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Binocular vision and heterotropia / strabismus / squint

Dingle_berry · 2016-08-24 19:12:24

One for the professionals: "Normal binocular function is defined as any individual with a degree of binocular lock. This would include individuals with normal binocular single vision and those individuals with well-adapted heterotropias, who are not at risk of diplopia and have adopted a suppression scotoma when both eyes…

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24-08-2016 8:12pm

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Dingle_berry

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One for the professionals:

"Normal binocular function is defined as any individual with a degree of binocular lock. This would include individuals with normal binocular single vision and those individuals with well-adapted heterotropias, who are not at risk of diplopia and have adopted a suppression scotoma when both eyes are open."

What is meant by 'a degree of binocular lock' in the above statement? and how can this be demonstrated to an optician / orthoptist / ophthalmologist by a person with a heterotropism?

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3d view

strabismus

binocular lock

binocular vision

heterotropia

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