Eye Movements Flashcards

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Importance of eye movements

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  • the eyes move to initiate and maintain fixation by directing the line of sight
  • important to keep image on the retina
  • both eyes should get image at the same time
  • important for following objects
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Listing Plane

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  • imaginary coronal plane through the center of the globe

- globe rotates on the axis of Fick

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X,Y, and Z Axis

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X-eye rotates up and down
Y-torsional rotations. top of the eye rotates clockwise or counter clockwise
Z-eye rotates left and right

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Duction

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  • movement of one eye around the axes of fick
  • monocular
  • close one eye and have one eye look in all the directions
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5
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Version

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  • binocular

- simultaneous and conjugate movement of both eyes

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6
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Torsion

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Twist of the eye clockwise of counter clockwise

  • intorsion-top of the eye rotates towards nose
  • Extorsion-top of the eye rotates away from nose
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Conjugate eye movement

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  • binocular

- visual axis of both eyes are in the same direction to maintain fixation with both eyes.

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Vergence

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  • disconjugate eye movement
  • visual axes rotate in opposite directions
  • convergence-both rotate in
  • divergence-both rotate out
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9
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Extraocular muscles numbers

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EOM

  • 4 recti muscles
  • 2 oblique muscles
  • FOR EACH EYE
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Horizontal recti muscles

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  • in primary gaze, horizontal movement around Z axis

- medial and lateral

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Medial Rectus

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  • moves the eye to the nose
  • adduction
  • innervated by oculomotor nerve
  • inserts 5.5mm from nasal limbus
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Lateral Rectus

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  • Moves the eye away from the nose
  • aBduction
  • innervated by abducent nerve
  • inserts 6.9mm from temporal limbus
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Vertical Recti

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  • still about Z axis

- superior and inferior rectus

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Superior rectus

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  • move eye up
  • elevation
  • secondary-intorsion. tertiary-aDduction
  • oculomotor nerve
  • 7.7mm from superior limbus
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Inferior Rectus

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-moves eye down
-depression
secondary-extorsion. tertiary-aDduction
-oculomotor nerve
-6.5mm from inferior limbus

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Medial and Lateral walls

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  • 45 degrees of eachother
  • orbital axis if 23 degrees of the two walls
  • in primary gaze, the orbital axis is at 23 degrees of the visual axis
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Oblique Muscles

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  • insert behind equator at 51 degree angle with the visual axis
  • superior oblique and inferior oblique
18
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Superior oblique

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  • intorsion
  • secondary-depression. tertiary-aBduction
  • trochlear nerve
  • passes through trochlea on medial walls and reflects back to the posterior quadrant
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Inferior oblique

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  • extorsion
  • secondary-elevation. tertiary-aBduction
  • oculomotor nerve
  • originates at small depression on orbital floor. inserts in posterior lower temporal quadrant close to the macula
20
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diagnostic positions of gaze

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  • 6 cardinal points
  • 3 other points in primary position, upgaze, and downgaze (6,1,5)
  • cardinal points represent the points in which one muscle is responsible for the movement (2,3,4,7,8,9)
  • Diagnostic positions are ones where deviations are measured (1-9)
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Agonist-antagonist

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  • pair of muscles in the SAME eye that move the eye in opposite directions
  • medial and lateral rectus
22
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Synergist muscle

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  • muscles in the SAME eye that move the eye in the same direction
  • inferior oblique and superior rectus
23
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Yoke Muscles

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  • pair of muscles ONE IN EACH EYE that produce conjugate eye movements
  • right inferior oblique and left superior rectus
24
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Sherrington law of reciprocal innervation

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-increased innervation to one muscle is accompanied by a reciprocal decreased innervation to its antagonist in the same eye.

25
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Hering law of equal innervation

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  • during conjugate eye movements, equal and simultaneous innervations flow to yoked muscles.
  • helpful to see palsy because the yoke muscle in other eye will overreact
26
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Evaluation tid bits

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  • NO GLASSES
  • assess ability to maintain fixation
  • dont let the patient move their head
  • target should be 40cm from patient
  • ease, smoothness, accuracy
  • “full and smooth”
  • do VERSIONS first(only duction if weird)
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End point nystagmus

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  • involuntary oscillation of the eye when you go too far in a gaze
  • beat motion