Symptomatic vergence disorders in junior high school children in Ghana

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  • Charles Darko-Takyi
  • Naimah E. Khan
چکیده

Studies by Scheiman et al. on a clinical paediatric population1 and Lara et al. on a clinic population aged 10–35 years2 reported that the most common vision disorder after ametropia was binocular vision disorders. In comparison with certain ocular diseases also, binocular vision disorders are regularly diagnosed.3 Vergence disorders (binocular vision disorders4 functionally classified descriptively by clinical signs as convergence insufficiency, convergence excess, divergence insufficiency, divergence excess, basic exophoria, basic esophoria and fusional vergence dysfunctions5) have considerable impact on learning, social life and academic achievement in general6 and thus can have significant negative effects on quality of life.3

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تاریخ انتشار 2016