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i cannot find neutral point easily!!
help!
help!
i cannot find neutral point easily!!
help!
You'll want to try and find the place where the scissors are the brightest/fastest, and the scissoring motion is most uniform. Take that as neutrality for the given meridian and move on. Note that this is probably a waste of time if you're just using your retinoscopy just to set up for refraction.
If you're not perscribing off of your retinoscopy (i.e., playing the "scope and hope" game), then I wouldn't worry about bracketing neutrality. Pick a reflex that you like to look at and add lenses slowly to bring it closer to neutrality. Once you lose the discernible reflex motion (maybe scissors start) you're close enough to neutrality, so switch to the other meridian and add lenses to make that reflex motion stop. If you start with against-motion in both meridians, then you'd be done at this point.
Assuming you're using a minus cyl phoropter, if you plus the patient up to get against motion in both meridians, the brightest reflex will be your sphere. Once you remove the against motion from that meridian slowly with (̵ sphere lenses, you can eliminate the remaining against motion in the other meridian with (̵ cylindrical lenses, and you've essentially done the same thing as pushing plus while refracting. This is because you're biasing your endpoint towards the least minus side of neutrality. We have to remember that neutrality is a zone for a lot of patients—not a single dioptric point.
KHE (and other OD's too) - how often do you actually do direct in your practice? Some docs love it, others hate it. Do you think it's useful even if you have an autorefractor to give you a starting place for your refraction?
If you mean ophthalmoscopy when you say "direct" then I would say I do it rarely because we dilate most patients. On those that are not dilated, I usually use a 90 at the slit lamp.
If you are referring to retinoscopy, I would say I do it on children under 14 and if there seems to be a large difference in the autorefractor reading and what the patients current prescription is. This rarely happens. Modern autorefractors are pretty accurate.
That's right, I'm talking about a quick and dirty ret here. Ideally, one would just start with an autorefractor rx.Seriously....that method be fine for a 1st or 2nd year retinoscopy assessment...
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it'd be really cool to nail them down.