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Università degli Studi di Parma Università degli Studi di Parma
Degree course in
Orthoptic and ophtalmologic assistance
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Medicine and Surgery

REHABILITATION FROM HANDICAP
cod. 1009245

Academic year 2022/23
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
- Elio SPAGGIARI
Academic discipline
Scienze tecniche mediche applicate (MED/50)
Field
Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
7 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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course unit
in ITALIAN
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Learning objectives

The student will have to know the principles of low vision management.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

- Treatment of functional amblyopia;
- occlusive therapy: total, partial or maintenance with filters;
- penalized therapy: pharmacological or optical;
- treatment of the insufficiency of the convergence: fusive vergences with prisms, physiological diplopia, fusive amplitude at the greater amblioscope;
- accommodative converging strabismus therapy with high AC / A ratio;
- accommodative relaxation exercises with red filter, physiological diplopia and reading with bar, divergent fusive vergences, divergent fusive width at the synophophorus with the arms placed at the patient's deviation angle;
- treatment of nystagmus: external based prisms if the block is in convergence, homologous based prisms in the presence of a stiff neck with stop of the nystagmus;
- prismatic treatment both in paralytic strabismus and in decompensated convergent strabismus with single binocular vision.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Gunter K. Von Noorten: 'Visione binoculare e motilità oculare', Ed.Medical Books
M. Maione, G. Maraini: 'L'unità visiva sensorio-motoria", Ed. Libreria Goliardica (PR)

Teaching methods

Oral and practical lessons. The student will attend the Orthoptical Center of the Ophthalmology Unit.C of the University Hospital of Parma where, through activities with tutors, clinical cases will be addressed and discussed. Due to the pandemic, lessons could also take place remotely (in synchronous/asynchronous mode) using Microsoft Teams.

Assessment methods and criteria

Examination modalities of the integrated course

Other information

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