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How do I get the vision therapy VRT? (PDF)
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How do I get the vision therapy VRT? (PDF)
How do I get the vision therapy VRT? (PDF)


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Vision Restoration Therapy (VRT)
 
Patient statistics
Every year more than 450,000 people in Germany suffer a stroke or an accident related head/brain injury. Approximately 15,000 people suffer a brain tumour. 20% of these patients experience vision impairment that manifest themselves as hemianopia, quadrantanopia, scotoma or tunnel vision and that were considered untreatable until now. With this type of vision impairment the eyes are totally healthy, or rather healthy according to their age - because the cause is the disrupted processing of visual information in the brain. Until now there has been no possibility of treatment for this vision impairment, which aims to increase the field of vision. The basis for the efficacy of our therapy is the recently explored visual Neuroplasticity. Using the Vision Restoration Therapy certain zones that contain partially damaged nerve cells are stimulated to improve the processing of vision information.
 
Relevance to everyday life
Visual field loss disables a patient in everyday life. Activities such as reading or working, shopping or watching television are often barely possible. This signifies a clear reduction in their quality of life. The following pictures show how patients with varying visual field impairments persumably see and are therefore restricted in their everyday life.
 
Sehstörung Hemianopsie vor der Behandlung
Hemianopia before VRT
 
Sehstörung Hemianopsie nach der Behandlung mit der Sehtherapie VRT
Hemianopia after VRT
 
Vollständiges Gesichtsfeld ohne Sehstörung
Complete visual field
Our VRT Therapy Programme
Compared to other modern rehabilitative therapy forms the Vision Restoration Therapy was conceived as a computerised training. VRT was developed for standard personal computers to enable less mobile, disabled and elderly patients with vision impairment a daily therapy at home.

The patients will sit in front of the computer monitor and comfortably rest his or her head in a headrest. While his or her gaze stays unmoved on a fixation point light stimuli will appear in designated areas of the computer monitor. He or she will recognise these and confirm this by pressing a key. The light stimuli positions are chosen by us so that they appear predominantly in the area with a high improvement potential - zones of residual vision. Patients need neither surgery nor medication. Of over 1200 patients that have performed VRT so far, 65% have achieved a measureable improvement.

 
Our VRT Diagnostic Tools
Before a field of vision loss can be trained it must be correctly diagnosed. A campimetric method (High Resolution Perimetry) is used as a diagnostic tool in many partner centres in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK and in the USA for the effective early detection of visual field loss.

Using the NovaVision programme package a direct diagnosis of the visual field defects can be conducted without extensive equipment. Even the smallest scotoma can be detected reliably due to the high resolution. Apart from the conventional determination of the visual field for light-dark-perception, a colour and shape perimetric examination can also be conducted, which can be used to supplement the diagnosis or clarify specific questions. All the tests can be easily adjusted to the individual needs of patients thanks to the flexibility of the programmes. The diagnostic results can then be directly applied to the preparation of each therapy programme.

 
 
How do you become a NovaVision Partner?
If you are interested in cooperating with us, please contact us.

Our diagnostic tools can be used anytime in your establishment. The only requirements are the availability of a darkened room, a computer and the VRT software and headrest. We offer a one day VRT-Seminar for our partners and interested parties, as well as supply study material and handbooks.

 
Read here about the results of clinical studies
 
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