[The problem of crossed eye-hand dominance (author's transl)].

The manual and visual dominance of one side has in recent times attracted much attention from many aspects. Crossed dominance (right eye - left hand) seems significant in strabismus of childhood. For the first time recently it has become obvious, that the structure of the body and its muscles, especially of the trunk is asymmetrical. Even in normal persons the centre of gravity of the body is not in the midline, but displaced usually some distance to the left. We have examined the stabilographic proportions in 30 normal and 30 squinting children. In the normal children, with closed eyes the centre of gravity of the body was displaced in 80% to the right, in the quinting children this point was in 73% displaced to the left. We can deduce from this, that the marked right-eye dominance in squinting children is responsible for the displacement of the centre of gravity. If the right eye is open, then the vertical body-axis tends a little to the left. This tendency demands an increase of muscle tone on the left side of the body and with this a displacement of the body centre of gravity to the left; this not only, when the right eye is open, but also, when both eyes are opened or closed. From our experience this adjustment is especially suited to normalise the working together of the hand and the eye in squinting children.