Trochlear nerve palsy. Dr. Jeff Hersh/Daily News Correspondent. Q: My friend had a head injury while playing soccer. She did not lose consciousness or anything, but she developed what the doctor ...

The trochlear nerve, also known as cranial nerve 4 (CN IV), controls the superior oblique muscle in your eye. This muscle allows you to move your eyeball down and shift your gaze from side to side.

This is known as superior oblique palsy, trochlear nerve palsy, or fourth nerve palsy. Some individuals are born with this condition while others develop it later on in life. It usually affects ...

Fourth (trochlear) nerve palsy is the commonest congenital cranial nerve palsy. 1 Physically slender, with a long intracranial course, this nerve is subject to traumatic damage.

Compr Ophthalmol Update. 2007;8(1):39-49. Thomke et al described isolated cranial nerve palsies in 24 of a total of 1,218 patients with MS (1.6%); 11 of the patients had palsy of the third, fourth ...

Along with the oculomotor nerve (CN III) and the trochlear nerve (CN IV), it provides movement to the muscles around the eyeball rather than attaching to the eye itself. Location.

Isolated third cranial nerve palsies in head trauma patients can be the result of direct or indirect damage to the oculomotor nerve. They are usually associated with severe head trauma. We reported a ...