Orthoptic Assessment and Management

by Stidwill, David

• ISBN13: 9780632050123
• ISBN10: 0632050128
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This revision and reference text for pre-registration and postgraduate optometrists covers procedures for investigating heterophoria, heterotropia, vergence and accommodative anomalies, and the diagnosis of disorders of voluntary eye movement, nystagmus and supranuclear defects, paresis and non-paralytic incomitancy. Both motor and sensory anomalies are discussed together with syndromes involving oculomotor anomalies. Clinical management is outlined in protocols in an easily assimilable form. The new edition includes two new chapters on vision training and case management which will interest optometrists and orthoptists involved in sports vision, developmental vision therapy and the care of ophthalmic patients with neurological lesions. Pre-registration optometrists will find the chapters on routine orthoptic assessment and the professional qualifying examination of particular interest.

Author Biography

David Stidwill, FCOptom, DCLP, is Optometrist, Visiting Clinician, Aston University; and Member of Assessment Board, The College of Optometrists.

Table of Contents

Normal and abnormal binocular vision

Background: orthoptic terminology, surgical principles, the development of orthoptic techniques

Ocular deviations: motor anomalies

Ocular adaptations: sensory anomalies

Clinical investigation of binocular anomalies

Heterophoria and anomalies of vergence and accommodation

Exercises for vergence, version and fixation

Heterotropia

Incomitancy

Nystagmus, irregular eye movements, internuclear and supranuclear binocular anomalies

Professional qualifying examination technique

Case studies

References and background reading

Appendices

Index

Differential diagnosis of strabismus and amblyopia

History of orthoptic

Oculomotor deviations

Oculosensory anomalies

Routine orthoptic procedures

Heterophoria assessment and management protocols

Vision training exercises

Concomitant heterotropia classification, diagnosis and treatment

Acute strabismus, supranuclear eye movement disorders, nystagmus, strabismus syndromes

Professional examination technique and questions

Case management examples

Glossary

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