Binocular amblyopia treatment improves manual dexterity.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether deficits in manual dexterity in children with amblyopia improve after binocular amblyopia treatment and whether improvements are related to age at treatment, baseline sensory status, or amount of improvement in sensory status with treatment.

Methods

Manual dexterity (Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2), visual acuity, fusion, suppression, and stereoacuity were measured at baseline and after 4-8 weeks of binocular amblyopia in 134 children with amblyopia, including 75 children in the "younger group" (aged 3 to <7 years) and 59 in the "older group" (aged 7-10 years), and in 40 age-similar control children.

Results

Baseline manual dexterity standard scores of amblyopic children were significantly below those of controls in both the yo

SUBMITTER: Birch EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9974856 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature