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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ISBN: 9780323876346

Publication Date: 02-14-2023

Page Count: 352

Imprint: Elsevier

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Key Features
- 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
Contents

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
1. Useful Information
2. Sample Record Sheets
3. Patient Literature
4: Examples of Clinic Letters
Authors

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