Motility Basics Simulation

This course is intended for beginning and intermediate levels. The student should be able to demonstrate the following concepts:

• Define Motility
• Identify the 9 postions for testing versions
• Describe why the pupil light reflex is important in assesing motility and versions
• Identify abnormal versions and state which position is abnormal
• Define Eso, Exo, Hyper, Phoria, and Tropia
• Document Esophorias, Exophorias, Esotropias, and Exotropias correctly
• Identify how to document straight eyes
• Explain how to do Hirschberg and Krimsky measurements
• Identify deviations in diopters by Hirschberg estimation
• Describe how to perform the Cover/Uncover test
• Correctly identify esophoria, exophoria, esotropia, exotropia and ortho eyes on cover/uncover test simulations

This course is in power point format and includes multiple simulations of motility problems that you might encounter in the clinic setting. These simulations are included to aid in your understanding of how to identify, label, and measure motility. They mimic real motility situations so that you may follow along and see how to identify motility issues while having it explained to you. Once you have completed this course you should be able to perform basic motility testing and label eso and exo deviations in your clinic.

This course should take approximately 2 hours to complete.

This course is pending approval from the AOA Commission on Paraoptometric Certification (CPC) for continuing education credit for use toward paraoptometric certification renewal.