What Causes High Myopia and Eye Elongation?
Most mainstream researchers believe myopia is caused by some combination of genetic and environmental factors. Dr. William Bates (1860-1931), an ophthalmology instructor at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital and researcher discovered that the external eye muscles could change the shape of the eye. He believed that chronic tension in certain muscles could produce myopia. He further believed that by relaxing these muscles the eye could be returned to a normal spherical shape and eyesight could be restored to normal.
