Weak eye muscles can heal once they are treated such as through surgery, patching, medications and even eye exercises.
Sometimes weak eye muscles can be cured completely if treated soon enough.
Eye exercises can help to strengthen eye muscles and improve your eye coordination.
Covering your stronger eye with a patch will force your weaker eye to work harder and strengthen it and in some cases eye drops or Botox injects can also help to realign your eyes.
And surgery can also be used to correct eye muscle imbalances by tightening, loosening or even repositioning the eye muscles.
And vision therapy can also help the eye muscles heal, which involves a series of exercises and activities that are designed to improve your eye coordination and focus.
The symptoms of weak eye muscles are double vision, blurred vision, droopy eyelids, eye strain, headaches, light sensitivity, difficulty in concentrating, feeling like you cannot keep your eyes open, and other symptoms such as watery eyes, pain between your eyes and forehead and burning eyes can also occur.
When your eye muscles are weak you may see two of one image, which may be horizontal or vertical and have difficulty in focusing and maintaining clear vision, especially for close up tasks and one or both of your eyelids may droop down and your eyes may be sore, tired, burn or be itchy and you may have pain in your forehead, temples around your eyes and you may have increased sensitivity to light and problems with reading, learning and other tasks that require focus.
A sensation of eye fatigue can also occur with weak eye muscles.
Weak eye muscles are caused by several different things which include eye strain, muscle disorders and even nerve damage.
Other things that can cause weak eye muscles are stroke, thyroid eye disease, and even myasthenia gravis which can all affect the muscles that are responsible for eye movement.
Even prolonged use of computer screens, tablets, and phones that you look at can lead to eye muscle weakness.
Weak eye muscles can also occur if the nerves which transmit signals to your eye muscles become damaged, like in the cases of brain tumors, head injury or stroke.
Myasthenia Gravis can also lead to weak eye muscles which is an autoimmune disorder which causes your body to attack the nerve muscle junction that leads to muscle weakness which includes the eye muscles.
Ophthalmoplegia is also another condition that can cause weak eye muscles and is the paralysis or weakness of the eye muscles and can stem or result from various different neurological causes.
Muscle disorders that can cause weak eye muscles are myotonic dystophy, Graves Disease "Thyroid Eye Disease", Kearns Sayre Syndrome, Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy and Strabismus which is eye misalignment also known as Amblyopia or Lazy eye.
Myotonic Dystrophy is a condition that is inherited and causes progressive muscle weakness that can affect your eye muscles.
Graves Disease or thyroid eye disease is an autoimmune condition in which the thyroid gland becomes overactive and the immune system then attacks your eye muscles and causes weakness and other eye problems.
Kearns Sayre Syndrome can also cause weak eye muscles and is a mitochondrial disorder which can affect your eye muscles and cause progressive weakness or paralysis.
Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy or OPMD is a condition that can cause weakness in the eye muscles and throat muscles.
And Strabismus or Lazy eye is a condition that can result from abnormal visual development or experience early in life and affect the communication between your eyes and your brain.
The muscles that are affected by eye strain is primarily your ciliary muscles which are responsible for focusing your eyes and your extraocular muscles that control your eye movement.
When you focus too long with your eyes such as when reading or working on a computer it can cause the extraocular muscles and ciliary muscles to fatigue and cause eye strain symptoms.
Eye strain occurs when the muscles which focus your eyes become tired.
The ciliary muscles change the shape of the lens in the eye and the can also bend the lens in different ways so that you are able to focus on near or far objects.
When you use these muscles for long periods of time it can lead to eye strain.
The ciliary muscles help you see by enabling the eyes to focus on objects at different distances.
Your ciliary muscles control the shape of the eyes lens and allow it to change from a flatter shape for distant vision and then to a rounder shape for near vision which is a process called accommodation that is essential for you to have clear vision at varying distances.
The ciliary muscles are smooth muscles which surround the lens and when they contract, they then relax the zonular fibers "ligaments which hold the lens in place", which allows the lens to become more rounded and conversely when they relax, the zonular fibers become taut and flatten the lens.
If the ciliary muscles are weakened it causes difficulty in focusing on objects at various distances and most specifically at near distances.
When the ciliary muscles are weakened it can result in presbyopia as well as the age related loss of accommodation ability and require corrective lenses to see things clearly at a close range.
If the ciliary muscles do not work properly then you may experience blurry vision, and most particularly blurry vision at near distances.
And if the ciliary muscles don't work properly you can also have difficulty in focusing on objects that are close up which is often associated with presbyopia, which is a condition that affects your eye's ability to accommodate or change shape and to focus on near objects.