title: [Prevention of myopia in children].
abstract: Eye diseases rank third in the structure of morbidity among children aged 0 to 17 years. Acquired myopathy is the leading abnormality in the structure of morbidity, with diminished vision being in 28% of preschool children and in every two school graduates. Myopia is attended by the signs of systemic connective tissue dysplasia and impaired circulation due to autonomic dysfunction. Early diagnosis and correction of autonomic dysfunction is the basic line of the prevention and treatment of school myopia. Treatment of children can be organized in the medical room of a school. Along with general health-improving measures, physiotherapetic procedures, such as lens exercises, curative gymnastics, massage, and gentle manual therapy procedures should be used in the multimodality treatment of children with myopia. Autonomic tone can be regulated through the visual analyzer by pulse photostimulation on a spectral ophthalmologic apparatus (an up-to-date ACO-05 software model ("DEST", Cheboksary). Moreover, circulation improves, eye muscles become stronger, visual reflexes restore, and vision improves. A school oculist's room may be used as a new health-improving form in children with myopia. It should be set up in every school since the high efficiency of treatment for accommodation spasm is an important argument of the prevention of myopia, promotes a greater coverage of children with early myopia by means of therapeutic measures, as well as timely and contemporary prevention of progressive myopathy.
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Volkova
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009216:Myopia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015995:Prevalence; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015351:Vision Screening / Q000379:methods*