We are back this month with a testimonial from our patient John. He had to overcome some hurdles before beginning VRT but at the end it was all worth it. We are happy to hear that our therapies have had a significant improvement in his activities of daily life. Here is John’s testimonial:
“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…
Many of those who have had a stroke or other brain injury will experience vision problems, but often they will not realise they have a visual field deficit. Their brains may adjust to process visual information coming from the seeing part of their visual field and then be surprised to encounter objects in the blind…
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?
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…
Every thirty seconds someone has a stroke in the EU, where there are approximately 7.5 million stroke survivors, and 1 million people each year are hospitalised with a brain injury. Up to 30% of these experience a resultant vision disorder, up to 20% permanently. Many have received little hope from their doctors that anything can…
In the context of neurological visual field loss we very often hear about hemianopia, the loss of the right or left half of the visual field in both eyes. However, some patients with neurological visual field loss find the term “quadrantanopia” in their medical records. If “hemianopia” means that you cannot see in half of…
At NovaVision we are sometimes asked the question: “what is the difference between your therapies and a brain training app I can download for less money?”
When you have problems with your vision and go to an ophthalmology practice, often not only your eyes and their visual acuity are measured, but also your visual field is examined with a perimeter. First of all: What is the visual field? The visual field is the area of your vision that you can perceive…
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