Case Conference 1 Flashcards
Explain the field of preventive optometry
Optometrist are no longer satisfied in prescribing lenses as prosthetic devices, but consider them as means of maintaining visual efficiency
Explain the field of visual enhancement in optometry
Optometrists possess the key to increased visual efficiency for patients to perform job easily, quickly and efficiently
Based upon the principle of relativity
Physical science
Based upon the concept that the whole organism is more than the sum total of its isolated parts
Biological sciences
Based upon the concept of Gestalt
Psychology
Based upon the concept that vision is a function that involves the whole organism
Field of optometry
Convergence
Skeletal
Accommodation
Visceral
Perceptual
Cortical
Seeks and holds a visual image
Skeletal
Discriminates and defines the image
Visceral
Skeletal: Extrinsic eye muscles, Visceral: _______
Intrinsic eye muscles
A procedure for summing up optometric analytical data for purposes of classification
Case analysis
A normal eye viewpoint which requires that the system must possess certain ideal values in order to be considered normal
Normative viewpoint
A normal eye viewpoint which is free of pathology and has no abnormal disturbance
Pathological viewpoint
A normal eye viewpoint where a normal system is one which agrees with the statistics established for a group of similar system
Statistical viewpoint
3 stages of physical stages that occur under stress
Neural
Neuro-muscular
Muscular