What is Strabismus?

What is Amblyopia?

This testing carefully evaluates both the eye-turn characteristics (motor aspects) and the brain’s ability to process or integrate the information received from both eyes (sensory aspects).

Motor aspects evaluated include:

• Direction of the eyeturn (esotropia, exotropia, hypertropia)
• Size of the eyeturn
• Frequency of the eyeturn (constant or intermittent)

Sensory aspects evaluated include:

• Amblyopia – determines the type and severity of vision loss
• Cortical correspondence - determines whether the patient has the sensory potential to use the two eyes together to achieve normal binocular (two-eyed) vision
• Potential of the patient to integrate the images from both eyes into a single "fused" image
• Stereopsis – determines if the patient can achieve a high level of two-eyed depth perception

Based on the characteristics of the strabismus and/or amblyopia, the prognosis for achieving normal visual acuity and normal binocular vision will be reviewed. A discussion of the possible treatment options and sequence of those options will take place. Treatment options may include the use of lenses, prism, occlusion (patch type or drops), active vision therapy procedures or referral for surgery.