The Accommotrac system was invented by Dr. Joseph N. Trachtman, Doctor of
Optometry, Ph.D. and Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. It is based on
vision research performed by Ames Research Center and a special optometer
developed for the Ames program by Stanford Research Institute.
Dr. Trachtman's Vision Trainer is intended to improve certain vision defects by
teaching the patient to control the ciliary body, the focusing muscle of the eye.
The key is biofeedback, defined as a technique wherein a patient learns to
control a bodily process or function of which he is not normally aware. Blood
pressure and heart rate, for example, can be controlled; so can the ciliary
body.
It takes a lot of practice and a great deal of motivation to learn to control
the focusing muscle of the eye, but many doctors are now using the Accommotrac®
Vision Trainer with consistent success. Not all patients can throw away
their corrective lenses, says the system's inventor, Dr. Joseph N. Trachtman,
but most achieve improvement of some sort, such as halting or reversing their
needs for increased lens prescriptions. Trachtman claims a 90 percent success
for correcting, improving or stopping focusing problems.
The Accommotrac® Vision Trainer has also proved effective in treating eye
movement problems, such as nystagmus (eye oscillation), strabismus (cross eyes or
wall eyes) and amblyopia (lazy eye).
