Eye Muscle Surgery
With approximately 1.2 million procedures each year, extraocular muscle surgery is the third most common eye surgery in the United States .
- Eye muscle surgery typically corrects strabismus and includes the following :
- Loosening / weakening procedures
- Recession involves moving the insertion of a muscle posteriorly towards its origin.
- Myectomy
- Myotomy
- Tenectomy
- Tenotomy
- Tightening / strengthening procedures
- Resection
- Tucking
- Advancement is the movement of an eye muscle from its original place of attachment on the eyeball to a more forward position.
- Transposition / repositioning procedures
- Adjustable suture surgery is a method of reattaching an extraocular muscle by means of a stitch that can be shortened or lengthened within the first post-operative day, to obtain better ocular alignment .
- Loosening / weakening procedures
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