Slide deck for online lecture given at the 2024 edition of the Philippine General Hospital Post-graduate Course: Basic Course in Ophthalmology
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Basic Motility Examination
Alvina Pauline D. Santiago, MD
Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus
Basic Course Lectures in Ophthalmology
Sentro Oftalmologico Jose Rizal
Philippine General Hospital
2024
Basic Strabismus Evaluation
•Chief complaint and History
•Vision assessment (with vision screening)
•Gross evaluation and slit lamp examination
•Refraction and need for cycloplegia
•Sensory & Motor examination
(Motility Examination)
•Dilated posterior pole evaluation
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Sensory Tests
Motor Tests
•Near Stereoacuity
•Distance Stereoacuity
•Worth 4 Dot
Ocular rotations
Measuring the deviation
Anomalous head postures
Tests of muscle function
Light reflex tests
Other Tests
Outline
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Sensory Testing
Near Stereoacuity
Distance Stereoacuity
Worth 4 Dot
Outcomes
•Enumerate requirements before performing sensory tests
•Perform correct near stereoacuity test
•Enumerate the different stereoacuity tests for distance and near
•Discuss the basis of stereoacuity tests
•Discuss the importance of sensory testing for strabismus
•Enumerate the indications for sensory testing
•Perform and interpret results of Worth 4-dot testing
•Discuss the 4PD Base out test
•Identify the amblyoscope and discuss its functions
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Sensory Testing
•Perform before any type of monocular occlusion
•e.g., visual acuity testing, cover tests
•Must wear correct prescription
•May need to correct deviation
•Prefer to do on a second visit
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Stereoacuity tests
•Horizontal disparity
•Stimulate non-corresponding points
•Image disparity measured in seconds of arc
•40-50 sec of arc = central or bifoveal fixation
•80-3000 sec of arc = peripheral fusion
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Titmus fly test
•Monocular cues
•Need polarized glasses
•Image displacement
may be detected by
alternate suppressors
•Turn book 90 degrees,
should be flat
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management
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Lang Stereoacuity test
•Random dot stereogram
•No need for Polaroid
lenses
•Only for gross and low-
grade stereopsis
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management
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Random Dot Stereogram
•2 plates of randomly
displayed dots, one plate
to each eye
•Shape of figure
displaced horizontally
relative to other plate
•No monocular cues
•Normal may fail
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management
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Distance Stereotest
•Mentor BVAT
System
•Very good test
for assessing
control in X(T)
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
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Sensory Testing
•Worth 4 dot
•near: tests peripheral fusion
•distance: tests central fusion
•Retinal correspondence
•amblyoscope, Bagolini lenses
•4 PD BO test: foveal suppression
•Normal response
•conjugate saccades OU,
•slow recovery in eye without the prism
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Worth Dot Test
•2 green lights
•1 red light
•1 white light
•Red-green glasses
•Usually red over right eye
•At 1/3 m:
•W4D separated by 6 degrees
•Tests peripheral fusion
•At 6 m:
•1.25 degrees
•Tests central fusion
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Worth Dot Test Results
http://image.slidesharecdn.com
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Amblyoscope or Haploscope
•Measures fusional
vergence amplitudes
•Angle of deviation
•Area of suppression
•Retinal correspondence
•Torsion
•Instrument convergence
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From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
Motor Testing
Ocular rotations
The Ideal Target
Anomalous head posture
Tests of Muscle Function
Light reflex tests
Cover Tests
Other Tests
Outcomes
•State laws of strabismus and apply to clinical
situations
•Evaluate ocular rotations
•Suggest clinical entities with limited ocular rotations
•Perform correct technique of measuring the
deviation
•Enumerate characteristics of ideal target when
measuring strabismus deviation
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Outcomes
•Enumerate factors affecting measurement
•Perform techniques that can ”find” hidden strabismus
•Perform tests of muscle functions and know their
indications and interpretations
•Perform the different light reflex tests, know their
indications and interpretations
•Perform the different cover tests and know their
indications
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Ocular Rotations
•State laws of strabismus and apply to clinical
situations
•Evaluate ocular rotations
•Suggest clinical entities with limited ocular rotations
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Ocular Rotations
•Duction: monocular
•Version: binocular
•Alert to pattern deviations: e.g., A, V
•Grading scheme:
•e.g., inferior oblique & superior oblique
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Agonist Muscle and its Antagonist
•AGONIST: muscle
that cause specific eye
movement
•MR: adduction
•LR: abduction
•SR: supraduction
•IR: infraduction
•SO: intorsion
•IO: excyclotorsion
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Agonist Muscle and its Antagonist
•AGONIST: muscle
that cause specific eye
movement
•MR: adduction
•LR: abduction
•SR: supraduction
•IR: infraduction
•SO: intorsion
•IO: excyclotorsion
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•ANTAGONIST
muscle: creates
movement opposite
that of the agonist.
•MR-LR
•SR-IR
•SO-IO
Yoke Muscles & Synergists
•YOKE muscles:
muscles that cause 2
eyes to move in same
direction
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RMR
LLR
RSR
LIO
RLR
LMR
RIR
LSO
RIO
LSR
RSO
LIR
Yoke Muscles & Synergists
•YOKE muscles:
muscles that cause 2
eyes to move in same
direction
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RMR
LLR
RSR
LIO
RLR
LMR
RIR
LSO
RIO
LSR
RSO
LIR
•SYNERGISTS: muscles
moving 1 eye in the same
direction
•Adduction: MR, IR, SR
•Abduction: LR, SO, IO
•Intorsion: SO, SR
•Extorsion: IO, IR
Measuring the Deviation &
The Ideal Target
•Perform correct technique of measuring the
deviation
•Enumerate characteristics of ideal target when
measuring strabismus deviation
•Enumerate factors affecting measurement
•Perform techniques that can ”find” hidden
strabismus
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Motor Testing
•Primary gaze
•Right and left gaze
•Up and down gaze
•Right and left head tilt
•Oblique gazes, occasionally
•Near: primary and down gaze
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Cover Tests
•Requirements:
•Appropriate correction
•Know if correction with or without prisms
•Accommodative target (above threshold)
•Distance:
•6 m: 1/6 D of accommodation
• approximates infinity
•> 6 m: X(T)
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The Ideal Target
•“Accommodative target” but Above threshold
•e.g. Snellen acuity 20/20
•present 20/50 to 20/70
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The Ideal Target
•With sufficient detail and contour
•Should sustain interest
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The Ideal Target
•Maximum plus, least minus correction
•Allows minimal accommodation at 6 m
•Accommodation exerted only 1/6 Diopter,
considered zero for strabismus measurement
purposes
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Factors Affecting Measurement
•Method of testing:
•Light reflex:
•Brückner
•Hirschberg
•Krimsky/modified
Krimsky
•Different cover tests
•Cover Test
•Alternate Cover Test
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
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Factors Affecting Measurement
•Patient factors:
•Accommodation and AC/A ratio
•Axial length and globe size
•Amblyopia and eccentric fixation
•Refractive error and induced prisms
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Techniques in Finding Strabismus
•Brückner test
•Spielmann translucent
occluder
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management
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Anomalous Head Posture
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Santiago AP, Rosenbaum AL. Dissociated vertical deviations and head tilts. J AAPOS 1998; 2: 5-11.
Anomalous Head Posture
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From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management
Tests of Muscle Function
•Perform tests of muscle functions and know their
indications and interpretations
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Tests of Muscle Function
•Forced duction test
•Force generation test
•Saccadic velocity analysis
•Electromyography
•Dynamic MRI
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Indications
•Incomitant deviation
•Limited ocular rotation
•Distinguish between restriction and paresis/palsy
•Distinguish between paresis and palsy
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Advantages
•Help in deciding between treatment options
•Monitor improvement of paretic muscles
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Tests of Muscle Function
•Paresis vs. restriction
•Forced duction test
•Force generation test
•Saccadic velocity analysis
•Differential intraocular pressure
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EMG: Electromyography
•Limitations:
•may record activity even if muscle still
paretic
•response suppressed by GA
•still used in some cases of Duane syndrome
and Botulinum injection
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Passive Forced Duction
•Children > 7 yrs, adults
•Topical anesthetic
•Cover one eye: ensures fixation
•Look as far as possible in the direction of limited ocular rotation
•Provide fixation target
•Watch out for “falling off” of eye
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From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
Passive Forced Duction
“Can the forceps rotate the eye further
than the patient can using maximal
innervation in that gaze field?”
•Grasp limbus opposite the side of limited gaze
•Tenon’s and conjunctiva fused in one layer
•limits stretching/tearing of conjunctiva
•provides firm grasp
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Intraoperative Forced Duction Testing
•Perform routinely to feel “normal”
•Perform esp after resections
•may be ortho in primary
•overcorrection in certain gazes
•Perform after transpositions
•Intraoperative adjustable suture
•Perform after removing suspected restrictions
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Pitfalls: Forced Duction
•Patient apprehension
•Errors in technique
•“Falling off”
•Failure to proptose for rectus or retropulse globe for obliques
•Succinylcholine (Anectine)
•Posterior restrictions
•Co-contractions
•Co-existing paresis and restriction
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Active Force Generation
•Apply a counteracting force
•Using the same grasp on
limbus
•Counter-traction to feel
resistance
•WOF: corneal abrasion,
conjunctival hemorrhage
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From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
Active Force Generation
•Differential IOP
•Paresis vs. palsy
•Combined paresis and restriction
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Saccadic Velocity Analysis
•Study eye movement velocity
•muscle activity
•return of muscle function
•EOG : problem when testing vertical saccades
•Infrared
•Scleral search coil
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Office Saccadic Velocity
•Look at 2 separate targets
•At least 20 deg movement
sufficient
•Compare
•briskness of agonist and
antagonist
•with fellow eye
•Bring the eye where muscle has
•maximum function
•full unrestricted motion
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical
Strabismus Management 1999
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Pitfalls: Saccadic Velocity
•Errors in technique
•failure to bring eye
where muscle is still
functioning
•Pharmacologic
•Fatigue
•Time of day
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
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Hirschberg’s Corneal Light Reflex
•3.5 mm pupil:
•15 deg at pupil edge
•30 deg between limbus and
edge of pupil
•45 degrees at limbus
•Not a true linear
relationship:
21 pd/mm decentration
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
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Krimsky vs Modified Krimsky
•in front of deviating
eye (modified
Krimsky)
•underestimates true
angle
•better at near
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
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LIGHT REFLEX, COVER TESTS
(Courtesy of R. Pena, MD)
MODIFIED KRIMSKY
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Cover Tests
Cover Uncover Test
Alternate Prism Cover Test
Simultaneous Prism Cover Test
Prism Under Cover Test
•Perform the different cover tests and
know their indications
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Cover Uncover Test
•Must be performed
before alternate
cover test
•Cover test: tropia
•Uncover test:
phoria
•Also for fixation
preference
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5HbIZi4u70
Alternate Prism Cover Test
•Prisms before deviated eye
•primary vs. secondary deviation
•Unless strabismic eye is preferred for fixation
•Evaluates total deviation: manifest (tropic) and
latent (phoric)
•End point: No movement of eyes
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ALTERNATE PRISM & COVER TEST
Gold standard for
measuring deviation
LIGHT REFLEX, COVER TESTS
(Courtesy of R. Pena, MD)
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Simultaneous Prism Cover Test
•Tropia under binocular conditions
•Monofixation syndrome
•Estimate angle of deviation
•Present prism and cover simultaneously
•Absence of movement in tropic eye means
correcting prisms are accurate
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SIMULTANEOUS PRISM & COVER TEST
Used for monofixation
LIGHT REFLEX, COVER TESTS
(Courtesy of R. Pena, MD)
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Prism Under Cover Test
•For Dissociated Vertical Deviation
•Evaluate one eye at a time
•Prism and cover presented to the same eye
•Separate true hypertropia by using BU prism
neutralization in the other eye
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PRISM UNDER COVER TEST
Used for DISSOCIATED
VERTICAL DEVIATION (DVD)
LIGHT REFLEX, COVER TESTS
(Courtesy of R. Pena, MD)
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Dissociated Vertical Deviation
Courtesy of N. Paderna, MD
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DVD OD
DHD OS
Cover Tests
Cover TestIndication
Cover Uncover TestPhoria
Alternate Prism Cover
Test
Total Deviation
Prism Under Cover TestDissociated Vertical
Deviation
Simultaneous Prism
Cover Test
Monofixation Syndrome
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Other Tests
Red Glass Test
Parks 3-step Test
Evaluation of Torsion
MRI for Imaging
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Outcomes
•Know how to perform the red glass test and interpret
results
•Know the indication for the Parks 3-step test
•Perform the Parks 3-step test and interpret the results
•Enumerate the different tests for torsion and know
how to perform them
•Enumerate the indications for MRI for strabismus
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Red Glass Test
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https://entokey.com/diplopia-2/
Red Glass Test
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RL
-drawn as patient sees it
-uncrossed diplopia: Esotropia
RL
Red Glass Test
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-drawn as patient sees it
-crossed diplopia: Exotropia
L RLR
Red Glass Test
Right hypertropia
•red image below
white image
•Drawn as patient
sees it
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Parks 3-step Test
•Isolated
cyclovertical
muscle palsy
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Parks 3-step Test
Left Hypertropia
1.Of 8 cyclovertical
muscles: 4
LSO, LIR, RSR, RIO
2.Of 4 cyclovertical
muscles: 2
increase on R gaze: LSO,
RSR
3.Of 2 cyclovertical
muscles: 1
increase of L tilt: LSO
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(Masked) Bilateral
superior oblique palsy
•V pattern
•Reversal of hypertropia
•Frames 1 and 3
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
•Cross-sectional area
•Applications:
•EOM palsy
•EOM heterotopy
•Severed/extirpated muscles
•Entrapment
•Mass
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Normal coronal section
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
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Demer, J L. Miller JL. “Orbital Imaging in Strabismus Surgery.” Clinical Strabismus Management, 1st ed., W.B.Saunders Company, 1999, pp. 84–88. Google Books,
Macias, Emilio, III. ”Pattern Strabismus.” Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus: A Comprehensive Guide to Diagnosis and Management, 1st ed., 2022, 306.
Normal coronal section
From Rosenbaum & Santiago, Clinical Strabismus Management 1999
MRI for Imaging
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CASE 1CASE 2
Courtesy of J. Redondo Villanueva, MD
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High Myopia with Esotropia
G = globe
L = LR
S = SR
Angle of Dislocation of the Globe
Yamaguchi M, Yokoyama T, Shiraki K. Surgical procedure for correcting globe dislocation in highly myopic strabismus. Am J Ophthalmol. 2009; 149:341.e2–346.e2. [PubMed: 19939345]
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References
•Rosenbaum AL, Santiago AP. Clinical Strabismus
Management: Principles and Surgical Technique
1999, Elsevier, Philadelphia.
•Santiago AP, Rosenbaum AL. Dissociated Vertical
Deviations and Head Tilts. J AAPOS 1998; 2: 5-11.
•Von Noorden GK. Binocular Vision and Ocular
Motility: Theory and Management of Strabismus.
1990, Mosby, Philadelphia.
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Laser vision ;-)
No more than a pinhole effect!
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