The Bates Method: A cure for myopia, an update.. One year ago I posted a story about the Bates method of vision improvement and the partial success I had with it in curing my myopia, astigmatism and amblyopia. When I wrote the story, no web page I was aware of offered a good overview of the method, so I tried explaining it to the best of my knowledge. Frankly, the result wasn't very good. Since then, I've found an outstanding web site that explains clearly most things you need to know to improve your vision. It also answers better than I could the many questions and objections people had. [kuro5hin.org]