NIH R01 · 2024
Biomechanical Analysis in Strabismus Surgery
We propose 3 interrelated aims to define the biomechanics of the extraocular (eye rotating) muscles and optic nerve in health and visual disease, understand novel extraocular muscle actions that maintain binocular alignment, and characterize mechanical effects that may contribute to glaucoma and severe myopia (nearsightedness). We aim to improve treatment of strabismus, misalignment of visual directions of the eyes, as well as glaucoma, a common blinding optic nerve disease; and gain insight into the cause of high axial myopia, an eye elongation and shape distortion that has become a worldwide epidemic and major cause of blindness. These conditions may all be related to the actions of the…
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