Patent ID: 7354156
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: A61B,A61H

Abstract:
1. A method for restoring healthy vision to the damaged eyes of a subject, comprising: (a) establishing a visual target; (b) during the entire time of the method, (1) keeping a vertical line through said visual target parallel to corresponding vertical lines through the centers of the planes of the pupils (2) maintaining a line horizontally through the pupils' centers parallel to a horizontal line through the visual target, during vertical angular displacements of the head; (3) maintaining the fixation of the eyes on the central part of the visual target; (c) starting from a value of j=0, and where the starting horizontal and vertical angular displacements of the head are (0,0): (i) while incrementing the index i by 1, slowly rotating the subject's head by a first angle approximately α(j)β(j), where α is the ith horizontal excursion and β(j) is the jth vertical excursion; (ii) stopping said rotating and performing about n eye blinks; and (iii) repeating steps (i) and (ii) of said procedure, until the total of τ steps are taken.