This video shows Fiona Rowe, Research Lead for the British and Irish Orthoptic Society at NB Live 2014, a conference organised by the Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB)
Dr Rowe is a tireless researcher and campaigner for people with vision problems after stroke.
She asserts:
1. We need to better identify stroke survivors with visual impairment
2. Information for stroke survivors with vision problems exists and needs to be more widely used
3. There is a care pathway for stroke survivors with vision loss
4. There are free rehabilitation resources for stroke survivors with vision problems
5. Good practice post-stroke vision care exists around the country [UK]
The page on the RNIB's web site devoted to Fiona Rowe's talk can be reach following the link below:
Visual Vertical testing certainly warrants additional investigation and could represent an inexpensive, easily performed method by which to quantify verticality disorders post stroke. stroke rehabilitation program
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