The effect of eye exercises with and without active movements on motor skills in children with amblyopia

Nowadays, one of the exercising methods which lead to improvement in performance and progress on motor skills is eye exercising. Hence, the present research aimed to analyze the effect of eye exercises with and without active movements on motor skills in children with amblyopia.

the current paper is a semi-experimental research with a pretest-posttest pattern. A group of 40 children aged 5-8 years with amblyopia were randomly assigned into three groups: eye exercises without active movements, eye exercises with active movements (ocular, ocular and manual, and displacement), and control. The groups were trained in 12 sessions of 30 minutes and the subjects of control group were engaged in their daily activities. The subjects participated in Lincoln Oseretsky's test before and after exercises.

One-way ANOVA and post-test post-hoc Tukey test showed that there was a significant  statistical difference between the experimental groups and the control group in the motor skills of children with amblyopia (P<0.05), yet there was no significant statistical difference between experimental groups (P>0.05).

In general, the results of this study showed that eye exercises with and without active movements can improve motor skills in children with amblyopia.