The start of a new school year is always a time of excitement and discoveries. However, it is also when many parents and teachers face concerns and doubts that their child may not be seeing well.
The treatment for strabismus always depends on the patient’s case. It can involve using glasses (with or without optical penalization – the “ocular patch”), orthoptics training, or surgery. These therapeutical options are often complementary and not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Voltar Abnormal head position or ocular torticollis. What is it? – Porto Canal interview An abnormal or compensatory head posture (AHP) occurs when the head is deviated out of its primary and normal straight position. The medical term for an AHP is “torticollis”, deriving from the Latin words “tortus” (twisted) and “collum” (neck). In…
Sim! Aquilo que parece óbvio encontra, com base científica, um resposta populacional positiva, de acordo com um estudo com mais de 2.000 alunos do ensino básico e secundário realizado nas escolas da cidade de Baltimore (EUA) e publicado em Setembro de 2021 na conceituada revista JAMA Ophthalmology.
Estima-se que 4 milhões de pessoas sofram de doenças oculares, mas mais de metade não consulta um médico especialista com regularidade, o que poderá acarretar sequelas na sua saúde e consequentemente na qualidade de vida.
A diplopia é uma sintoma que significa visão dupla ou a dobrar.
É possível haver diplopia monocular, isto é ver a dobrar apenas com um dos olhos (ou seja, quando se está a ver apenas com o olho direito ou esquerdo a visão está a duplicar), ou diplopia binocular , isto é o sintoma só existe quando estamos com os dois olhos abertos.
Nystagmus is a rapid, involuntary and rhythmic eye movement. These trembling, shaking and “dancing” movements usually occur in horizontal or vertical directions.
Do you know you have a unique eye color differing from everybody else’s in the world? This happens because, even if presenting blue eyes just like your brother, each individual hosts a color with distinct forms of emerging and manifesting.
We clinically refer to strabismus when both eyes’ axis are not perfectly aligned, meaning, when they point in different directions. An eye may look straight ahead while the other one is looking inside, outside, up, or down. There are six extraocular muscles monitoring the movement of an eye; to be able to focus on a single image and get a three-dimensional view with depth perception, all muscles from both eyes must work together in a coordinated way.
You have probably heard or read about how spending too much time on computer, smartphone or tablet (digital screens) may lead to permanent eye damage. Fortunately, this is nothing but a lie: just like that old saying about “ruining your eyes” when watching a lot of television or sitting too close to a TV equipment.