2023-11-21 13:30:11
DECRYPTION – On medical prescription, a set of techniques can alleviate many visual disorders.
From infants to the elderly, orthoptistes are responsible, on medical prescription, for rehabilitating the failing visual function of patients suffering from strabismus or even learning disabilities. They also support low vision to optimize the use of remaining visual possibilities.
“The various visual disorders that we treat are not always linked to the eye or to a weakness of the oculomotor muscles which allow the eyeball to move, but rather to a neurovisual deficiency. It’s as if the brain had forgotten certain eye movements. explains Marc Fauveau, a liberal orthoptist in the Paris region. “To reprogram it, we ask the patient to make different movements with the eyes. But the goal is not to strengthen the oculomotor muscles which, unlike other muscles in the body, do not seem to tire. This is why I am opposed to the expression “eye physiotherapy” or even “gymnastics…
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