CLINICAL ORTHOPTICS

The Practice of Orthoptics

Practical Orthoptics in the Treatment of Squint

SQUINT.?By K. Lyle, M.A., M.D., M.Chir. l^antab.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.;, ana S. Jackson. 1937. H. K. Lewis and Company, Limited, London. Pp. xiv plus 211 with 68 illustrations including 5 plates. Price, 12s. 6d. The early treatment of squint by exercises to abnormal retinal correspondence and suppression is perhaps new to many doctors in India. Although some ophthalmologists do not...

A randomized clinical trial of vision therapy/orthoptics versus pencil pushups for the treatment of convergence insufficiency in young adults.

PURPOSE : The purpose of this article is to compare vision therapy/orthoptics, pencil pushups, and placebo vision therapy/orthoptics as treatments for symptomatic convergence insufficiency in adults 19 to 30 years of age. METHODS : In a randomized, multicenter clinical trial, 46 adults 19 to 30 years of age with symptomatic convergence insufficiency were randomly assigned to receive 12 weeks ...

Practical Orthoptics in the Treatment of Squint and Other Anomalies of Binocular Vision

Different rates of functional recovery of eye movements during orthoptics treatment in an adult amblyope.

Although it is common clinical knowledge that oculomotor control appears to normalize during the course of successful orthoptics therapy for amblyopia, reports providing a quantitative analysis of eye movements during extended periods of treatment are lacking. We provide for the first time such a report in an adult amblyope. Aspects of eye movement control that tended to normalize with therapy ...