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Can you get wandering-eye or cross-eye from being punched on the side of your face?
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Yes: Damage the bones of the orbit surrounding the eye can injure the ye muscles or optic nerve. Proper ophthalmic evaluation is necessary to determine the cause.
Answered 7/5/2012
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Rarely: Head trauma can produce a cranial nerve vi palsy causing an eye to turn inward.
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