objective massage therapy is one of the most widely used complementary and alternative medicine therapies for children. this study was conducted to determine the effect of swedish massage on the muscle tonicity of children with spastic cerebral palsy (cp). materials & methods this study was a single blind clinical trial conducted on forty children with spastic cp, recruited from clinics of the ...

INTRODUCTION Recurrent or persistent inferior oblique overaction may occur after inferior oblique (IO) recession or anterior transposition. IO nasal and temporal myectomy and anterior-nasal transposition may result in undesirable IO palsy, exotropia, incyclotorsion, or limitation of elevation. Previous studies have shown that a rectus extraocular muscle may be profoundly weakened if the muscle ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate a scaffold-enhanced, light-activated bioadhesive technique as a substitute for sutures in ophthalmic surgery. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Suture use in ophthalmic surgery is technically demanding and time consuming and may be associated with serious complications such as inadvertent ocular penetration, which can result in retinal detachment and endophthalmitis. Bioadhesive sur...

purpose: to evaluate the epidemiology of orbital and preseptal cellulitis in patients admitted to labbafinejed medical center from 1997 to 2007. methods: hospital records of patients were reviewed. personal and clinical characteristics of the patients together with results of treatment and complications of the disease were evaluated. results: during the study period, 93 patients including 54 ca...

Background/Aim: Muscle trauma, vascular injury, and compensatory vasoconstriction during strabismus surgery may cause changes in the choroidal circulation early postoperative period. This study aims to evaluate effect of extraocular muscle on posterior ocular parameters, including central subfield thickness (CST), average retinal (ART), (CT), macular volume (MV). Methods: prospective cohort inc...

Although on cover test the child maintained fixation easily with either eye, he preferred to view with the right eye. A marked left convergent strabismus was present, the deviation being greater on accommodation; the cover test also showed alternating hypertropia. When fixing with the right eye the horizontal deviation was approximately 35A with left hypertropia and when fixing with the left ey...