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, left and right brain hemisphere activation, integration, 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. Pens in a Row and Bead String - Click Here

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.
Also read Stories From The Clinic and Better Eyesight Magazine

There is a specific treatment Dr. Bates applies 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's 2 websites for Strabismus information, cures:

http://eradicatelazyeye.org/

http://www.amblyopiakids.com/

A few businesses writing on these links and other places might try to sell medical treatments: surgery, eye drops, drugs... for Strabismus. Avoid these. Use the Bates Method, patching, games.., natural methods only.
Avoid Artificial 3-D (Magic Eyes pictures, 3-Cups...). They can cause Strabismus, double vision. Try the Bates method first. If more treatment is needed, get treatment directly from an eye doctor specializing in the 3-D and other (non-surgery, no drug, no eye drops) treatments done a specific way for each individual person. Do not attempt to do the doctor's treatments on your own by reading books, websites.

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.

Chiropractors can align the neck, bones but it's risky. Many people have had strokes, paralyzed, impaired hearing, eyesight from
chiropractic, even when done by a honest experience doctor. Some people have died.

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 website corrected a slight convergence/divergence defect in her eyes in the past.
    In 2009 a dishonest chiropractor placed 4 vertebrae in my neck; c1, 2, 4, 6 and the shoulders T1.., back and hip bones out of alignment.
This caused vertigo, trouble walking sleeping, ringing ears, double vision, a wandering, slow to diverge left eye, partial blindness, astigmatism, after images and other eye-vision problems.
    This was corrected with The Bates Method of Natural Eyesight Improvement and Physical Therapy, honest doctors;

Over a year after the injury, still a lot of problems; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8J1vhCt3SM ,
More and more improvement in my newer videos as time passed;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhXG6KWpCEM ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy7666JJBO0 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VULxwponv0

I have reversed strabismus in children, cataracts in students of varying ages, retina bleeding, blur, intolerance to sunlight and other eye-vision conditions. I have some experience treating major convergence, divergence (strabismus) impairment but have not experienced a major Strabismus problem in my eyes. So; read Dr. Bates Better Eyesight Magazines, book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, Emily's Stories From The Clinic for many effective methods to get the eyes straight, moving together, looking at the same point.

When the vision is blurry in a wandering, crossed eye, it does not see the area of central-fixation, the 'center of the visual field' clear. This impairs convergence, divergence, the visual axis's. Also, the peripheral field is usually blurred.
When the vision becomes clear in the less clear eye, central-fixation is perfect and the eye has a perfect central point to focus on with the other eye. So it stays straight, moving perfectly with the other eye from object to object, part to part on a object.
     Relaxation, no effort, no force to keep the eyes moving together and; improving the vision in the wandering, crossed eye, and in both eyes; getting the vision equal and clear in the left and right eyes is a very effective cure for strabismus.
     When the blurry sighted eye obtains clear eyesight; it's fovea/macula can see clear, so it easily sees and moves onto the same area of visual attention that the clear eye's attention is moving upon. All areas of the visual field at their maximum clarity.
     This method also corrects astigmatism. (Astigmatism is caused by one or more tense, uncoordinated eye muscles.)

Avoid staring. Let the eyes (where you are looking at) shift 'move'. Blink.

Avoid eyeglasses. Never wear glasses with uneven prescriptions in the left, right eyes because this causes, maintains and increases uneven 'imbalanced' sight in the left, right eyes. This causes, maintains strabismus. I meet many people who wear strong eyeglasses, uneven prescriptions; often they develop a slow moving eye. Especially noticed when the glasses are removed. The eyes need to learn to move, function without the glasses freezing them into immobility. This can feel uncomfortable, even scary at first, but; the more glasses are avoided, the more the eyes will move correct.

When one eye's vision is less clear; the clearer vision eye often dominates and the less clear eye does not wholly function. This leads to increased lowered clarity in the less clear eye. See the switching chapters to correct this;

    http://cleareyesight-batesmethod.info/id8.html
    http://cleareyesight-batesmethod.info/id9.html

And central-fixation (Centralizing);
    http://cleareyesight-batesmethod.info/id9.html
    http://cleareyesight-batesmethod.info/id46.html

Palming; http://cleareyesight-batesmethod.info/id49.html Palm for relaxation. The practices are most effective when done with relaxation. No effort, no fear, no force.

The Bates method relaxes the eye muscles, returns them to normal function, coordination. Strengthening is not needed, if it occurs it will occur automatically when the muscles function correct. Many people misunderstand Dr. Bates and think the Bates Method consists of Eye Exercises. The Bates Method is not eye exercises. The Bates Method consists of relaxation of the mind, body, eye muscles, eyes and practicing correct relaxed function, use of the eyes, vision, the 'visual system', left, right brain hemisphere integration, good posture, central-fixation... In some old and modern advertisements people still believe exercise is the key, even when stating positive results from application of the Bates Method, they don't mention the relaxation and other natural practices that enabled the cure.

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 21 for Palming and other relaxation methods.

Avoid video games, too many hours on the computer and magic eyes auto-stereogram pictures (Artificial 3-D).

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 Glasses, (Perfect Sight Without Glasses)contain diagrams and treatment to cure strabismus and other conditions.

See more Directions, Pictures and PDF Below. Use of Eye Patch, Moving Picture, Light to Gently Coax the Eye to Correct Position;



Eight Steps for Switching Close and Far with Both Eyes Together and One Eye at a Time with the Pen and Far Object
Between the Left and Right Eyes, at Eye Level in the Two Eyes One Central Field



Shift on the close object, then on the far, then close, then far... Shift on middle distance objects. Practice this with the 8 steps below. (Picture is of a person facing you.) The person has 20/50 vision in the right eye and 20/100 (less clear) vision in the left eye. Practice brings the vision to equal, perfect 20/20 and clearer in both eyes at all distances. Practice with the close pen and far object at a variety of distances; 2 feet, 5, 10, 25, 40, 300... Do not wear eyeglasses, contact lenses, sunglasses.



See the book Perfect Sight Without Glasses for this and all Strabismus chapter pages, pictures; Click Here



PDF With More Directions Click Here

See the PDF E-Books for Strabismus Cures with Phoria Swings, Brain Hemisphere Integration, Switching.., Eye Patching, Bead String and other treatments.

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