Therapy leads to eye injury

A freak behavioural vision therapy accident was highlighted by two ophthalmologists at the Gold Coast Hospital, Queensland in Eye (advance online publication, August 17).

They reported that a 43-year-old woman attended the hospital suffering a large corneal laceration. She had been hit in the eye when assisting her son with a visual motor integration therapy exercise for the treatment of reading dysfunction.

The patient's son was striking a tennis ball, attached with a hook to a piece of string that hung from the ceiling, with a wooden rolling pin ringed by coloured bands towards a target held by his mother.