Aditi Chinmay Deshpande
Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, India
Title: Amblyopia And Its Management With Vision Therapy Program
Biography
Biography: Aditi Chinmay Deshpande
Abstract
Statement of the Problem: Amblyopia is a developmental disorder resulting from anomalous binocular visual input early in life in the absence of visible ocular or visual pathway disease caused by an uncorrected refractive error, strabismus or form and light sense deprivation. Those with amblyopia may suffer from poor visual acuity, poor special acuity, and low sensitivity to contrast, impaired stereoacuity and abnormal binocular summation. In children, undetected and untreated amblyopia may preclude children’s visual development and impair productive participation in society.
Purpose: To assess the course of amblyopia treated with vision therapy exercises in children.
Method: A total of 50 subjects ageing from 3–11 years were enrolled in this hospital based study. All the subjects had undergone preliminary eye examination to rule out various types of amblyopia. The visual acuity measured with Snellen’s Visual Acuity chart and stereo-acuity measured with TNO test were compared, for the amblyopic subjects before and after giving vision therapy exercises along with patching at three months, six months and nine months of follow-ups, respectively using statistical analysis.
Results: Of the 50 subjects examined, 15 were having strabismic amblyopia and 35, refractive amblyopia. The mean visual acuity of strabismic amblyopic subjects was 0.38 before treatment and was found to be clinically significant after treatment (0.54), but showed no statistically significant difference. Similarly, clinically significant difference was found between mean visual acuity of uniocular and binocular refractive amblyopic subjects compared before and after treatment. There was statistically significant difference found between stereoacuity measured before treatment and after treatment in subjects with refractive (p=0.001) and strabismic (p=<0.001) type of amblyopia.
Conclusion: This study proved that vision therapy exercises were effective treatment therapy in subjects with refractive and strabismic amblyopia which showed significant improvement in visual acuity and stereoacuity.
Recent Publications
- Chinmay Deshpande, Dipti Amod Gogate and Aditi Deshpande (2017) The functional impact of amblyopia on visual skills in children. Delhi Journal of Ophthalmology 28(2):26–31.