Objective Orthoptic Treatment

Diana Craig

This paper is about a search for more effective methods of orthoptic treatment than offered in text books. Where guidance from neurology leaves gaps, these have been tentatively filled in the light of orthoptic experience. “Those that go down to the sea in ships…these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.” The orthoptist deeply involved in the troubles of her patient across the synoptophore, perhaps gains glimpses of the workings of visuo-motor mechanisms that are hidden from others.