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In a traumatic eye injury why is the un-injured eye covered up also?

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Prevent movement: Occasionally, this would be done if you were worried about movement of the eye causing further damage, since they both always move together. Covering both eyes would lessen searching eye movements.

Answered 7/5/2012

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