strabismus

My interest in ophthalmology is mostly cultivated by my eye condition. The following video is of a strabismus and nystagmus surgery similar to the procedure done on my left eye.

In a recession procedure, your eye surgeon detaches the affected outside muscle (extraocular muscle) from the eye and reattaches it (resection) farther back on the eye to weaken the relative strength of the muscle if it is too strong. Looking at my anatomy book it seems that the muscle is the lateral rectus muscle (rectus meaning straight in Latin). The Rectus Fermoris as an example is one of the four quadriceps muscles of the human body. The Rectus Abdominis muscle (commonly known as “abs”) is a paired muscle running vertically across your abdominal region.