Comparison of yogic eye versus oculomotor exercises in non-specific chronic neck pain patients with visual complaints.

The conservative management given to the groups will be as follows and intervention duration for both the groups will be three weeks which consisted of nine treatment sessions, three days every week. Progression in the exercises will be given on weekly basis. Group A (Yogic Eye exercises group) includes of 8 steps: palming, blinking, sideways viewing, front and sideways viewing, rotational viewing, up and down viewing, preliminary nose-tip gazing, near and distant viewing etc. Each step will be performed for 5 minutes per cycle. After the eye exercises, the participants will practice the Shavasana (corpse pose) for 20 minutes to relax their eyes stretching of anterior scalene and sternocleidomastoid muscle (three repetitions each for 30 s hold), neck isometric exercises for flexion, extension, side flexion and rotation will be given for week 1: 5 s hold and 5 repetitions, week 2: 10 s hold and 5 repetitions, week 3: 10 s hold and 10 repetitions. Group B (Oculomotor Eye Exercise group) includes the conventional protocol along with oculomotor exercises which include saccadic eye movement, smooth pursuit exercise, Adaptation X1 exercise, and Adaptation X2 exercise. The time duration for each exercise will be week 1: 30 s, week 2: 1 min, week 3: 2 min.5