Effect of moderate exercise on the ocular tension

Abstract

Fourteen adult subjects undertook walking and sitting for 50 minutes each on two consecutive mornings in randomized order. Walking and the net change produced by walking after an allowance had been made for the expected change attributable to sitting (as deterinined on a "control" day) both resulted in a significant fall in ocular tension. The change in ocular tension associated with sitting was, however, negligible. The higher the pressure was before walking, the greater was the fall afterwards (significant).