Cover Test Demystified: Diagnosing Ocular Misalignment

Cover Test Demystified: Diagnosing Ocular Misalignment

Clinical Skills Corner
Episode 12
04:112025-10-12
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Episode Description

An objective guide to assessing eye alignment with the cover test. Learn to identify tropias, phorias, and other binocular vision disorders. This episode breaks down the cover-uncover and alternating cover tests to diagnose strabismus.

Tags

cover test
strabismus
tropia
phoria
binocular vision
ocular alignment
unilateral cover test
alternating cover test
prism bars
pseudostrabismus

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