An iPad game to cure lazy eye in Children

Children with eye problem could soon be treated with video game.Experts have develop an app that can encourages the weaker eye to work harder.

Retina Foundation Researchers has in Dallas has tested the process on youths aged between four (4) to ten (10) years old. They studied over two dozens children who were given an iPad game called 'Dig Rush'; the game involve users to return pieces of gold to carts quickly while minding obstructions.

We can show that with this new binocular treatment we get visual acuity improvement, and maybe now we should be thinking that amblyopia is more of a binocular disease rather than monocular.

'We still need to do a lot of research to figure out if it's going to be worth doing something like this rather than patching.'

The researchers claim their findings could be replicated to movies and not just games and are now developing more games to try and replicate their findings.


Dr David Allamby, founder of London's Focus Clinic, says accessible games could help to remove the 'stigma' from children who suffer with lazy eye.

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