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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 2022 Oct 22;43(1):105–115. doi: 10.1111/opo.13062

Table 4:

Treatment Kinetics – Change in Near Point of Convergence (NPC) and Positive Fusional Vergence (PFV) per week for first four weeks and for the subsequent 12 weeks of vergence-accommodative therapy.

Time period Baseline NPC of 8.3 cm Baseline NPC of 13.8 cm Baseline NPC of 17.2 cm§
Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI
Near point of convergence, break (cm)
Baseline to Week 4 0.7 0.5 to 0.9 1.9 1.7 to 2.1 2.6 2.5 to 2.8
Week 4 to Week 16 0.2 0.1 to 0.2 0.2 0.1 to 0.2 0.2 0.1 to 0.3
Time period Baseline PFV of 8.7 Δ Baseline PFV of 11.6 Δ Baseline PFV of 14 Δ§
Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI
Positive fusional vergence, blur or break if no blur (Δ)
Baseline to Week 4 3.5 3.0 to 4.0 3.2 2.8 to 3.6 2.9 2.5 to 3.3
Week 4 to Week 16 1.0 0.8 to 1.1 0.8 0.7 to 1.0 0.7 0.6 to 0.9

25th percentile of baseline distribution

Mean of baseline distribution

§

75th percentile of baseline distribution

Δ = prism dioptres, cm = centimetres