Orthoptic Assessment And Management 2nd Ed.

Description:
A revision and reference text for pre-registration and postgraduate optometrists, covering procedures for investigating heterophoria, heterotropia, vergence and accommodative anomalies. The text covers 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 second edition has additional information for final year undergraduates. Amblyopia treatment has been extended to cover new American optometric methods. Strabismus surgical techniques are now included. There are two new chapters on vision training and case management which will interest optometrists and orthoptists involved in sports vision and in developmental vision therapy. Pre-registration optometrists will find the chapters on routine orthoptic assessment and the PQE examination of particular interest.

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