| Visual Field Loss and problems in everyday life |
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| Visual field loss due to cerebral
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| Patients with vision field defects, caused by stroke or brain injury, see some areas in their visual field as black, grey, blurred or distorted. In the following picture is an example of how patients who have a left-sided hemianopia often describe their vision impairment. |
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| Left-sided hemianopia |
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| Left-sided hemianopia after VRT |
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| Complete visual field |
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| Read
here how does a visual field loss happens |
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| How does visual field loss influence your everyday life? |
| People with visual field loss due to neurological damage
can be very restricted in their everyday life. They may be able to recognise their environment but they see only extracts of what they used to see as a complete picture. The effects cause serious problems in day to day life - for example: |
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Overlooking persons or obstacles, thereby increasing risk of injury. |
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Danger is not realised in time, even as a pedestrian it is no longer safe to be on the road. |
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Reading and working are made substantially more difficult. |
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Leisure activities such as reading, watching television or doing crossword puzzles are limited. Even eating can become a problem. |
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| How can the Vision Restoration Therapy (VRT) help you? |
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Most of our patients can restore their visual field through VRT, even if the cause of their visual impairment occurred many years ago. Neurologically resultant visual field loss was considered incurable for many years. But the latest research and clinical studies carried out by the Institute of Medical Psychology of the Magdeburg University have proven that the brain has the capacity to repair itself. This capacity is
defined as neuroplasticity. |
