Common Occupational Therapy Vision Rehabilitation Interventions for Impaired and Low Vision Associated with Brain Injury.
Background: Visual impairments secondary to traumatic brain injury (TBI) may include loss of acuity or visual field, convergence insufficiency, divergence insufficiency, strabismus, oculomotor dysfunction, or accommodative dysfunction. Neuro-ophthalmologists, neurooptometrists, and occupational ther...
| Publicado en: | Optometry & Visual Performance Vol. 4; no. 5; pp. 265 - 275 |
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Optometric Extension Program
Nov2016
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