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Oliver Sacks was the first to make the story of Susan Barry, whom he nicknamed "Stereo Sue", known to the general public.. Stereopsis recovery has been reported to have occurred in a few adults as a result of either medical treatments including strabismus surgery and vision therapy, or spontaneously after a stereoscopic 3D cinema experience.
Collins says that "an eye massager mask offers a non-pharmaceutical way to relax muscles, reduce tension and encourage rest, helping relieve symptoms tied to these hormonal shifts."
The first retinal gene therapy to be approved by the FDA was Voretigene neparvovec in 2017, which treats Leber's congenital amaurosis, a genetic disorder that can lead to blindness. These treatments also use subretinal injections of AAV vector and are therefore foundational to research in gene therapy for color blindness. [2] [3]
Vision restoration therapy (VRT) is a noninvasive form of vision therapy which claims to increase the size of the visual fields in those with hemianopia. [1] It, however, is of unclear benefit as of 2017 and is not part of standardized treatment approaches.
Vision therapy (VT), or behavioral optometry, is an umbrella term for alternative medicine treatments using eye exercises, based around the pseudoscientific claim that vision problems are the true underlying cause of learning difficulties, particularly in children. [1]
Corneal opacities (scarring of the cornea that creates an opaque or semi-transparent area on the eye) may be caused by leucoma, keratitis or cataracts. [1] Such opacities can be cosmetically disruptive for patients in their everyday lives. Tattooing the cornea can alter a discoloration, blending an opacity into the normal eye color.
Avicenna (980–1037), seeing color as of vital importance both in diagnosis and in treatment, discussed chromotherapy in The Canon of Medicine. He wrote that "color is an observable symptom of disease" and also developed a chart that related color to the temperature and physical condition of the body. His view was that red moved the blood ...
Orthokeratology lens. Orthokeratology, also referred to as Night lenses, Ortho-K, OK, Overnight Vision Correction, Corneal Refractive Therapy (CRT), Accelerated Orthokeretology, Cornea Corrective Contacts, Eccentricity Zero Molding, and Gentle Vision Shaping System (GVSS), is the use of gas-permeable contact lenses that temporarily reshape the cornea to reduce refractive errors such as myopia ...