Rehabilitation after surgical treatment of retrobulbar tumors

Otolaryngol Pol. 2020 May 13;74(5):7-10. doi: 10.5604/01.3001.0014.1388.

Abstract

The authors propose a set of rehabilitation exercises concerning the muscles which are responsible for movement of the eyeball. After surgical treatments of retrobulbar tumors, the function of the eyeball muscles is often inadequate. Some compensation should be created at the level of the central nervous system, which means trigging adaptation, substitution and habituation. The exercises should be started just after the patient is awakened: first in the horizontal position, then sitting position and finally standing position. The highest number of exercises should be done in the direction of extreme diplopia.

Keywords: diplopia; orbit’s tumors; rehabilitation of the muscles which are responsible for the movement of the eyeball; surgery of the orbit.

MeSH terms

  • Diplopia
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms*
  • Orbit*