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Stargart's Disease
Stargardt’s disease, also known as fundus flavimaculatis, is the most common form or inherited juvenile macular degeneration. Most people suffering from Stargardt’s disease are diagnosed before the age of twenty. By the age of fifty, most patients will be legally blind, having a visual acuity of 20/200 or worse. Individuals with Stargardt’s receiving Microacupuncture treatments experience the same positive results as do macular degeneration patients. The disease behaves very much like AMD, and responds to treatment similarly, although it is generally not complicated by neovascularization.
Over the years, many Stargardt’s patients have benefited from Microacupuncture treatments at the Arkansas Therapy Center. Patients coming to the clinic for treatment of Stargardt’s disease range in age from nine to sixty years.