Friday 20 March 2015

Free Online Therapy for Stroke-Related Visual Loss (again)

Now and again I put up a post about online vision training, designed for stroke but potentially beneficial for other brain-related causes of vision loss. I've done this more than once because it's such an easy way of trying to improve your vision and it doesn't cost anything. Evidence for its effectiveness is limited but studies do seem to show it helps.  Why not give it a go?

The Stroke Association describes these methods on >THIS PAGE<.

A brief article by >Dr ALEX LEFF< which outlines these and other visual rehab methods can be found >HERE<.  He developed the online visual rehab methods described at University College London.

I should declare that I've been awarded The Stroke Association Thompson Family Senior Clinical Lectureship and know Alex Leff, so have a potential conflict of interest here, but the therapies are free and I don't have any direct relationship with the research group or the therapies.

Saturday 14 March 2015

VISION MODULE for STROKE NURSES and ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS


Are you a nurse or allied health professional working with stroke survivors?  Make sure you know about visual problems, how to recognise them, and what sort of problems they can cause.  Those are the first steps towards giving them the care they deserve.

STARS (Stroke awareness Training And Resources) has been created by NHS Education for Scotland to improve knowledge about stroke.  They have a module on "Vision after Stroke".  To take a look, follow THIS LINK.

FEATURED

Try Eye-Search, free web-based visual search training from University College London (funded by the Stroke Association).
Listening Books is a UK charity providing audiobooks for people with reading difficulty. Books can be posted on CD, downloaded, or streamed online. There is a membership fee, but it is apparently heavily subsidised.