DesertRat
KarenMarie
The Bates Method is the only one I know, and yes, I'd say it's better than good. His book "Better Eyesight Without Glasses" is pure genius, I think, one of the rarest works of genius on the highest level. All the chapters in that book, plus a few more not printed in the current version, are available free on the web at Imagination Blindness (link below). The webmaster also wrote an excellent article called "The most misunderstood aspects of the Bates Method", which might even make a good introduction to it.
Also the site www.seeing.org, is about Bates but throws in another useful technique, a trick for teaching your brain not to disregard most of what it sees, to have active "hunter vision" instead of the bored, "I'd rather think than see" vision of a civilized person. The technique is called "color days" and is very easily adapted to be even better once you understand what it is trying to trick you into doing.
It has been a long and at times frustrating nine months for me, figuring out which trechniques work for me personally (within the Bates Method), and I'm not done yet, either with my general health or eyesight, but I've made tremendous progress. I have gone from stumbling over things in broad daylight (without my -4.5 glasses) to seeing pretty much normal in daylight. My vision in dim light, however, still has a ways to go.
Imagination Blindness