Excitingly there's a session on management of visual impairment following stroke at the UKSF this year. The exciting thing is the emphasis on management - is it finally being accepted that there really is something that can be done about stroke-related visual impairment?!
The UKSF is in Liverpool this year, December 1st-3rd.
The vision session is on Wed 2nd December in Room 4, details as follows:
11.45 – 13.00
Room 4
Parallel session 1D
Management of visual impairment following stroke
Chair: Claire Howard (British and Irish Orthoptic Society Lead for Stroke and Neuro
Rehab)
1 - Management of visual field loss following stroke – including research results
from VISION trial
Dr Fiona Rowe (Reader in Orthoptics and Health Services Research / NIHR Fellow,
University of Liverpool)
2 - Management and advice for visual perception difficulties following stroke
including visual hallucinations
Carmel Noonan (Consultant Ophthalmologist, Aintree University Hospitals)
3 - Management of eye movement problems following stroke
Caroline Dodridge (Stroke Specialist Othoptist, Oxford University Hospital)
