Video games to avoid discomfort after a cataract operation: this is how the Spanish company OpticTrain works

A Spanish company has devised a title to improve the postoperative treatment of patients suffering from this disease.

Recreation of a user using the OpticTrain video game after cataract surgery. OpticTrain

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Having vision-related diseases is something that most people will have to experience throughout their lives. Among the most common, we find those known as waterfalls, an opacity that develops in the lens and reduces the vision of the affected person. Its operation is so simple and routine that millions of people go through it. operating room to remove them. However, after the operation, it is really useful retrain eyesight so that it adapts to the new situation and this is where the Spanish company OpticTrain enters.

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Cataract, vision and postoperative training with OpticTrain

The Spanish company has already published a study in the journal Innovations in Neurorehabilitation and Neuroplasticity in which it details the program they develop to help people who have just undergone cataract surgery. First of all, it should be made clear that we are talking about a software company, so we are talking about a program that runs from a device, in this case a tablet. Through a videogamewe are not talking about classic Windows games or Clash Royale, you can improve neuroadaptation of patients cataract surgery with multifocal intraocular lenses.

They create the first technology to prevent visual discomfort in patients operated on for cataracts with a multifocal intraocular lens.
OpticTrain is a gamification-based visual training technology that improves vision and neuroadaptation.
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The responsible for its creation are a team of researchers made up of david pinerospecialist in Optics and Optometry from the University of Alicante, Miguel Maldonadoophthalmologist at the University of Valladolid, and begona coconut, specialist in visual rehabilitation from the University of Valladolid. This team has developed a software, in which the patient will have to launch try a video game that, almost invisibly, will go stimulating certain areas of the brain so that the person adapts it to the images that appear on the screen.

One of the fundamental elements of this technology is the system of gaze tracking. In addition to the fact that the video game itself has a narrative typical of the sector, while the patient uses the tablet to recover visual sensations, a series of mini-games will force the appearance of different types of stimuli. They are two the objectives that are pursued: stimulate the patient so that he can see better and cause your brain take in complex images. The software has already been tested on a clinical trial and it has been a real successso much so that researchers already have in mind promoting its use in patients with other types of intraocular lenses or with visual anomalies.

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