BASICS OF COMPLETE BIOMECHANICAL MODELS FOR STRABISMUS

Abstract

Diagnosis and treatment of strabismus are based mostly on simple heuristics, shared experience and intuition. Consequently, unusual and complex strabismus cases may be difficult to manage. A description of the mechanisms of binocular coordination – a model – attacks these problems in a new way: experience, intuition and experimental findings go into building and testing the model, and then the model, less impaired by unfamiliarity and complexity, is used in case management. This paper is a review of the most important biomechanical models for strabismus used in scientific world.