The Nonsurgical Treatment of Nonparalytic Strabismus

Abstract

This presentation is based on a study of cases of strabismus with and without amblyopia and cases of amblyopia without strabismus. Emphasis in treatment is placed on the general health especially in early cases. The difference between the presence of a fusion faculty and the demonstration of good fusional activity is emphasized. The value of equal ocular efficiency is stressed. The question of the relation of the error of refraction to the incidence and treatment of strabismus is discussed. Minimal errors of refraction are tentatively submitted, below which prescription for the effect on the strabismus is of very questionable value. No attempt is made to give statistics of successes and failures, but only to inquire into the probable causes therefor. Read before the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Section of the California Medical Association at the sixty-fourth annual session at Yosemite National Park, May 13–16, 1935. This presentation is based on a study of cases of strabismus with and without amblyopia and cases of amblyopia without strabismus. Emphasis in treatment is placed on the general health especially in early cases. The difference between the presence of a fusion faculty and the demonstration of good fusional activity is emphasized. The value of equal ocular efficiency is stressed. The question of the relation of the error of refraction to the incidence and treatment of strabismus is discussed. Minimal errors of refraction are tentatively submitted, below which prescription for the effect on the strabismus is of very questionable value. No attempt is made to give statistics of successes and failures, but only to inquire into the probable causes therefor. Read before the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Section of the California Medical Association at the sixty-fourth annual session at Yosemite National Park, May 13–16, 1935.