TY - JOUR
AU - Aleksankin, V.
AB - INFORMATION V. F. Aleksankin UDC 615.472:617.7-085.82-78 The beneficial effect of massage has long been known in ophthalmic practice. The effect of massage upon the eye tissues is to increase arterial blood circulation and accelerate the efflux of venous blood and the circulation of watery (duct) secretion [1-3]. In 1893, Professor A. N. Maklakov [4] first suggested a special vibratory device, the "Edison electric quill" for performing eye massage treatment. This device was used earlier for tattooing corneal cataracts. The principle of action of this device was electromagnetic vibration of a metal rod to the end of which was fixed a massaging head in the form of a bulb made of elephant hide. The vibrator was held by hand during massage and the intensity of the massagingforcewas controlled by increasing or reducing the pressure of the vibrating bulb upon the eyeball. A. N. Maklakov's vibrator was widely used for the treatment of glau- coma and other eye diseases [5-7]. However, its use was not extended for further types of treatment be- cause its construction lacked means of precise and predetermined degree of pressure of the massaging bulb upon the eyeball during treatment. We have put forward a new construction of 
TI - An appliance for eye massage
JF - Biomedical Engineering
DO - 10.1007/BF00556659
DA - 2004-10-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/an-appliance-for-eye-massage-qemrArxefd
SP - 317
EP - 318
VL - 5
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -