STRABISMUS - Crossed/wandering eyes

The Bates Method, Natural Eyesight Improvement treatments, activities for removing unclear vision; close and distant blur, astigmatism listed in this book/website will correct wandering/crossed eye conditions.

Practice Palming, relaxation, shifting, central fixation, switching, memory and imagination, positive, happy thoughts/emotions, pens in a row, bead string, all correct vision habits, long swing, cross crawl, central-fixation stick, switching close and far and shifting, central fixation with both eyes together, one eye at a time, then both together again, wear a eye patch on the normally functioning eye and walk around/use the wandering eye alone for a short time to increase the clarity of vision in that eye and the eyes movement.

If the wandering eye needs vision improvement; practice extra time; shifting, central fixation, switching close and far, memory/imagination of clear objects, with that eye to return clear vision in the eye.

Do this in a relaxed manner, no effort, no strain.

This will improve the eyes function and enable it to move correct, work with the other eye.

Read Dr. Bates book; The Cure of Imperfect Sight By Treatment Without Glasses.
See the picture from the book on the right.

Dr. Bates and his assistant Emily Bates cured many cases of strabismus, crossed, wandering eyes.

He uses the word 'Squint' to describe the condition.

There is a specific treatment Dr. Bates apply's that teaches the patient how to make the eyes wander, cross in order to learn how uncomfortable, straining it feels and what causes the eyes to strain, turn in a incorrect direction.

In this way the person learns to avoid the strain/cause and the eyes remain straight.

A method similar to this is used to cure blur; Dr. Bates has the patient stare hard at a object, (letter on a eye chart) try hard to see it clear without shifting, without moving the eyes, to stare at one part or stare by trying to see all parts of the object clear at the same time without shifting the eyes to a new part.

In a few seconds the eyes feel strain, uncomfortable, the vision becomes more unclear.

The only relief is to blink, move/shift the eyes to a new part of the object or to a new object.
This 'shifting' is normal eye function.

The persons learns to avoid staring, eye immobility.

The person shifts part to part on the object, then to another object, then back to the original object and the eyes remain relaxed, strain free and vision clear.

Some people can move their eyes in opposite directions using mental control and then return the eyes to normal, straight position.
A Young boy did this to Dr. Bates as a joke.
After a eye exam, Dr. Bates realized the boy was playing a prank and his eyes were normal, move together, straight.

These true stories are in Ophthalmologist Bates 'Better Eyesight Magazines' and books.

Here are 2 websites, Yahoo Group for Strabismus information, cures:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LazyEye/

http://eradicatelazyeye.org/

http://www.amblyopiakids.com/

A few businesses writing on these links might try to sell medical treatments: surgery, eyedrops, drugs... for Strabismus.

Avoid these. Use the Bates Method, patching, games..., natural methods only.

Relaxation of the mind/brain and eyes is most effective.

Avoid trying hard to keep the eye straight.
Avoid trying to see clear.
Relax, shift, blink, use correct vision habits in a easy, effortless manner and the eye will move correct.

These methods relax the eye muscles and return them to normal function.

Misaligned neck vertebrae and skull bones, (mainly the bones where the eye muscles attach in the back of the eye socket) can also cause strabismus.
This condition is often caused by forceps used on the baby's head during birth delivery or by cesarean birth.

Doctors like to sell unneeded cesareans to make more money by performing surgery.
Natural birth (without forceps) aligns the skull bones as the baby's head passes through the birth canal.
Accidents, head/neck injury anytime in life, inactivity of one brain hemisphere or areas of one or both hemispheres, one hemisphere overly dominant, hemispheres not working together, not integrated also cause strabismus.

I know a man that developed a wandering eye condition after having an operation on specific body organs.

The doctor said the stress he went through, medication, surgery caused the eye problem and it will correct itself.

Most of the time the cause of strabismus is only strain, tension in the mind, eyes.

Eyeglasses, prisms increase the strain, and maintain, increase eye muscle tension, dysfunction, crossed/wandering eye/eyes, blur, dim/low vision in the eye, amblyopia.

Eye surgeons operate on the wrong eye muscle.

They state that a muscle is weak, lazy and cannot keep the eye in correct placement.

This is incorrect.

Ophthalmologist Bates states that a tense eye muscle pulls the eye in the incorrect direction.
Dr. Bates applies natural treatments to cure strabismus;

Relaxing the mind, body, eyes, eye muscle, activating correct function of the brain with with the muscle/muscles, eyes.
This brings the eye back to normal position without use of eye muscle surgery, glasses, prisms, drugs.

Eye muscle surgery causes tension, abnormal, incorrect function of the eye muscle.
This tension, malfunction travels into other eye muscles resulting in other forms of strabismus, pressure on the eye, astigmatism, blur and other eye problems.

Most eye muscle surgeries are unsuccessful.

Some eye doctors state that the cut, surgically altered eye muscle can repair, grow back to normal state if more surgeries are avoided.

Natural Eyesight Improvement can help the muscle/muscles heal, function correct and keep the eye in normal position.

The author of this web site has corrected a slight convergence/divergence condition in his own eyes. His personal experience is limited.
The author is posting a article containing an E-mail and forum reply from David, the web master of www.iblindness.org.

David cured his eyes, (visual system) of strabismus, astigmatism and blur.

He has the best web site on the Internet on the Bates method.

Article;

Davids' cure;
From clark night on Fri Sept 26, 2008 10:12 am

To David, webmaster;

I read on your web site that you cured your condition of strabismus, astigmatism and blur.
Please list all the things you did that worked for you.
I am most interested in how you cured the strabismus.
I met a young person with a wandering eye problem and gave him info. on the Bates method.
His eye doctor wants to do surgery on the muscle and keeps giving him thick, very strong eyeglasses.
I see much strain, inflammation in his eyes.
He is very smart, open minded and told me (before I gave him a vision improvement card) that he has been searching for a natural cure and refuses to let the eye doctor do the surgery.

I know he can correct this condition.

I have cured astigmatism, blur and a very slight convergence problem in my eyes and other people, reduced cataracts in two ladies, intolerance to sunlight, but do not have experience treating major convergence, divergence (strabismus) impairment.
I can only advise methods on my web site and to read Better Eyesight Magazines, Stories from the clinic and Dr. Bates original book.

What do you think is the most effective method to get the eyes straight, moving together, looking at the same point?

Re: Davids' cure
by David on Mon Sept. 29, 2008 12:19 am.

It's really the same thing as blur, but different. With blur, it's a matter of realizing and stopping the effort you're habitually making to make your eyes focus.
With strabismus, he's probably habitually making an effort to team his eyes together, or to converge, or look both at the same thing, or keep his eyes straight, or how ever he thinks of it.
Other than that, for me it had to do with staring and one eye being blurrier, and then getting a bit more complicated by glasses with the two lenses of different strengths, so I'd end up using one eye at a time to avoid the instability.
The epiphany for me was lying down, palming and relaxing as completely as I could, opening my eyes and realizing that as I opened my eyes, before I had a chance to look at anything and adjust, my eyes were already straight until I did something to make them not.

If he could be convinced of that, that's the biggest obstacle.

Clark Night; I was thinking last night that, when the vision is blurry in a wandering eye, it might not see the perfect point of central fixation, the center of the visual field and this might impair convergence, divergence.
When the vision is clear in that eye, central fixation is perfect and the eye has a perfect central point to focus on with the other eye so it stays straight, normal, moving with the other eye from point to point.

More about strabismus - By David;

Some authorities say that the vision in a wandering eye (mine turned out laterally) is blocked out or creates a double image, but neither was ever true for me. The wandering eye provided no central vision, but it did provide a sort of peripheral vision, as evidenced by being able to sense more in the lateral direction than if I closed that eye.

But all the same things can be effective. As with anything, it's good to start each session with palming so as to start a little fresher.

Regards,
Dave

Clark Night; Most ophthalmologists, optometrists state that the eye wanders due to a lazy, weak eye muscle.
Eye doctors state that the eye muscle on the side of the eye opposite the side that the eye turns incorrectly toward is weak, lazy, not holding the eye straight.
This is incorrect.
The muscle may not be activated, functioning with the brain due to incorrect brain, eye muscle, eye function, strain but it is not lazy, weak and most of the time, it is not the muscle causing the eye to wander.

Eye doctors cut out part of the 'so-called' lazy eye muscle and sew it back together making it shorter, tighter so it pulls the eye straight.
This causes more eye muscle impairment, does not correct the function of the brain with the muscle, eyes, causes more tension, strain in the brain, muscle, eyes and causes tension, impaired function of other eye muscles.
Eye muscle surgery is most always unsuccessful.
The eye returns to the incorrect position after surgery.
Dr. Bates, Natural Eyesight Improvement teachers state that the eye muscle is not lazy, weak.
They state that the muscle on the side of the eye, the side that the eye turns incorrectly toward, is tense, pulls the eye in the incorrect direction.
Relaxation of the brain/mind, eyes, eye muscles, and using the eyes correct with application of the Bates method, removes the tension, dysfunction in the brain, eye muscle, eyes enabling the eye to return to normal position.
The Bates method also corrects function of the brain, left and right hemispheres with the eye muscles, nerves, eyes.
If a muscle is not being activated by the brain, not moving the eye correct, the Bates method will correct this.
The long swing, rock, cross crawl and other left and right brain hemisphere activation, integration and relaxation activities return the brain, eye muscles, eyes to normal function.
See navigation page 23 for Palming and other relaxation methods.
Thomas Quackenbush's book 'Relearning to See', chapter; Stereoscopic vision, page 294+ provides diagrams, activities for correcting all forms of strabismus, amblyopia, blur.
Ophthalmologist Bates Better Eyesight Magazines, Stories from the clinic (Lierman), and his original book; The cure of imperfect sight by treatment without glassescontain diagrams and treatment to cure strabismus and other conditions.

More info. and pictures to be posted in the future; use of eye patch, moving picture, light to gently coax the eye to correct position.