Diagnosis And Treatment Of False Convergence Insufficiency.

Convergence insufficiency is a problem commonly seen in optometric practice. It is a syndrome that consists of greater exophoria at far than at near, a decreased near point of convergence, reduced positive relative convergence at near, and reduced negative
relative accomodation. It is one of the easiest binocular visual anamolies to treat with visual therapy. Therapy procedures commanly used to build base-out fusion at near include base in/base out flippers, Quoit vectographs and push-up training with physiological diplopia awareness. Occasionally a binocular condition is seen which resembles a convergence insufficiency in many ways, but shows several different key aspects. This condition will be called a false convergence insufficiency in this paper. In false convergence insufficiency,
an accommodative dysfunction is clearly present. In this paper I will present the differences between a true and false convergence insufficiency, and discuss etiology and treatment of the false convergence insufficiency.