purpose : to present a patient with radiation chiasma neuropathy, secondary to radiotherapy of paranasal sinus lymphoma who was referred for evaluation of gradual decrease of vision in both eyes case report : the patient was a 38-year-old male, with history of right maxillary sinus lymphoma, who underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. one year after radiotherapy, he noticed gradu...

Aim: To find the effect of Methotrexate therapy on visual functions (visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, color vision, glare field) and ocular adnexa
 Study Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study
 Place Duration: College Ophthalmology Allied Vision Sciences (COAVS), Mayo Hospital Lahore from September 2016 to November 2016.
 Material Methods: A total 30 patients having psoria...

Considerable disparity lies between ophthalmologic impressions of optometric vision therapy, and the reality of optometric vision therapy as practiced in the United States. The viewpoint shared by ophthalmology in particular, and the medical field in general, is one that is filtered through organizational policy statements and the isolated experiences of influential individual practitioners. Th...

PURPOSE To report the frequency of binocular vision (BV) anomalies in children with specific learning disorders (SLD) and to assess the efficacy of vision therapy (VT) in children with a non-strabismic binocular vision anomaly (NSBVA). METHODS The study was carried out at a centre for learning disability (LD). Comprehensive eye examination and binocular vision assessment was carried out for 9...

PURPOSE This research quantified clinical measurements and functional neural changes associated with vision therapy in subjects with convergence insufficiency (CI). METHODS Convergence and divergence 4° step responses were compared between 13 control adult subjects with normal binocular vision and four CI adult subjects. All CI subjects participated in 18 h of vision therapy. Clinical paramet...

Learning disabilities are a common problem in the pediatric population. Dyslexia, defined as a specific reading disability, affects 80% of individuals with learning disabilities, and 5 to 17% of the general population. Some individuals with learning disabilities also have difficulty in areas such as memory or mathematical calculations. Because of the complex multifactorial nature of learning di...

The aim of this study was to compare the therapeutic effects of rhGH administered either by subcutaneous needle-injection (pens) or subcutaneous needle-free jet-injection (VISION(®)). Furthermore, a survey was carried out after using VISION(®) for 12 mo. A needle-free injection group consisting of 18 subjects (11 males and 7 females, mean age 5.87 ± 2.05 yr at the start of hGH therapy) who have...

Vision therapy is prescribed to treat diagnosed conditions of the visual system. Effective therapy requires visual skills to be developed until they are integrated with other systems and become automatic, enabling people to achieve their full potential. The goals of a prescribed vision therapy treatment regimen are to achieve desired visual outcomes, alleviate the signs and symptoms, meet the p...