Thanks a lot for your reply. Yup I got this feeling after the presenter dodged that question. However I also got the impression that it is currently unknown wether the axis of the eye shortens after these exercises, is that true? I read more about the topic and some people call the improvement in visual acuity "blur adaptation" - can "blur adaptation" really produce such drastic effects, and if so - are there potential side-effects?
For example in my case I have medium myopia (< -3). The prospect of not wearing glasses anymore is very appealing to me and I don't really care about the length of the eye if all the symptoms disappear with this "blur adaptation. What am I missing?
There is _zero_ doubt that these types exercises can work. I play tennis with a guy that used to wear glasses, with a decent level of myopia (slightly worse than -3), and over the course of several years reduced his myopia to the point he can easily play without glasses (it's something like -0.5 now). The only time I ever see him wearing glasses is at night. He worked off the methods in Bates' "Better Eyesight Without Glasses". I wear glasses myself, and am myopic. I would go through the effort myself, but on top of normal myopia I also have something called Nystagmus (shaking of the eye) of which the net result is additional blurring, so it's pretty hard for me to function without glasses at all (my vision without glasses would be about 20/400, with glasses it's 20/40).
For example in my case I have medium myopia (< -3). The prospect of not wearing glasses anymore is very appealing to me and I don't really care about the length of the eye if all the symptoms disappear with this "blur adaptation. What am I missing?