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BINOCULARITY

BINOCULARITY is the ability of both eyes to focus on and see one object as one object without difficulty.

With binocularity, functions like depth perception, distance perception and movement detection, becomes possible.

With Binocularity in place, the two eyes converge together, diverge together and form a 3D perception.

Conditions that can disrupt binocularity includes, strabismus, amblyopia, loss of one eye, antimetropia or anisometropia, high degree phoria.

Signs and symptoms of lack of binocularity includes inability to tell two objects apart, double vision, eye strain,

Treatment for  Binocularity problems is simply visual therapy and eye exercises.

PRESENTATION  OF ASTIGMATISM
  1. Stubborn headaches that won’t go even with the strongest of pain killers.

2. Recurrent stye

3. Itching.

4. Double vision

4. Blurry vision at far and or near distance

5. Always feeling dizzy and unmotivated to read or work with your digital devices.

6. Photophobia ( discomforts when exposed to bright light)

7. Light appearing in streaks.

STRABISMUS

This is a disorder where by both eyes of an individual faces different positions of gaze.

This condition is also called crossed eyes,  or squint.

It is caused by injury to the eyes extraocular muscles, muscle paralysis, higher center lesions, surgery et.c.

Signs and symptoms includes visible crossed eyes, diplopia, blurry vision.

Treatment includes the use of eye patch,  eye exercises, surgery, prisms and corrective lenses.

EYE PATCH

Many people may or may not be familiar with Eye patch. For those who are familiar with it, but don’t know the rationale behind it, bare in mind that it may not be an Insignia or fashion item of some sort but a form of treatment.

Most eye patches are recommended by the optometrist as treatment for certain eye issues.

Some of these eye issues includes.

Amblyopia or lazy eye.

Binocular diplopia or double vision

Infection

Cornea abrasion

Strabismus/squint.

Although some eye patch are usually fashion oriented. But whenever you see someone with an eye patch, bare in mind that the person may be treating the aforementioned conditions.

EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE

Epiretinal membrane also known as cellophane maculopathy or macular pucker is an avascular, Semi translucent, fibrocellular formed over the Retinal surface.

This membrane is caused by changes in vitreous integrity, retinal detachment et.c

This condition have been known to cause painless loss of vision.

Most of the time epiretinal membrane is asymptomatic but it can result in diplopia, metamorphopsia.

Treatment options involves surgical intervention.

BLOW OUT FRACTURE

Blow out fracture occurs when one or more of the seven bones surrounding the eye ( eye socket) breaks.

This usually occur when there a blunt trauma like  punch, baseball smack to the face/the eyes.

This condition can also occur during a road traffic accident.

Signs and symptoms includes eye pain, double vision, reduced vision, pain on eye movement, et.c.

Treatment involves the use of systemic anti-inflammatory medications and in situations where you have a break in the orbital floor, surgery may be required.

DIPLOPIA or Double vision (causes, signs and symptoms, Treatment)

Diplopia occurs when an individual sees Double image of an object.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Both the left and right eye sees objects differently and send their individual signals to the brain. Processing and fusion of the two images occur in the brain.

In cases of refractive Errors, strabismus, and most times, pathologies, both eyes send images of one object with different sizes to the brain, thereby making it difficult for the brain to fuse the images.

CAUSES:

  1. Strabismus
  2. Phoria
  3. Refractive Errors
  4. Anisometropia and antimetropia
  5. Anisekonia
  6. Pathologies

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS: visualizing two images of an object side by side, diagonally or vertically placed, dizziness

TREATMENT: treating the underlying cause resolves the condition.