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A Biomechanical Hypothesis for Myopia Progression Involving Superior Oblique Muscle Traction and Orbital Fat Redistribution

2025-08-11

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The global epidemic of myopia is accelerating, and conventional hypotheses based on genetic growth and uniform tissue remodeling cannot fully account for clinical findings such as adult-onset myopia, unilateral progression, and optic disc tilt. We propose a novel biomechanical hypothesis: sustained downward gaze causes traction via the superior oblique muscle, leading to trochlear translation of the eyeball and as...

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Literature Corpus work: dd5a1844-2dae-552b-8c6a-b222c388ca0a
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202508.0240.v2

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