ArticleRisk management and healthcare policy2020
The Effect of Eye Exercises of Acupoints on Myopia Progression: A 3-Year Cohort Report from the Beijing Myopia Progression Study.
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- The association between Chinese eye exercises and myopia in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of Chinese Acupoint Eye Exercise on Ocular Biological Parameters.Translational vision science & technology · 2025Trial
- Interventional Study on the Effectiveness of Eye Exercises Based on Composite Feedback Model in School-Age Children.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2024Trial
- Prevalence and associated factors of screening-defined myopia among schoolchildren in Urumqi: a comparison of two cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2012 and 2019.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- [Mediating effect of sleep duration between depression symptoms and myopia in middle school students].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2025Article
- Regional disparities in the prevalence and correlated factors of myopia in children and adolescents in Gansu, China.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
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- Prevalence and associated factors of myopia among school students in Shenyang, China: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate the impact of eye exercises of acupoints on myopic progression among Chinese urban students.
methodsThe Beijing Myopia Progression Study (BMPS) was a three-year cohort study, with 386 students (aged 6-17 years) enrolled at baseline. These students were invited to be reexamined in the years 2011, 2012, and 2013. The student's cycloplegic refraction at each visit and the parental non-cycloplegic refraction at baseline were performed. Students were also required to complete the eye exercise of acupoints questionnaire and the convergence insufficiency symptom survey (CISS).
resultsAt the final follow-up, 226 students (57.2%) with complete refraction and eye exercises questionnaire data were enrolled in the present study. In the multivariate analysis, only students who performed the eye exercises twice or more per day had less myopic refractive change (β=0.32, p=0.04), as compared to those who performed the eye exercises less than twice per day. No significant association was found between the CISS score and the refractive change for items in the eye exercises questionnaire.
conclusionIn this study cohort, the Chinese eye exercises of acupoints had a modest effect on reducing myopic progression among Chinese urban students aged 6 to 17 years. The precise mechanism remains unclear, especially in the absence of a control group.
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