When he put the severed muscles back together again, or washed out the drug,
the rabbit's eyes were able to accommodate again.
The Helmholtz theory states that accommodation is due to the expansion and
contraction of the Crystalline Lens, caused by the action of the Ciliary Muscle. Dr.
Bates, through his experiments, suggests that it is not the Crystalline Lens, but the
six external muscles that act upon the eyeball, that give the eye its ability to adjust
and accommodate to near and far objects.
Whatever the actual reason, it doesn’t really matter to someone who is following a
proven exercise routine to recover their lost vision. We’ll leave the dispute to the
scientists, but let’s say it is both the oblique muscles and the Ciliary Muscle which
work together when focusing.
Confused?
OK, here’s the simple version...
The muscles of your eyes change the shape of your eye, and the shape of your
eye lens, so that whatever you are looking at, gets focused in the right place on the
retina. If the muscles are not working properly, the image is focused in the wrong
place and appears fuzzy!
Yes, that lacks a little finesse, as far as explanations go, but it gives you the basic
idea!
Now, if it is your eye muscles that allow you to
see clearly
, then it follows that
‘out
of shape’
eye muscles are going to cause poor vision.