- Cover-Uncover Test (Strabismus)
Ask the patient to look at an object at the end of the room
Cover the patient’s left eye with your right hand watching for movement in the uncovered right eye to take up fixation
Uncover the left eye
Cover the right eye with your left hand watching for movement in the uncovered left eye to take up fixation
If there is fixation movement, the patient has heterotopia (strabismus)