Accommodative facility training with a long term follow up in a sample of school aged children showing accommodative dysfunction

The primary aim of this project was to study the effect of flip lens-traini ng on the accommodative function in a group of children with accommodative dysfunction and subjective symptoms such as asthenopia, headache, blurred v ision, and avoidance of near activity. We also wanted to measure the accomm odative facility among the children in comparison with a control group. Ano ther aim of the study was whether flip lens-training increased accommodativ e facility, and to find out if it also had a positive effect on their asthe nopia and related problems also in long term. Following the training period the accommodative facility and accommodative function significantly increa sed and two years after finishing the training period no child had regained any subjective symptoms and the objective findings were almost the same as at the end of facility training period. These results suggest that accommo dative facility training is an efficient method built on loss of symptoms a mong children with accommodative infacility.