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Refractive Surgeons Robert K. Maloney and Daniel Durrie have teamed up to help launch a national program, called Focus on Independence, in which eye surgeons provide LASIK or vision correction surgery at no charge to quadriplegics. This program was recently highlighted in New Mobility, a publication for the physically disabled. Click here to see the new mobility article.

According to Dr. Maloney, “For many people glasses are a real nuisance, but to quadriplegics glasses are an actual disability. With the Focus On Independence program, we aim to make day-to-day life a little bit easier for these patients.”

The Focus On Independence program is intended for patients over the age of 18, who have suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury and have lost the use of their hands and/or arms, making it difficult or impossible to put on or take off their glasses without assistance.

While glasses are an inconvenience for most people they can be particularly limiting for quadriplegic patients. If they go from a cold environment indoors their glasses can fog up and they are unable to clean them. If they hit a bump in their wheelchair and their glasses slip down their nose they are unable to push them up. If they need reading glasses they are unable to put them on and off for close work.

http://www.maloneyvi...dependence.html

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Ditto!

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