Nonsurgical treatment of progressive myopia
Tarutta E.P., Iomdina E.N., Tarasova N.A.

Helmholtz Moscow Research Institute of Eye Diseases

The paper addresses methodologies for prevention and treatment of progressive myopia in children and adolescents: optical-reflex accommodation training, treatment apparatus, physiotherapy, reflexology, massage, home accommodation training combined with instillation and intake of drugs. A comparative evaluation of effectiveness of various methods of treatment apparatus and their combinations is performed. For objective assessment of treatment outcomes dynamics of visual acuity with habitual and best spectacle correction is analyzed, as well as habitual tone of accommodation, the annual gradient of myopia progression. To monitor accommodation state subjective methods were used (measurement of relative accommodation reserves and the volume of absolute accommodation). Objective investigation of accommodation was performed using open-field auto ref/keratometer Grand Seiko. Objective accommodative response and the tone of the resting state of accommodation were assessed. The most effective was the combination of Vizotronik, MACDEL 09 and magnitophoresis with taurine 4%. Pleoptic methods have negative effect on accommodation tone and aquired myopia flow. Higher accommodation tone is associated with higher pace of myopia progression. Reduction of the resting state tone of accommodation after treatment is favorable criterion for the prognosis of further myopia flow.

Key words: myopia, accommodation, the tone of the resting state of accommodation, non-surgical treatment of myopia, pleoptic treatment, open-field auto ref/keratometer Grand Seiko, Strix, MACDEL 09, Vizotronik, magnitophoresis.

For citation: Tarutta E.P., Iomdina E.N., Tarasova N.A. Nonsurgical treatment of progressive myopia // RMJ. Clinical ophthalmology. 2016. № 4. P. 204–210.