Table 2.
Hospital based and home-based orthoptic therapy procedure
| Phase | Therapy location | Training technique | Endpoint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 | Hospital-based therapy | Training with major amblyoscope to build fine retina correspondence | Achieve simultaneous vision and build fusion |
| Cheiroscopic drawing with single oblique stereoscope | Achieve simultaneous vision and build fusion | ||
| Vectograms (quoits or clowns) for convergence | 33 BO for twice for patients without stereopsis | ||
| Increasing fusional convergence based on stereoscopic stimuli | 34 BO for twice for patient with stereopsis | ||
| Home therapy | Red/green bar reader | Maintain single binocular without suppression | |
| Barrel card | Easily fuse three dots | ||
| Brock string | Successfully converge to 2.5 cm from his or her nose. | ||
| Letter chart monocular accommodative facility (MAF) | Start from 20/50, go to 20/40 or 20/30, when result of MAF is 17.5 cpm | ||
| Phase 2 | Hospital-based vision therapy | Training with major amblyoscope to increase fusional convergence | Fusional convergence reserve is more than +25° (based on different subjective angle of exodeviation, the amount of fusional convergence demand is different) |
| Vectograms (quoits or clowns) for divergence | 15 BI with stereopsis | ||
| Aperture rule for convergence and divergence | 12 pictures for convergence, 7 pictures for divergence. | ||
| Random vergence facility based on stereoscopic stimuli | More than 650 times in 15 minutes | ||
| Home-based vision therapy | Aperture rule | 7 for divergence and 12 for convergence | |
| Letter chart BAF | More than 17.5 cpm (20/30) | ||
| Computerized binocular vision therapy procedure | Achieve clear single binocular vision with 40 to 50 BO and 10 to 15 BI. | ||
| Phase 3 | Hospital-based vision therapy | Training with major amblyoscope to increase fusional convergence | Fusional convergence reserve is more than +25° (based on different subjective angle of strabismus, amount of fusional convergence demand is different) |
| Aperture rule with lens or prism flipper | Accomplish with ±2.00 lens flipper | ||
| Random vergence facility based on stereoscopic stimuli | More than 650 times in 15 minutes | ||
| Bernell-O-Scope for vergence facility | 8 pictures for BI and BO each | ||
| Free space fusion with lifesaver card | Easily accomplish convergence and divergence | ||
| VR training that combines pursuit and saccade | Accuracy ratio more than 90% in increasing difficulty | ||
| Home-based vision therapy | Aperture rule with ±2.00 lens flipper | Accomplish 7 in divergence and 12 in convergence | |
| Lifesaver card | Easily accomplish divergence and convergence |
BO base out, BI base in, BAF binocular accommodative facility, cpm cycles per minute, VR virtual reality