Inverse Occlusion: A Binocularly Motivated Treatment for Amblyopia

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Experimental design. Eighteen amblyopes with () or without () strabismus participated in our experiment. Patients’ binocular balance (balance point in the binocular phase combination task), visual acuity, and stereoacuity were measured before and after two months of occlusion of the amblyopic eye for 2 hours/day (i.e., the inverse occlusion). For patients who required refractive correction or whose refractive correction needed updating (), a 2-month period of refractive adaptation was provided prior to the inverse occlusion study.