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Strabismus Learning Center

Treatments could include:
Treatment involves strategies to strengthen the weakened muscles and realign the eyes. Glasses and eye muscle exercises may be prescribed.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 28, 2008
Preserving or restoring vision and improving appearance may involve one or more of the following: glasses to aid in focusing and straighten the eye(s) patching to force infants and young children to use and straighten the weaker eye eye drops or o...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Preserving or restoring vision and improving appearance may involve one or more of the following: glasses to aid in focusing and straighten the eye(s) patching to force infants and young children to use and straighten the weaker eye eye drops or o...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Eye muscle surgery is surgery to weaken, strengthen, or reposition any of the muscles that move the eyeball (the extraocular muscles).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Eye muscle repair is surgery to correct eye muscle problems that cause crossed eyes. The medical term for crossed eyes is strabismus.
Source:ADAM
Date:December 22, 2008
Eye muscle surgery is performed to weaken, strengthen, or reposition any of the extraocular muscles (small muscles) located on the surface of the eye that move the eyeball in all directions.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Vision training, also known as vision therapy or orthoptics, consists of a variety of programs to enhance visual performance. It includes treatments for focusing, binocularity, and eye movement problems. Vision training is generally provided by an...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Contact lenses are small, light-weight plastic devices worn on the eye that correct refractive errors in vision . While they appear to be worn in direct contact with the cornea, they actually float on a layer of tears that separates them from the ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Eyeglasses and contact lenses are devices that correct refractive errors in vision. Eyeglass lenses are mounted in frames worn on the face, sitting mostly on the ears and nose, so that the lenses are positioned in front of the eyes. Contact lenses...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Eyeglasses and contact lenses are devices that correct refractive errors in vision. Eyeglass lenses are mounted in frames that are worn on the face, sitting mostly on the ears and nose, so that the lenses are positioned in front of the eyes. Conta...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Clear or slightly colored plastic lenses worn directly on the eyeball to correct vision problems, held in place over the cornea by a thin layer of tears. The concept of corrective lenses that sit directly on the eyeball was developed in the ninth ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
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