Keratoconus prognosis study for patients with corneal external mechanical stress mode.

Purpose: To demonstrate the correlation between excessive eye rubbing and corneal degeneration for Keratoconus patients.

Materials And Methods: Keratoconus (KC) patients who regularly rub their eyes had shown a rapid degeneration rate of their affected corneas. This observation is experimentally and numerical discussed and developed based on clinical data of 8 of KC Patients with a mean age of 26.