title: Adaptation to vertical prism.
abstract: Patients with vertical heterophoria and a reduced ability to adapt to an induced vertical prism are appropriate patients for a vertical prismatic correction. A clinical method is presented for identifying those patients with a reduced ability to adapt to an induced vertical prism.
authors.affiliation: School of Optometry, Medical Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Eskridge
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D006801:Humans; D007909:Lenses; D009907:Optometry / Q000295:instrumentation; D013285:Strabismus / Q000503:physiopathology