Quote Originally Posted by physiobob View Post
I wouldn't think looking up is going to help as much as down etc as a ptosis is an inability to close the eyelid. .
Ptosis is the inability to OPEN the eye lid. The levator palpabrae/sup tarsal muscle has dual innervation.
1. CNIII
2. Sympathetic via the superior cervical ganglion

Looking upwards with neck extension will activate reflexogenic drive through CNIII to levator palpabrae in the event there is no damage this nerve. CNIII also innervates the majority of the muslces involved with gaze. Do you also have a strabismus or a significant head tilt? Have you had any orbital trauma?

Alternatively, you could stand in front of something really scary let it shock you and drive the sympathetic pathway to the sup tarsal to crank up that eye lid.

Good luck with it. I agree with physiobob that an orthoptist of behavioral optometrist may be a good source of referral.