PURPOSE The authors established a surgical treatment for excyclovertical strabismus in which either the inferior rectus muscle or the superior rectus muscle was transposed diagonally. The effects and the safety of the procedure, called skew transposition, were studied. METHODS Eighteen operations using local anesthesia with eye drops were performed on 17 cases, including 10 with superior obli...

background: gait disorder is a common motor complication after stroke. studies have revealed that conventional physiotherapy cannot manage this disorder efficiently; therefore, more studies regarding efficient treatment protocols are crucial. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of compelled weight-bearing approach on muscle activation patterns during walking in individuals w...

EIGHT years ago we published 26 cases of concomitant convergent squint (Foster and Pemberton, 1946), which had been treated conventionally by advancement of the lateral rectus and recession of the medial rectus, plus an elevation or depression of either the medial or lateral rectus insertion, to correct a small vertical error. Our results showed that: (1) elevation of a lateral rectus insertion...

BACKGROUND The use of medial rectus pulley posterior fixation sutures to treat esotropia with convergence excess has limited support in the literature. We describe our results using this technique to treat patients with large near-distance disparities. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed records of patients with accommodative or partially accommodative esotropia and convergence excess 13(Δ) o...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Surgical correction of ocular alignment in patients with third cranial nerve paralysis is challenging, as the unopposed lateral rectus muscle often pulls the eye back to exotropia following surgery. The authors present a simple surgical approach to overcome this difficulty. This approach is also applicable to removal of unwanted overactivity of the lateral rectus in Duane syndro...

ALTHOUGH it has been recognized for a considerable time that operation on a strabismus co-existing with nystagmus may have a beneficial effect on the nystagmus, it does not appear to have been until 1953 that work was published relating to operation on cases of nystagmus with the direct intention of improving this condition. Then, from three different continents within a short time, separate re...

purpose: to report a case of partial agenesis of the inferior rectus muscle in a child who was presented because of ocular misalignment and a deficient depression of the right eye. patient and findings: the patient was a 4-year-old girl. preoperative ct scans confirmed the clinical diagnosis of inferior rectus agenesis. the patient underwent augmented transposition of horizontal recti muscles w...