Effect of vergence adaptation and positive fusional vergence training on oculomotor parameters

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 487-493

  Thiagarajan, Preethi ^a,b   Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan ^a   Bobier, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC/A RATIOS; ACCOMMODATIVE CONVERGENCE; CLINICAL POPULATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CONCOMITANT REDUCTION; ORTHOPTICS; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME COURSE; VERGENCES; WEDGE PRISMS;

PRISMS;

ACCOMMODATION; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORTHOPTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STRABISMUS;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORTHOPTICS; STRABISMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954624209     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3181e19ec2     Document Type: Article

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