Device and methods for monitoring a visual field progression of a user

Method for determining the likelihood of a user being at or beyond a certain rate and/or risk of visual field progression (VFP), comprising the following steps:

• a measuring step (S101) comprising measuring ocular biomechanical properties (OBP) through a continuous-wear sensor placed on or implanted in the eye, with said measurement comprising repeated data capture at regular time intervals;
• a recording step (S102) comprising recording the user's ocular biomechanical properties in the form of at least one OBP time series plot in a recorder;
• a processing step (S103) wherein at least one of a plurality of OBP parameters are extracted from the recorded OBP time series plot;
• a calculation step (S104) wherein the at least one of a plurality of OBP parameters are associated to VFP, and
• a determining step (S105) wherein one determines whether the visual field progression is at or beyond a certain VFP threshold and/or the probability that the said visual field progression is comprised within a specific range;
• wherein the extracted OBP parameters are at least one taken from the group comprising amplitude, minimum, maximum, standard-deviation, number of peaks, slopes, fitted cosinor curve of a 24-hour OBP profile, number of large peaks, mean peak ratio, amplitude of the cosine curve, wake-to-sleep slope, variability from the mean and area under the curve, or a combination thereof.