Editing Myopia (section)

===Alternative medicine===
A number of [[alternative medicine|alternative therapies]] have been claimed to improve myopia, including [[vision therapy]], "behavioural optometry", various eye exercises and relaxation techniques, and the [[Bates method]].<ref name="Bates">Bates, Wm H (1920) [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Perfect_Sight_Without_Glasses/Chapter_10 Sight Without Glasses] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220174710/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Perfect_Sight_Without_Glasses/Chapter_10 |date=20 December 2016 }}. Ch. 10, p. 106. {{ISBN|1479118540}}.</ref> Scientific reviews have concluded that there was "no clear scientific evidence" that eye exercises are effective in treating myopia<ref name="Rawstron">{{cite journal | vauthors = Rawstron JA, Burley CD, Elder MJ | title = A systematic review of the applicability and efficacy of eye exercises | journal = Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus | volume = 42 | issue = 2 | pages = 82–8 | year = 2005 | doi = 10.3928/01913913-20050301-02 | pmid = 15825744 }}</ref> and as such they "cannot be advocated".<ref name="Barrett">{{cite journal | vauthors = Barrett BT | title = A critical evaluation of the evidence supporting the practice of behavioural vision therapy | journal = Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics | volume = 29 | issue = 1 | pages = 4–25 | date = January 2009 | pmid = 19154276 | doi = 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2008.00607.x | s2cid = 13588501 | doi-access = free }}</ref>