Efficacy of Exercise Program for Facedown Posture-related Pain After Retinal Surgery

Exercise training will be conducted by a physical therapist which will take about 10 to 15 minutes. Patient education will include how to keep face down in various postures, and how to actively exercise the related muscles and joints while maintaining face-down posture through video clip and brochure. Patients will go through three times of self-exercise sessions everyday according to the training provided to the patients. Active exercise for the FDP patients will include exercise in a hands and knees position, limb exercise in an FDP, and exercise in a standing position. The exercises were performed within the range of individual muscle strength and fitness.