Patients who have recently experienced a stroke or brain injury will often tell their physicians that they are having difficulty seeing out of one eye. Although certain conditions may mimic this sensation, visual problems that occur after a stroke or brain injury are not typically a result of damage to your eyes at all. More…
We get the most knowledge of our surroundings through our eyes; they convey more than any of our other senses. Every second the eyes absorb 10 million pieces of information and pass it on to the brain. Our vision adapts to different light conditions at cyber speed, refocusing within fractions of a second and distinguishing…
The pituitary gland is situated in the center of the brain, about 10 cm behind the nose, along a virtual line between the ears. In spite of its small size – about the size of a cherry-pit – it is very important. The pituitary gland is the superior ductless gland of the body and produces…
“I Have Achieved Everything I Hoped For From The Therapy” Experiences with VRT: a patient and her optometrist tell her story From time to time we like to bring you real life stories of our patients and how our therapies have affected their daily lives. In this blog we present two sides of the same…
NovaVision Vision Restoration Therapy VRT is designed to improve visual functions in patients with neurological visual field loss. The most common cause of neurological visual field loss is an ischemic stroke, in particular, a stroke affecting the posterior cerebral artery (PCA), or a brain haemorrhage (haemorrhagic stroke).
An enlargement of the visual field by 5 degrees of visual angle – what does it really mean? Is that a lot or a little? Will it have a positive impact on my everyday living activities?
Atrial fibrillation, also known as AFib, is a heart condition that is often discussed within the stroke community. Your cardiovascular health has a direct impact on the chances of having a stroke, but the risk is greater in people with AFib. In fact you are five times more likely to have a stroke if you…
NovaVision offers two different therapy programs for rehabilitation of neurological vision loss – NeuroEyeCoach and Vision Restoration Therapy (VRT) – which we provide in a single therapy suite for €900. These therapies do different things, and in this blog we explain why it makes the most sense to do both these therapies, one after the…
A stroke occurs every five minutes in the UK where there are approximately 1.2 million stroke survivors(ref), and around 348,000 people are admitted to hospital with a brain injury each year(ref). Up to 60% of people who have a stroke will experience some kind of vision disorder. Vision disorders can come in the form of…
The term “Cortical Blindness” describes the partial or complete loss of vision resulting from a brain lesion. With this type of visual impairment the eyes can be fully intact, but the visual information cannot be transmitted to the brain regions in which these are processed into meaningful visual input such as brightness-contrasts, colors, objects, faces….
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