The influence of phoria-type and myopia on changes to vergence and accommodation during prolonged near-task was examined in 53 children. Participants were classified into phoria and refractive categories based on near phoria and cycloplegic refraction respectively. Measures of near phoria, binocular (BA) and monocular accommodation (MA) were obtained before and during a 20 min task when childre...

Several models of myopia predict that growth of axial length is stimulated by blur. Accommodative lag has been suggested as an important source of blur in the development of myopia and this study has modeled how cross-link interactions between accommodation and convergence might interact with uncorrected distance heterophoria and refractive error to influence accommodative lag. Accommodative la...

AIM To study the prevalence of nearpoint vergence anomalies (convergence insufficiency, convergence excess and fusional vergence dysfunction) and association with gender, age groups, grade level and study site (suburban and rural). METHODS The study design was cross sectional and data was analyzed for 1201 high school students aged 13-19 years who were randomly selected from 13 high schools i...

PURPOSE Develop a paradigm to map binocular perceptual visual distortions in adult amblyopes and visually normal controls, measure their stability over time, and determine the relationship between strength of binocular single vision and distortion magnitude. METHODS Perceptual visual distortions were measured in 24 strabismic, anisometropic, or microtropic amblyopes (interocular acuity differ...

BACKGROUND To describe and compare visual function measures of two groups of school age children (6-14 years of age) attending a specialist eyecare practice in Austria; one group referred to the practice from educational assessment centres diagnosed with reading and writing difficulties and the other, a clinical age-matched control group. METHODS Retrospective clinical data from one group of ...

Aims: To determine what practising orthoptists consider to be a normal AC/A ratio and on what evidence this is based. To assess which method of measurement is most commonly used and whether the ratio itself contributes to the diagnosis and management of strabismus in current practice. Methods: A prospective cross-sectional survey was designed and distributed to all orthoptists registered with t...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in accommodation and binocular vision parameters during a period of 3 years and to evaluate their potential influence on the refractive changes observed over the same period of time in a population of university students in Portugal. METHODS A 3-year longitudinal study was conducted comprising 118 young adults (34 males and 84 femal...

PURPOSE To investigate whether nonstrabismic typically developing young children are capable of exhibiting vergence adaptation. METHODS Fifteen adults (19.5-35.8 years) and 34 children (2.5-7.3 years) provided usable data. None wore habitual refractive correction. Eye position and accommodation were recorded using Purkinje image eye tracking and eccentric photorefraction (MCS PowerRefractor)....

BACKGROUND Prolong near work, especially among people with uncorrected refractive error is considered a potential source of visual symptoms. The present study aims to determine the visual symptoms and the association of those with refractive errors among Thangka artists. METHODS In a descriptive cross-sectional study, 242 (46.1%) participants of 525 thangka artists examined, with age ranged b...