Have you ever tried to get medicine into a young child to help them feel better? Not a pleasant experience for either. Have you ever tried to convince a child that glasses really are the best option to help their vision and that other kids won't tease them too much? Again, bit of a 'bang your head against a brick wall' kind of time. The same will certainly apply to recommended exercises for children from physiotherapists all the way through to opticians in an attempt to help them help themselves. A new iPad application hopes to solve this issue in the case of lazy eye.
Hoping to benefit from the surge in demand for tablet PC's and their effective brand of cool, an IT software developer, IdeaBus Inc, has created an app on the hugely popular Apple AppStore for iPad which is designed to help children suffering from amblyopia, or lazy eye. Generally, the treatment revolves around repetitive co-ordinative exercises, strengthening the eye. It is the tediousness of such challenges that, although easy to start, end up becoming boring and tiresome for the child in question, leading them to slack on their exercise duties. 'Captain Lazy Eye' hopes to change this by creating the same form of treatment in an interactive application that not only helps the patients vision but is also fun and enjoyable so as to encourage the child to continue and keep up their exercises.
The app also incorporates real time monitoring, allow children to see a physical diagram of how well they are doing as well showing parents their progress and results. This in turn will give a physical record and account which opticians and eye care specialists can use to document how well treatments are working for the individual. By wrapping this tedious chore into a fun packed package, the creators hope that many children will see drastic improvements in their eye sight and vision.
To find out more visit: http://www.ideabus.com.tw/lazyeye