Who was Dr. Bates?

Dr. William H. Bates was an optometrist, graduated and very highly respected as a student and medical professionsl. In his work he noticed that prescribing glasses makes vision worse. He concluded the main cause of poor vision is stress and strain in eye muscles. He did lots of researc to prove this and set up a set of exercises to help people improve their vision. He also wrote a book that is a very good resource to start from in improving your eye sight.