Many people don’t like the thought of their eyeballs being touched, even by themselves.
But spare a thought for this man who has undergone a surgical procedure to force his eye to move about in its socket.
A squeamish video shows the surgeon using forceps to drag the patient’s eyeball around.
Doctors carried the procedure out to test his eye movements after the unfortunate man suffered a nasty fall.
Thankfully, the unnamed patient, who was treated in Brazil, appears to be unconscious throughout the procedure.
The unnamed patient needed a procedure to force his eyeball to move after suffering a fall
The man, who was treated in Brazil, sustained an eye injury and needed what is known as a forced duction test
The unfortunate patient had suffered a facial fracture in the accident and an unknown eye injury.
The intervention he had is called a forced duction test, which is carried out to evaluate any restriction in the movement in the muscles of the eye. This could then help doctors provide a diagnosis and decide the best treatment.
The procedure was completed by maxillofacial surgeon Raiza Ramos, 27, at the Regional Hospital of Cotia in the state of São Paulo.
Surgeons used a number of metal medical instruments to carry out the procedure
Dr Raiza said: ‘The video is a forced duction. We had to test the sharpness of the patient’s vision and observe if there was any muscular incarceration.
‘The patient had injured themselves by falling and had fractured the middle third of their face.
‘The procedure took two hours to complete.’
Pus removal
The 37-second clip comes after a video of a surgeon struggling to remove a ball of pus from an eyeball horrified MailOnline readers.
The unnamed patient, believed to be male and from Madrid, is thought to have been suffering from a ‘fat pad’, or pinguecula, in his eye.
In the gruesome footage, ophthalmologist Dr Arteaga Sánchez can be seen struggling to remove the pus from deep within the patient’s eye.
After pulling vigorously, the thick, yellow debris came out in one satisfying bulge.
When held against the patient’s eye, the pus was more than one quarter its size.
It is unknown how the patient recovered or what his vision is now.