OBJECTIVE INVESTIGATION OF RELATIVE ACCOMMODATION RESERVES AND STABILITY

Prognostic and pathogenic role of accommodation disturbances in myopia progressing at the present moment gives no rise to doubts. Disturbances of accommodation are diagnostic feature of myopia progressing. In recent years methods of accommodation objective study take on special significance. We examined 18 children (36 eyes) at the age from 7 to 11 years with the acquired mild myopia. The patients underwent examination of the relative accommodation reserves and stability with help of binocular refkeratometer of the "open field" Grand Seiko WR-5100K according to the method developed by the authors. The objective investigations of accommodation detected its various disturbances in all the examined children: decrease of the static accommodative response, reserves and stability of accommodation. The indices of subjectively determined reserves of relative accommodation in the majority of cases proved to be overstated in comparison with the objective due to the reading under the condition of monocular or decreased binocular accommodative response.

stability of the relative accommodation, reserve of the relative accommodation, "gap" of the accommodative response and decrease of stable accommodation