=Treatment.=—Often the treatment is troublesome and the case is very
obstinate according to old school methods. Rest, hygiene, general
health and habits are looked after. The cause must be found or the
treatment cannot be specific.
These are the different forms of eye strain as ordinarily classified.
Now as we study the reflex symptoms from these and attempt to trace
out the reflexes from an osteopathic point of view, we may find some
more definite causes of these conditions and consequently some methods
of treatment not found in standard text books might naturally suggest
themselves.
Reflex symptoms that have been traced to eye strain by ophthalmologists
are as follows:
Constipation, indigestion, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, nervous
attacks, fear of impending calamity, irritability, despondency,
insomnia, restless sleep, epilepsy, nervous twitchings and enuresis.
All these symptoms have been seen to disappear after eye strain was
corrected. There is no absolute way of proving that all these symptoms
have existed because of eye strain. The existence and disappearance
of some of them at the time of treatment for eye strain may be a
coincidence. It is evident that eye strain in varying degrees may
produce a train of symptoms similar to many above mentioned.
A patient, nervous, anxious, uneasy, and despondent, constipated,
and having some indigestion, showed on examination contractures and
tenderness at the third dorsal. It was found he was suffering from eye
strain from overuse of glasses that were too strong for him. The eyes
were refitted. He was wearing a
(R)+4.50 D. S. = +.50 cyl. Ax. 180.
(L)+4.50 D. S. = +.50 cyl. Ax. 90
for close work and a (R)+2.00 D. S. = +.50 cyl. Ax. 180
(L)+2.50 D. S. = +.25 cyl. Ax. 90
for distance. The new glasses were—Reading—
(R)+3.00 D. S. = +.25 cyl. Ax. 180
(L)+3.00 D. S. = +.25 cyl. Ax. 180
Distance:
(R) + 1.50 D. S. = +.25 cyl. Ax. 180
(L) + 1.50 D. S. = +.25 cyl. Ax. 180
He was fitted two years previously. At that time the stronger glasses
were correct. Eyes change more or less constantly, especially between
the ages thirty-five to fifty-five years. When glasses are fitted, a
weak ciliary muscle after a rest may become stronger and allow weaker
glasses to be worn.
If a young person is fitted for myopia, in a few years he may discard
his glasses as presbyopia develops. A person fitted correctly, who has
a strong ciliary muscle may not be able for awhile to see as well with
the glasses as without them. After they are worn awhile the ciliary
muscle will cease its efforts to accommodate so much and the glasses
give the desired effect. In some cases the doctor’s reputation to fit
glasses properly may suffer at the hands of such people who sometimes
refuse to take glasses, or after getting them refuse to wear them.
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