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Practical Binocular Vision Assessment

A Practical Guide

  • 1st Edition - December 11, 2003
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Frank Eperjesi, Michelle M. Rundstrom
  • Language: English

Brimming with sound practical advice and helpful clinical pearls, this book combines a practical work book on binocular vision anomalies with a CD-Rom illustrating various eye… Read more

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Description

Brimming with sound practical advice and helpful clinical pearls, this book combines a practical work book on binocular vision anomalies with a CD-Rom illustrating various eye movement disorders. With suggested routines and protocols and a straightforward, 'how-to-do-it' approach, it will appeal to students and practitioners alike. It is an essential purchase for all optometrists, dispensing opticians and trainee orthoptists and junior ophthalmologist.

Key features

  • Offers practical advice in a "how to" style.
  • Provides rapid access to information in a step-by-step format.
  • Makes learning easier with helpful summaries and Objectives outlined at the beginning of each chapter.
  • Presents all tests together on side-by-side page spreads, with easy-to-follow routines and protocols.
  • Includes a companion CD-ROM with video clips of eye movements to further illustrate the conditions discussed in the text.

Readership

Optometrists and dispensing opticians in training and in practice; orthoptists

Table of contents

Foreword
Chapter 1
History and symptom taking for an adult
History and symptom taking for a child

Chapter 2
Visual acuity testing for distance and near
Description of use of the following charts: Cardiff acuity cards, Keeler cards (with matching), Snellen (with matching), Sheridan Gardner, Cambridge acuity cards, Sonkson-Silver, LH symbols.

Chapter 3
Cover testing

Chapter 4
Oculo-motility testing

Chapter 6
Stereoacuity testing
Types of test: TNO, Titmus (Randot), Frisby, Lang I and Lang II)
Importance of stereoacuity testing

Review quotes

It is an excellent handbook for any student or novice optometric practitioner, or eye care practitioners for whom binocular vision assessment is something of a mysterious art.
Clinical and Experimental Optometry, November 2004

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 11, 2003
  • Language: English

About the authors

FE

Frank Eperjesi

Affiliations and expertise
Director of Optometry Programme, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

MR

Michelle M. Rundstrom

Affiliations and expertise
Visiting Clinical Demonstrator, Primary Care Optometrist, Orthoptist, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

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