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Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
Date:
Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:37:07 -0500
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Dave,

        I am not a MD, but in grad school, I administered hundreds of
Telebinocular Vision Tests. There were four muscle balance tests on the
Telebinocular(near point and far point). I noticed that muscle balance was
quite unreliable and very susceptiple to fatigue. Since then, it's bothered
me that people are advised of surgery due to the results of one test on one
day.
Go to an optometrist and see what they say.

Just my two cents.

Bobby


>A while back I sent a message to the list about my impending eye surgery.
>The doctor I had an appointment with at first decided he was too afraid to
>do the surgery because of my asthma and seizures.  I'm sure this is common
>because of people's ignorance about disabilities in general.
>
>Because of this I went for a second opinion and received a very interesting
>bit of news.  After doing testnig he determined that BOTH eyes have problems
>with drifting.  This is interesting to me, because I had never noticed a
>problem on my left(non-affected) side.  He said this was most notable when I
>looked up in that my eyes would both drift out.  He called this a "V
>pattern" and said that this also accounts for my lack of depth perception in
>both eyes.
>
>I remembering hearing that a few on this list have had eye surgery in the
>past.  Have any of you experienced thsi V pattern resulting in surgery on
>both eyes?
>
>Dave, 27 yo Right hemi

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