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Effect of macular stimulation exercise with three primary colors in amblyopic children

Poster Details

First Author: S.Ayachit BAHRAIN

Co Author(s):    A. Al Moosa   A. Asal                 

Abstract Details

Purpose:

To Study the efficacy of our treatment for Amblyopia in children aged 4-10 years by standard occlusion therapy combined with macular stimulation exercise.To develop easy , safe and affordable method of treating amblyopia in children.

Setting:

KING HAMAD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, BAHRAIN ROYAL BAHRAIN HOSPITAL, BAHRAIN

Methods:

Standard amblyopia treatment is patching the normal eye +/-6 hours /day for initial three months.After 3 months: the amblyopic eye is stimulated by macular stimulation exercise using three primary colors along with patching 3 hours/day Figure of 8 Exercise: The child draws a figure of “8” on a white paper sheet with Red, Blue and Green colours50 times with each color on the same figure. Close follow up at 1 month interval

Results:

Total number of patients so far: 75 Age range: 4 to 10 years Maximum follow up: 1 year Drop outs- 6 We compared standard patching treatment with a combined treatment of patching +figure of “8” •Vision recorded on Snellen’s E –chart/picture chart Improvement on Snellen’s visual Acuity Chart- from one to four lines All patients with combined treatment improved by 2 lines or more where as only 25% patients on conventional patching improved by 2 lines. • P : 0.001

Conclusions:

The results so far are encouraging with this new treatment for amblyopia which uses perpetual learning to treat amblyopia in children . we noticed improvement not only in visual acuity but also in illusory tilt perception, contour integration, global motion sensitivity, object enumeration and object tracking in all patients.

Financial Disclosure:

None