or occupational therapy is also used to treat nystagmus. treatment consists of learning strategies to compensate for the impaired system. a cochrane review on interventions for eye movement disorders due to acquired brain injury, updated in june 2017, identified three studies of pharmacological interventions for acquired nystagmus but concluded that these studies provided insufficient evidence to guide treatment choices. epidemiology nystagmus is a relatively common clinical condition, affecting one in several thousand people. a survey conducted in oxfordshire, united kingdom found that by the age of two, one in every 670 children had manifested nystagmus. authors of another study in the united kingdom estimated an incidence of 24 in 10,000 (c. 0.240%), noting an apparently higher rate amongst white europeans than in individuals of asian origin. law enforcement