Binocular Vision, Orthoptics

The course 17PBOBZO can be graded only after the course 17PBOSUR2 has been successfully completed.

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Department of Natural Sciences

Synopsis:

Binocular vision conditions. Strabismus - extraocular muscles. Heterophoria, heterotrophia. Developments of binocular movement, binocular vision. Anomalous retinal correspondence, eccentric fixation. Determination of angle of deviation. Goals of treatment. Principles of therapy of strabismus - use of prisms, decentration of glasses. Pleoptics, orthoptics.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1. Normal binocular vision

2. Motor condition of binocular vision

3. Sensory conditions of binocular vision

4. Examination of binocular vision

5. Examination of divergence and determination of strabismus type

6. Precise determination of strabismus type and plan of treatment

7. Pleoptics

8. Conservative techniques in therapy of strabismus

9. Chirurgical treatment

10. Extraocular muscles

11. Classification of strabismus

12. Summary

Syllabus of tutorials:

Subject matter of excersises follows lectures.

Study Objective:

Theoretical knowledge of binocular vision in practical use.

Instructions about making corrective aids for eye exercises for heterophoria.

Study materials:

1.SCHEIMAN, Mitchell a Bruce WICK. Clinical management of binocular vision: heterophoric, accommodative, and eye movement disorders. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2014.

2.EVANS, Bruce J. W. Pickwell's binocular vision anomalies. 5th ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.

3.ALAIS, David, ed. a Randolph BLAKE, ed. Binocular rivalry. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.

4.HOWARD, Ian P. a Brian J. ROGERS. Binocular vision and stereopsis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

5.G.K. von Noorden: Binocular Vision and Ocular Motility. Mosby-Year Book, St. Louis 1996.

6.K. Zadnik: The Ocular Examination. W.B.Saunders Compl, Philadelphia 1997.

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Further information:

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