Some Thoughts on Clinical Eye Movement Testing

Abstract

Assessment of eye movements is one of the most important procedures in the optometric armamentarium. Since abnormal eye movements are found in a wide range of vision-based (e.g., amblyopia) and non-vision-based (e.g., multiple sclerosis) diagnoses, which in many cases are remediable, it is crucial that they be tested in a careful, informative manner, with their functional consequences considered. In this paper, some of our thoughts on this important clinical process are presented.