Orthoptic and ophtalmologic assistance

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Academic discipline: Malattie apparato visivo (MED/30)
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Type of training activity: More

50 hours
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2 credits

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Integrated course unit module: EYE MOTILITY AND STRABISMUS

Learning objectives

to acquire the fundamental elements of the pathophysiology of sensory and motor alterations and on the treatment of forms of strabismus including the paralytic forms

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Course unit content

General details on oculomotor imbalance

Full programme

General details on oculomotor imbalance.
Heterophoria: pathophysiology. Esophorias and exophorias.
Intermittent deviations and heterophoria dysfunction.
Heterotropias: pathophysiology. General details on the main types of heterotropia: esotropias, exotropias, vertical strabismus and alphabet syndromes.
Nystagmus (physiological nystagmus, pathological nystagmus).
Paralytic strabismus.Ocular motility test: test to establish the existence of an ocular deviation: the cover test, corneal reflexes, strabismus and pseudo strabismus (epicanthus, kappa angle, facial assymetry).

The incomitance of a deviation and its determination: objective methods (cover test, Hess screen, Bielschowsky test) and subjective methods (diplopia test).

Ocular torticollis.

Binocular vision test: in ambient conditions, with haploscope. Methods for determining suppression, CR, stereopsis

Bibliography

Burian - von Noorden: binocular visione and ocular motility

Teaching methods

practical lessons

Assessment methods and criteria

practical exam

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