cover image - Low Vision, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323876346
Copyright: 2024
Publication Date: 02-14-2023
Page Count: 352
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $96.99

Low Vision, 1st Edition

by Christine Dickinson, BSc PhD FCOptom PGCertHE, Ana Hernandez Trillo, BSc MSc PhD PGDipMEd SFHEA and Michael Crossland

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cover image - Low Vision, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323876346
Copyright: 2024
Publication Date: 02-14-2023
Page Count: 352
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $96.99
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    • Features comprehensive guidance on visual rehabilitation for acuity loss and visual field loss.

    • Describes a wealth of practical advice and real-world case scenarios to help guide your day-to-day patient interactions as well as your most challenging situations.

    • Covers hot topics, including the link between mental health and low vision, assistive technologies, measures of quality of life and other outcome measures, WHO classifications of visual impairment, and best practices for auditing and commissioning vision services.

    • Contains over 200 diagrams, illustrations, and patient photos to aid in visual understanding.

    • Explains how eye care professionals can work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide complete care.

    • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

  • PART 1 Defining Low Vision
    1 What Is Low Vision?
    2 Prevalence and Causes of Low Vision
    3 Clinical Measures of Visual Performance
    4 Patient Centred Outcome Measures
    PART 2 Magnification as a Strategy for Improving Visual Performance
    5 Magnification
    6 Relative Size Magnification: Increasing the Object Size
    7 Relative Distance Magnification: Decreasing the Viewing Distance
    8 Transverse Magnification
    9 Angular Magnification
    PART 3 Other Methods for Visual Rehabilitation
    10 Contrast and Glare
    11 Illumination and Lighting
    12 Aids for Peripheral Field Loss
    13 Special Training Techniques for Visual Field Loss
    14 Rehabilitation Techniques for Nystagmus
    15 Sensory Substitution
    16 Inclusive and Universal Design
    PART 4 Clinical Procedures
    17 The Low Vision Assessment
    18 The Eye Examination
    19 Prescribing Magnification
    20 Instruction and Training in the Use of Magnifiers
    21 Evaluating Low Vision Services
    22 The Place of Low Vision in Optometric Practice
    23 Case Studies
    PART 5 Appendices
    Appendix 1: Useful Information
    Appendix 2: Sample Record Sheets
    Appendix 3: Patient Literature
    Appendix 4: Examples of Clinic Letters
    Index
  • Christine Dickinson, BSc PhD FCOptom PGCertHE, Professor of Clinical Optometry and Lead for Undergraduate Masters, Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, Ana Hernandez Trillo, BSc MSc PhD PGDipMEd SFHEA, Senior Lecturer in Optometry, Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK and Michael Crossland, Senior Research Fellow, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College of London and Specialist Optometrist, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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