The Effects of Regular Eye-training With a Mobile Device on Adult Patients With AMD (ETAMD)

University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

Status: Unknown

Conditions: AMD

Treatments: Device: Medical-Eye-Trainer (MET)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03461393

Uasua

Details and patient eligibility

About

Data collection and observation of changes within AMD patients performing visual training on mobile devices

Full description

In the presented study a training-therapy in patients with dry AMD war evaluated. The main focus was on remote visibility and thus better handling of daily activities.

Therapy with high-contrast administration is used for amblyopia in childhood. Furthermore, simulation therapy is used in hemianopsia in the adult age, in which case the lesion is usually not located in the eye.

This stimulating therapy for children and adult patients led to the hypothesis that this treatment could also improve AMD's situation. The entire visual procedure also shows the possibility of change even in adult patients.

The presented study investigates if regular training with a device that provides a moving grating-stimulus, the "Medical Eye Trainer" (MET), can improve the subjective perception of visual performance during typical activities of daily living. The aims of the study were not to show improvement of reading vision nor to show changes in the retinal structure.

Enrollment: 11 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 105 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All eyes had been affected by dry AMD for 3.5 years or more

Exclusion criteria

None

Trial design

11 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention Group

Description:

Repetitive Training with Medical-Eye-Trainer (MET)

Treatment:

Device: Medical-Eye-Trainer (MET)