Are the eyes healthy while wearing glasses or contact lenses?
– Dr Bates showed that a person’s vision is under chronic strain while eyesight is blurred, even while wearing artificial corrective lenses or after corneal refractive surgery. In nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and strabismus, the external eye muscles are chronically tense, squeezing the eyeball out of shape or turning the eye out of normal alignment. Eye doctors have known for over a century that the greater the nearsightedness, the more likely a person will have detached retina. The retina is a paper-thin film and is not designed to be squeezed out of shape year after year. Again, from the OPEF brochure, “Two-thirds of those persons who suffer detached retinas are myopic… While processes like [corneal refractive surgery] or orthokeratology produce improved distance acuity without the use of glasses, they do not change the basic problem of myopia…” Neither do glasses and contact lenses. Further, “The change involves only the cornea, while the depth of the vitreous ch
