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From: barbaral@tekig1.UUCP (Barbara Lee)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: skeptics view of vision therapy
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Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 13:29:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 23 13:29:39 1984
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About a month ago, I went to a lecture on vision therapy:  a holistic
approach to improving ones vision via nutrition, eye exercises, positive
thinking, etc.  I was rather skeptical, but went ahead and bought the
book and tape, and decided to go ahead and give it a try.  After all,
the most I could lose is the price of the book and tape.
Before I began the vision exercises described in the book, my vision was
20/100.  Now, to my pleasant surprise, my vision has improved to 20/50,
and I occasionally have flashes of even clearer vision (20/20).  For the
first time in years, I'm watching movies without glasses, can read 
overhead projections without glasses.  Don't worry, I still use my glasses
when driving (20/40 is legal limit here in Oregon).  I work on a VDT quite
a bit, and do some of the eye exercises throughout the day.  This has helped
reduce my eye strain.
 When I first heard the vision therapist lecture, I thought he was half-
way off his rocker; and infact, my opthamalogist told me that as far as
he's concerned "vision therapy is a bunch of hogwash".  But as the saying
goes, You can't argue with success!  I'm very happy and amazed that my
vision has improved.  I don't know if I'll ever reach 20/20 vision, but
20/50 is a lot better than 20/100!