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A visão é um sentido muito importante para o ser humano, visto que é através dele que se capta a maioria das informações existentes ao nosso redor. Desta forma, é importante verificar a existência de problemas visuais o mais cedo possível e, se aplicável, devem os mesmos ser tratados celeradamente, de modo a obtermos a máxima eficiência visual.
A terapia visual é um tratamento não cirúrgico que consiste num conjunto de exercícios que tem como objetivo re-educar e/ou estimular o sistema visual, de modo a aumentar e/ou restabelecer a eficiência visual. Esta terapia pode ser utilizada para corrigir vários tipos de problemas visuais, desde problemas binoculares, acomodativos e oculomotores, dificuldades de aprendizagem, stress visual ao perto e problemas refrativos, mais propriamente a miopia. No entanto o recurso a este tipo de tratamento é pouco frequente.
Este estudo tem como finalidade verificar se a terapia visual dinamizada em grupo apresenta resultados satisfatórios, isto é, averiguar se a terapia visual realizada em grupo, leva a melhoramentos, quer seja a nível da intensidade dos sintomas e/ou de dados optométricos (nomeadamente, nos testes binoculares e nos testes acomodativos).
Participaram 47 sujeitos, com idades compreendidas entre 12 e 40 anos, dos quais 28 pertencem ao grupo experimental, grupo que efetuou terapia visual, e os restantes 19 pertenciam ao grupo controlo, grupo que não beneficiou de sessões de terapia visual. Todos os participantes, foram avaliados optometricamente, para se caracterizar a sua função visual. A amostra foi estratificada segundo a sua condição visual em sujeitos com visão binocular normal e com visão binocular alterada. Sujeitos com erro refrativo por compensar foram excluídos do estudo.
Os resultados mostraram que evidências de que a terapia visual dinamizada em grupo apresenta benefícios, tanto a nível da sintomatologia como nos dados optométricos. Encontraram-se diferenças estatisticamente significativas, no grupo experimental, tanto ao nível da sintomatologia como em determinados testes optométricos. Os sujeitos com visão binocular normal apresentaram melhorias na flexibilidade vergencial e nos testes acomodativos (amplitudes e flexibilidades acomodativas). Nos casos com visão binocular alterada, foram evidentes as melhorias em todos os testes optométricos, à exceção da amplitude de acomodação.
The vision sense is very important for the human life, because it is through it that most of the information around us is captured. In this way, it is important to check for visual problems as early as possible and, if applicable, they should be treated with care, in order to obtain maximum visual efficiency. Visual therapy is a non-surgical treatment consisting in a set of exercises that aims to re-educate and/or stimulate the visual system in order to increase and/or restore visual efficiency. This therapy can be used to correct various types of visual problems, since binocular, accommodative and oculomotor problems, learning dificulties, near visual stress and refractives problems., rather myopia. However, the use of this type of treatment is unfrequent. The aim of this study is to verify if group dinamic visual therapy presents good results, that is to explore if visual therapy performed in group leads to improvements in both the intensity of the symptoms and/or optometric data (namely, binocular tests and accommodative tests). A total of 47 subjects, aged between 12 and 40 years, of wich 28 belonges to the experimental group, who have done visual therapy, and remaining 19 belonged to the control group, wich didn’t benefit of the visual therapy sessions. All participants did a visual exam to characterize their visual function. The sample was stratified according to it’s visual condition in subjetcts with normal binocular vision and altered binocular vision. Subjects with uncorrected refractive errors were excluded from the study. The results showed evidence that group dinamic visual therapy has benefits, both symptomatology and optometric data. Statiscally significant diferences were found in the experimental group,both in symptomatology and certain optometric tests. Subjects with normal binocular vision presented improvements in vergencial facility and accommodative tests ( accommodative amplitudes and facilities). In cases with altered binocular vision, improvements in all optometric tests were evidenced, except for the accommodation amplitude.
The vision sense is very important for the human life, because it is through it that most of the information around us is captured. In this way, it is important to check for visual problems as early as possible and, if applicable, they should be treated with care, in order to obtain maximum visual efficiency. Visual therapy is a non-surgical treatment consisting in a set of exercises that aims to re-educate and/or stimulate the visual system in order to increase and/or restore visual efficiency. This therapy can be used to correct various types of visual problems, since binocular, accommodative and oculomotor problems, learning dificulties, near visual stress and refractives problems., rather myopia. However, the use of this type of treatment is unfrequent. The aim of this study is to verify if group dinamic visual therapy presents good results, that is to explore if visual therapy performed in group leads to improvements in both the intensity of the symptoms and/or optometric data (namely, binocular tests and accommodative tests). A total of 47 subjects, aged between 12 and 40 years, of wich 28 belonges to the experimental group, who have done visual therapy, and remaining 19 belonged to the control group, wich didn’t benefit of the visual therapy sessions. All participants did a visual exam to characterize their visual function. The sample was stratified according to it’s visual condition in subjetcts with normal binocular vision and altered binocular vision. Subjects with uncorrected refractive errors were excluded from the study. The results showed evidence that group dinamic visual therapy has benefits, both symptomatology and optometric data. Statiscally significant diferences were found in the experimental group,both in symptomatology and certain optometric tests. Subjects with normal binocular vision presented improvements in vergencial facility and accommodative tests ( accommodative amplitudes and facilities). In cases with altered binocular vision, improvements in all optometric tests were evidenced, except for the accommodation amplitude.
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Adolescentes Adultos Jovens Custo Terapia Visual Visão Binocular Alterada Visão Binocular Normal