Effectiveness of Occular Muscle exercises on degree of Myopia

Abstract

There is an ever-rising prevalence of myopia in our population. Many individuals are being diagnosed with myopia; however, the treatment for myopia is relatively the same. Evidence has shown that there is the involvement of extraocular muscles as well in the development of myopia. These muscles can be trained and may prove useful in improving myopia. Thus it is important to study the effects of ocular exercises on myopia. The objective of this study was to find out the effect of ocular muscle exercises on the degree of myopia. There was a total of 46 subjects who were willing participants of this study. Pre-intervention and post-intervention visual acuity was analyzed. The experimental group received ocular exercises, and the control group was advised to follow a routine for six weeks. There was no significant effect of ocular muscle exercises on the degree of myopia post-intervention (p = 0.3275). Based on the result of the study, it can be said that the ocular exercise does not affect the improvement in the visual acuity in an individual. Similarly, the ocular muscle exercises were not effective in improving the degree of myopia.