NEW YORK – Clinicians should consider eye misalignment leading to trigeminal dysphoria in patients with symptoms of dry eye, fatigue, occipital and neck pain radiating to the eye, and light sensitivity, Ray Corbin-Simon, OD, said in a presentation at Vision Expo East.
“Small horizontal prims corrections can provide significant relief in symptomatic patients,” she said.
“Proprioceptive fibers innervate the extraocular muscles and provide afferent feedback to the brain about the location of each eye,” Corbin-Simon said. “The signals are transmitted to the