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We usually straighten eyes by shortening (recessing) muscles, which is thought to weaken them, or stretching (resecting, plicating, tucking, etc.) muscles, which is thought to tighten or strengthen them. When muscles are recessed, there are two different effects. An acutely shortened muscle should be weaker because of Starling’s law on muscle contraction, which states that the more a muscle is stretched, the greater its force of contraction.

Surgeons must be very careful

When they take the knife.

Underneath their fine incisions

Stirs the culprit,—life!

—Emily Dickinson

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Kushner, B.J. (2017). Strabismus Surgery. In: Strabismus. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63019-9_10

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