9-Ocular Motility Flashcards
Primary position of the eyes
Eyes fixate straight ahead and eyes and head are straight
Secondary position
Around the X ad Z axes of Fick. Purely vertical or horizontal
Tertiary position
Y axis and head tilt positions
How many cardinal positions do we have
6
What are cardinal positions
Positions where only 1 muscle in each eye is responsible for movement
What is the field of action
The gaze where the effect of a muscle is best observed
Any weakness of the SO can be seen as what
Depression in adduction
Why I’d the field of action important
Is helps you isolate if a deviation seen is weakness of that muscle, a restriction of action from the antagonist, or both
What is agonist antagonist of motility
Pair of muscles in the SAME eye that move in opposite direction
What are synergistic muscles
Muscles in the SAME eye that move in the SAME direction
What are yoke muscles
Pair of muscles, one in each eye, the produce conjugate eye movements (move eye in same direction)
What is the Sherrington law of reciprocal innervation
Increased innervation to on e muscle is accompanied by a decrease innervation to its antagonist in the same eye
What is the hering law of equal innervation
During conjugate eye movements, equal and simultaneous innervation flow to yoked muscles
Due to Herings law of equal innervation what will you see if there is a palsy in one muscle
The yoke muscle in the other eye will over react
What muscles are important for horizontal versions
Vertical rectus muscles and oblique muscles
What muscles are important for vertical versions
Horizontal rectus muscles
Primary deviation
Unaffected eye fixates
Secondary deviation:
Restricted eye fixates
Which is bigger a primary or secondary deviation?
Secondary, because there is increased innervation to move the affected eye
T/F Increase innervation goes to the non-fixating eye that causes excessive action and a larger deviation
True
Ductions
Movement of one eye sound the axes of Fick
Monocular
Versions
Binocular
Simultaneous and conjugate eye movements or rotation of both eyes
What are conjugate eye movements
Both eyes move in the same direction and same amount
Vergences are
Disconjugate eye movements where the eyes rotate or move in opposite directions
What are vergences important for
Fusion
Convergence
Both eyes rotate in
Divergence
Both eyes rotate out
Incyclovergence
Rotation of the superior portion of the eyes in