
Post: Re: Tension and eye strain

Sorry about the pain. But I do congratulate you on reading your Snellen at 20/20. That is a major success! The general "OD" regards reading or "guessing" 1/2 the letters correctly as passing the li...

otis

Bates Method

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10-30-2006, 10:57 AM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Bifocal, It is easier to get the eye's refractive state to move "negative" as per your friend's efforts -- that it is to get it to move "positive". But your suggestions and support are the righ...

otis

Complementary Methods

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129,137

10-28-2006, 07:24 AM

Thread: how to read a Snellen test card
Post: Re: how to read a Snellen test card

Excellent! The purpose of Bates is to clear your Snellen and pass the DMV. I believe that Bates is about "empowerment", and that this is a matter of clearing your vision yourself. Most DMVs require...

otis

Bates Method

13,045

10-24-2006, 04:55 PM

Thread: how to read a Snellen test card
Post: Re: how to read a Snellen test card

And that line is the 20/60 line? Otis

otis

Bates Method

13,045

10-24-2006, 06:30 AM

Thread: how to read a Snellen test card
Post: Re: how to read a Snellen test card

Wolf> Ok, so when you're sitting there, you read the smallest line possible. Do you use shifting or swinging to try to improve your vision for the Otis> Since you are reading the smallest line...

otis

Bates Method

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10-23-2006, 05:03 PM

Thread: how to read a Snellen test card
Post: Re: how to read a Snellen test card

Dear whitewolf, Subject: Reading the Snellen. The official distance is 20 feet. At that distance, 20/60 letters will be 1 inch high. If that is not possible, then read the Snellen at 10 feet, in ...

otis

Bates Method

13,045

10-22-2006, 06:11 PM

Thread: Tension and eye strain
Post: Re: Tension and eye strain

Dear Friend, 20/60 -- is not great -- but it is not that bad either. The Florida DMV is 20/70 or better. Georgia is 20/60 or better. Texas is 20/50 or better. Most of the other states is 20/40 wi...

otis

Bates Method

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10-20-2006, 07:17 PM

Thread: Tension and eye strain
Post: Re: Tension and eye strain

Just a suggestion. Since you are "reading" a Snellen (an excellent idea) could you post the line you read? Probably about 20/100 to 20/70 from your -2 diopter prescription. So, as you vision begins...

otis

Bates Method

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10-20-2006, 11:48 AM

Thread: Current Official Theory of Accomodation?
Post: Re: Current Official Theory of Accomodation?

Oleg> Isn't medicine a true science? Otis> No, they are profoundly biased. The best way to understand this issue is to understand that Bates was fired from his job, when he "cured" people of ...

otis

Bates Method

13,416

10-10-2006, 09:01 AM

Thread: My reduced RX finally arrived from Zenni Optical!!!
Post: Re: My reduced RX finally arrived from Zenni Optic...

Good to hear that Zennioptical does a good job. At the price of $20 for prescription glasses -- is is easy to experiment. Best, Otis

otis

Bates Method

12,216

10-09-2006, 05:55 PM

Thread: Progress with 2.5 lenses
Post: Re: Progress with 2.5 lenses

Dear Its-Me, I agree with you! It took me 10 years to find an OD who also "destroyed" his vision with his "bad habits" and INSISTED that his own children wear the plus -- BEFORE that minus. It take...

otis

Bates Method

5,897

10-07-2006, 01:10 PM

Thread: New Bates-type vision traiong tool
Post: Re: New Bates-type vision traiong tool

Thanks for the commentary! I do a lot of "collecting" of these various methods, concepts and "sales". But Bates was right -- your must "see" your way to the method that is best for you. And that is...

otis

Complementary Methods

7,145

09-20-2006, 08:18 PM

Thread: New Bates-type vision traiong tool
Post: New Bates-type vision traiong tool

What do you think of this method? <a class="postlink" href="http://www.exerciseyoureyes.com/how_it_works.asp">http://www.exerciseyoureyes.com/how_it_works.asp</a><!-- m...

otis

Complementary Methods

7,145

09-18-2006, 01:37 PM

Thread: Bates explains the change in VA requirements.
Post: Bates explains the change in VA requirements.

FROM A DESCRIPTION OF VISUAL REQUIREMENTS BY DR. BATES Up to 1908 the United States required normal (20/20) vision in recruits for its military service. In that year Bannister and Shaw m...

otis

Bates Method

3,806

09-10-2006, 07:41 AM

Thread: Clearing your vision with the Snellen -- by Dr. Bates
Post: Re: Clearing your vision with the Snellen -- by Dr...

Part 2 They must be able to look at strange letters or objects at the near-point without strain before they can make much progress in their studies, and in every case in which the method has bee...

otis

Bates Method

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09-07-2006, 09:38 PM

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