Words: Flashcards
(39 cards)
Visual Acuity
- Sharpness
- visual detail
Myopia
- Near sighted
- image focused in front of retina
Hyperopia
- far sightedness
- image focused on back of retina
Astigmatism
-cornea not a perfect shape
Snellen fraction far acuity #-
20 ft
Snellen fraction near acuity #
16 feet
Oculomotor function
Maintain foveation on a object
Fixation
Locate and maintain gaze of an object
Smooth pursuits
Ability to follow a image smoothly
Saccadic function
Ability to direct and coordinate movement quickly
Accommodation
Ability to change focus of eye
Specific cranial nerve lesions-
unable to maintain central position
Medial rectus is CN
III
Superior oblique is CN -
CN IV
Lateral rectus is CN
VI
Cranial nerve VI palsy:
- damage to lateral rectus
- unable to move eyes laterally
- Horizontal diplopia for far vision– think #6 soccer going far
CN IV palsy
- damage to superior oblique
- Unable to move eye up and down
- Vertical dipolia for near vision
Ptosis can be due to
Cranial nerve III palsy
Cranial nerve III palsy
- Unable to move eye up, medial, or down
- ptosis
- Diplopia for near vision
Testing pursuits
- test without glasses
- H, X, O
- test each eye separately then together
Testing saccades:
- with out without glasses
- hold two different targets
- direct client to look at which command
- preformed in three fields- superior, inferior, or middle
Which saccades is slightly weaker:
Superior
Binocular complaints
-double vision
Stereopsis
ability to perceive 3 dimensional depth