Table 1.
Patients’ characteristics and changes in visual acuity before and after the six-month acupuncture treatment.
| Case | Gender (M/F) | Age (year) | Treatment sessions | Spherical equivalent (OD/OS) |
Astigmatism (OD/OS) | Visual acuity (OD/OS) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | After six-month treatment | ||||||
| 1 | M | 5.11 | 46 | −6.5/−6.75 | −1.5/−1.75 | 0.2/0.2 | 0.4/0.3 |
| 2 | F | 6.4 | 53 | 6.75/4.25 | −0.5/−1.5 | 0.4/0.4 | 0.7/0.7a |
| 3 | F | 8.6 | 45 | −6.25/−8.5 | −1/−1.5 | 0.5/0.3 | 0.8/0.3 |
| 4 | F | 10.2 | 55 | −8.75/−7.75 | −/− | 0.4/0.5 | 0.6/0.9 |
| 5 | M | 10.9 | 36 | −6.75/−7.5 | −3/−2.25 | 0.4/0.5 | 0.7/0.8a |
| 6 | M | 11.5 | 44 | −6.25/−6.25 | −0.5/−1 | 0.4/0.5 | 0.7/0.8a |
| 7 | M | 12.1 | 37 | −6.25/−6.75 | −2.25/−1.75 | 0.4/0.4 | 0.7/0.7a |
| Total | 4/3 | 9.26 ± 2.66 | 45.14 ± 7.20 | 0.39 ± 0.09 / 0.40 ± 0.12 | 0.66 ± 0.13 / 0.64 ± 0.24 | ||
a
The case’s binocular visual acuity was above 20/30 after six-month of acupuncture treatment.