Vision training program for myopia management.

E Friedman

doi:10.1097/00006324-198107000-00006

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Vision training program for myopia management.

E Friedman

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The use of vision training to stabilize myopia appears to be helpful for many patients, while remaining ineffective for others. The myopia management approach discussed here includes minimum use of full-powered concave corrective lenses, maximum use of convex training glasses, adherence to specific visual hygiene and visuobehavioral guidelines, and a short intense program of home and office visual training procedures aimed at developing more flexible accommodative convergence (CCA) and visuobehavioral responses.

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E Friedman. 1981. Vision training program for myopia management.. https://doi.org/10.1097/00006324-198107000-00006

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