Claire Howard is a Stroke Specialist Research Orthoptist based at Salford Royal Hospital and is part of the VISION research unit at University of Liverpool. She holds an NIHR clinical fellowship and is currently researching the area of adaptation to post stroke visual field loss. Her main field of interest is rehabilitation of visual impairment following stroke. She will be speaking at the upcoming BGS Spring Meeting in Nottingham.
The size of the problem: the point prevalence of visual impairment in stroke survivors has been reported as 72% (Rowe, Hepworth, Hanna, & Howard, 2016). This visual impairment can be the result of a range of different problems either individually or in combination; these problems include visual field loss, eye movement disorders, reduced / blurred vision and visual perception defects. In the post stroke period, a person may be experiencing a visual impairment that is of new onset, or their visual problems may pre-exist the stroke. Continue reading
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