From owner-i_see@indiana.edu Fri Jun 30 16:33:58 EST 1995 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 14:28 PDT From: Robert_Michael_Kaplan@Sunshine.net (Robert-Michael Kaplan) Subject: Re: vol.accomodation Status: RO X-Status: >Voluntary accommodation. Hello Vic and I_SEE group: I was happy to read of your discoveries of voluntary accommodation. My findings are very similar. I have a neat gadget called a contactscope - a device that allows you to see your own iris and pupil of one eye at a time, under great magnification. I have my patients look at their pupil and this sets in motion the accommodative response, and they get feedback by seeing the pupil getting smaller.They then have to relax and watch their pupil becoming larger. This becomes a fun game and it gives them the feedback you described in your article. If any of you would like this device (costs around $20) , it is part of our catalogue products and can be obtained from us. There is a $5 shipping and handling fee to post the catalogue. Just reading an interesting account of a French Canadian Behavioural Optometrist viewpoint of myopia. A few juicy quotes: *Myopia has become a social curse....The Optometrist may be the instigating trigger of a crippling process...It is not because of one's eye that one becomes a myope. It is because of one's brain....Convex lenses at least retard the process of myopia.* Armand R.Bastien, O.D. from a compedium of papers on Myopia, published as Curriculum 2 Vol., 59, No 1 October, 1986 by the Optometric Extension Program. All the best, Robert-Michael. "Products and programs for helping your eyes....naturally!" Beyond_20/20@sunshine.net [Robert_Michael_Kaplan O.D., M.Ed., FCOVD] Snail Mail RR#2 S26 C39 Gibsons, British Columbia. VON 1VO Canada Voice (604) 885-7118 Fax (604) 885-0608 ========================================================================= From owner-i_see@indiana.edu Mon Apr 10 01:07:11 EST 1995 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 23:06:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Deryck S Schnee Subject: Re: Vision Freedom Status: RO X-Status: On Sat, 8 Apr 1995, Mark Jensen wrote: > I recently saw an ad for Vision Freedom-corrective vision through exercise > and would like any info that I_SEE might have about this outfit. It is the > work of Brian Severson, who claims to have been an airline pilot who > corrected his vision to 20/20 in order to fly. He sells a program for $100, > which consists of three pairs of glasses and instructions to restore vision > for myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia and astigmatism. My guess is that it is a > reduced prescription approach, but It is obvious that there are no three > prescriptions that would help my farsghtedness (I have tried +1, +2, +3. > They all make my eyes more blurry. Is there something here, or is this > snake oil? > > Mark Jensen-Double J Apiaries mjensen@crl.com ...snip... I have ordered this system and i comes with a very informative booklet and three sets of glasses. You guessed it (+1.00, +2.00, & +3.00). The basic key to the whole program is to take your glasses off and hold some regular text (like a newspaper) at a distance so that it just SLIGHTLY blurrs. After about two minutes when the text starts to clear up push it slightly out of focus again. The only purpose of the glasses is to bring the 'blur' zone to a convienient distance for reading starting with the +1.00 lens. I myself do not need the glasses yet because I cannot see the text at an arms length. This program has worked a little for me so far. I used to hold text 8 inches from my eyes in order to see it in focus. Now I can hold the same text about 14 inches away and still see it as clear as ever! I have been doing these exercises for about a month. The only real side effect of the program is that I had a few headaches (eyeaches) the first week, but I do not get them anymore. The book suggests practicing for 30 minutes to 2 hours a day while reading a book or similar using a 10 minute practice/10 minute rest cycle. It also recommends not wearing your regular prescription glasses when at all possible, except when safety requires it. It is a reduced correction system, but you have to buy the new glasses from your eye-doctor as you eyes improve. As you can see there is not much to the 'system' itself, and one could actually have some success just following what I've said above, however, I am not a eye-doctor, so if it would make you more comfortable having all the information on-hand, then I suggest purchasing the kit. Deryck S. Schnee -- derycks@clark.edu P.S. Does anyone of anywhere minus glasses can be purchased aside from the optometrist? (I realize it may be illegal, so... that brings me to question #2) Anybody know of an eye-doctor in the Portland,OR area that supports vision therapy type practices? ========================================================================= From owner-i_see@indiana.edu Thu Jul 6 17:11:12 EST 1995 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 15:03 PDT From: Robert_Michael_Kaplan@Sunshine.net (Robert-Michael Kaplan) Subject: Training to improve your vision. Status: RO X-Status: Greetings from sunny British Columbia. I have checked with Alex regarding posting information about some training programs I 'll be offering this summer and he said: *>Post away! If you want to talk about some of your products, that's OK too!* Because of your keen interest in improving your vision and helping others to see more clearly, I'm extending a personal invitation for you to come and spend a week with me this summer. You will learn the basic program of Integrated Vision Therapy in order to heal your own eyesight and assist others as well. This special training is being held from August 21st to 27th, 1995. Whether your interest is purely to improve your own vision, help others, add to your existing career or start a new one, this one-week intensive program is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your self-healing journey. The training is being held at my INN-SIGHT, Centre for Wellness and Vision on the Sunshine Coast (1-1/2 hours from downtown Vancouver in B.C. Western Canada). The program is set-up in such a way that we meet for 3-4 one and a half hour teaching modules per day and then you have the time to review and practice new ways of seeing on your own in a natural woodland setting or at the ocean nearby. Gourmet vegetarian food and comfortable shared accommodation in our bed and breakfast facility at INN-SIGHT is provided. If you wish to talk in more detail about the upcoming training, please e-mail and I will behappy to give you more details. A report I just received may be of interest to you. *Researchers at the UK Bristol Eye Hospital have developed a computer system that uses eyes "as a guide to the physical and mental condition of patients." Dr. Demetrious Papakostopoulos and Dr. Christopher Dean Hart say they have the tools to probe the brain's mechanism. The computer system is called the pupillometer, which digests an infra-red videw of a patient's eyes, rendering rates of pupil expansion and contraction into a graph while lights are being turned on and off. "There is no systemic disease known to man that does not show some manifestation in the eye.", Dr. Hart said this month. "The eye takes light's physical energy and transforms it to a currency the nervous system understands", Dr. P said.* All the best, Robert-Michael Kaplan. O.D., M.Ed., FCOVD. P.S. A little bit about myself. I am a doctor trained in optometry, visual science, education and psychology. I was a professor of optometry for ten years doing research on vision therapy. Due to my frustration with conventional vision care, I developed a consumer oriented program of improving vision fitness, which is in my book Seeing Without Glasses and my new book The Power Behind Your Eyes. I am a photographic artist a father of a 5 year old, live in paradise, fish, love to share my wisdom, and am becoming a net lover. ========================================================================= From aeulenbe@indiana.edu Fri Nov 7 16:29:00 1995 From: "Larry Kline" Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 12:02:10 +0000 Subject: Pinhole glasses Status: RO X-Status: I wondered if anyone has any experience with pinhole glasses. Have they used them, how effective did they seem, where can I purchase some, are there different kinds? I currently use a headpiece when working at the computer as a visual clue to keep my head aligned with where I am looking. I can definitely notice the difference when I use this versus not. My vision if less blurry when I finish the computer work than it would be normally. The headpiece looks weird though so I only use it at home, not at work. I was thinking that pinhole glasses might offer some of the same benefits. Larry Kline lkline@igc.apc.org ========================================================================= From owner-i_see@indiana.edu Thu Nov 9 23:31:17 EST 1995 From: "Larry Kline" Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 19:44:40 +0000 Subject: Re: Vision-saving computer headpiece Status: RO X-Status: The headpiece I use at the computer is actually quite simple. It is a piece of thick wire -- about clothes hanger thickness -- that is bent into a circle about the circumference of ones head. Then from the front of this circle bend the wire so a piece comes down straight perpendicular to the circle. Put the wire on your head and align the straight piece so it comes down directly in front of your nose. I hope that description is understandable. It's sort of like wearing a miner's or spelunker's head lamp without the lamp. And from where the lamp would be a piece of wire extends down about 10 inches directly in front of your nose. You can check the alignment by closing first one eye and then the other and making sure the images fron each eye of the piece of wire hanging down are equidistant from the tip of your nose. What you must try to do then is to only look at things that are between the two images of that piece of wire. This is obviously not as focused as pinhole glasses but it does seem to help. I can't take credit for this invention. I got it from Tom Quackenbush who runs eye improvement seminars in San Francisco. His organization is called the Natural Vision Center. P.O. Box 16403 San Francisco, CA. 415-665-2010 If anyone can't figure out what the headpiece looks like let me know and I'll try to explain it better or upload a picture (if I can figure out how to do that). Larry Kline lkline@igc.apc.org ========================================================================= From owner-i_see@indiana.edu Sat Dec 2 13:05:25 EST 1995 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 09:56:39 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Kaplan Subject: book by dr leslie salov Status: RO X-Status: I got a piece of direct mail pushing a book called Hidden Secrets for better Vision by Dr. Leslie Salov. The marketing material promises help for all kinds of eye problems from conjuctivitis to macular degeneration. Has anyone heard of this guy or this book? Is there any value to it ( besides the $30 the publisher gets)? =========================================================================