Strabology

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The Strabismus (also Strabismology , Greek στραβός Strabo , German , Squint ' ) is a special discipline of ophthalmology . It deals preventively, diagnostically and therapeutically with all types and effects of strabismus diseases , eye muscle imbalance disorders , nystagmus and ocular-related forced head postures . Common conservative diagnostic and therapeutic methods can be found in orthoptics and pleoptics . Surgical treatments include a wide variety of eye muscle operations that influence the mechanics, mobility and position of the eyes in relation to one another. In addition to appropriately trained ophthalmologists, orthoptists in particular are among the specialists working in strabology. This area is practiced in the corresponding specialist departments ( colloquially: visual schools ), which can be found at almost all eye clinics and in many ophthalmological practices.

Alfred Bielschowsky is named as one of the important protagonists of this comparatively young science , who at the end of the 19th century together with the physiologist Ewald Hering laid the foundations for his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of strabology, and which are still valid today. The spread and recognition of strabology as a medical specialty from the 1950s is largely due to Curt Cüppers .

Well-known strabologists

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literature

  • Angelika K. Kaufmann: Alfred Bielschowsky (1871–1940) A life for strabology . Inaugural dissertation from the Faculty of Human Medicine at Justus Liebig University (printing approved in October 1994). German university publications , ISBN 3-8267-1042-8 , Verlag Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Egelsbach / Frankfurt / Washington
  • Herbert Kaufmann: Strabismus . With the collaboration of W. de Decker u. a. Enke, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-432-95391-7
  • Josef Lang: Microstrabismus . Library of the ophthalmologist, booklet 62. Enke, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-432-83502-7

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