NEW METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCOMMODATION ASTHENOPY
Objective: To study efficiency of the new method for managing accommodation asthenopies applying eye-occipital electrophoresis with 1% solution of the acetyl salicylic acid prolonged medicinal form. Material and methods. One hundred patients (69 children aged 5 to 17 years and 31 adults aged 20 to 40 years) were observed. Asthenopy types: accommodation spasm, accommodation weakness under I — III grade myopia. The treatment course was 10 — 12 days (10— 12 procedures). Results. The treatment efficiency criteria were the following: vision acuity without correction, myopic refraction change and the relative and absolute accommodation reserves improvement. Positive dynamics was registered in most patients: the vision acuity about 2.2 times increase; the average myopic refraction reduction by 1.0 diopter; the relative accommodation reserves 6 times increase in some cases, the absolute accommodation one — by 2.9 times in the average. Conclusion. The new method of the accommodation asthenopies drug therapy is more efficient as compared with the traditional methods of the orthoptic treatment.