Revisiting Vision Rehabilitation

Low vision is a condition caused by eye or brain disease, in which visual acuity is 20/70 (3/10 or 6/18) or poorer in the better-seeing eye and cannot be corrected or improved with regular eyeglasses. It impacts personal ability to perform vision-dependent tasks as activities of daily living, walkin...

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Main Authors: Claire Meyniel, Bahram Bodaghi, Pierre-Yves Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnsys.2017.00082/full
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spelling doaj-e6ba72a5b0d04608a9cd00720d1c38bd2020-11-25T00:26:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience1662-51372017-11-011110.3389/fnsys.2017.00082275736Revisiting Vision RehabilitationClaire Meyniel0Claire Meyniel1Bahram Bodaghi2Bahram Bodaghi3Pierre-Yves Robert4Pierre-Yves Robert5Department of Neurophysiology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, FranceDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris, FranceDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris, FranceDepartment of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, FranceDepartment of Ophthalmology, Limoges Hospital, Limoges, FranceDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Limoges, Limoges, FranceLow vision is a condition caused by eye or brain disease, in which visual acuity is 20/70 (3/10 or 6/18) or poorer in the better-seeing eye and cannot be corrected or improved with regular eyeglasses. It impacts personal ability to perform vision-dependent tasks as activities of daily living, walking, reading or using a computer. Rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary training dedicated to improve patients’ functional abilities and quality of life. It has to be personalized to every individual situation, whatever the underlying pathology.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnsys.2017.00082/fulllow visionrehabilitationvisual impairmentblindnessquality of liferecovery
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Revisiting Vision Rehabilitation
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
low vision
rehabilitation
visual impairment
blindness
quality of life
recovery
author_facet Claire Meyniel
Claire Meyniel
Bahram Bodaghi
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Pierre-Yves Robert
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title Revisiting Vision Rehabilitation
title_short Revisiting Vision Rehabilitation
title_full Revisiting Vision Rehabilitation
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publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
issn 1662-5137
publishDate 2017-11-01
description Low vision is a condition caused by eye or brain disease, in which visual acuity is 20/70 (3/10 or 6/18) or poorer in the better-seeing eye and cannot be corrected or improved with regular eyeglasses. It impacts personal ability to perform vision-dependent tasks as activities of daily living, walking, reading or using a computer. Rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary training dedicated to improve patients’ functional abilities and quality of life. It has to be personalized to every individual situation, whatever the underlying pathology.
topic low vision
rehabilitation
visual impairment
blindness
quality of life
recovery
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