Adults Final 2015: Vision Flashcards
What are the foundational skills in Warren’s Hierarchy for Visual Perceptual Development?
oculomotor control: ability to move the eyes in tandem to produce single visual image (binocularity)
visual field: what you see without moving your head
visual acuity: sharp vision; function of fovea in retina
Why is Warren’s Hierarchy useful?
It is a development framework for eval/tx of visual-perceptual deficits. Higher skills build on lower ones and are impacted by disruption of lower skills. Tx addresses lower skills to help restore higher ones.
Diplopia:
- double vision, often due to problem w oculomotor function
- usually resolves on its own but improves faster w eye patch on weaker eye, and hemi-taped glasses
What are the six extra ocular muscles and their functions on the eyeball (from neutral)?
- medial rectus - adduction
- lateral rectus - abduction
- superior rectus - elevation
- inferior rectus - depression
- superior oblique - intorsion (superior part of eyeball toward nose)
- inferior oblique - extorsion
Visual acuity deficits:
- inability to focus image on retina (trauma)
- inability of retina to process image (disease)
- inability of optic nerve to transmit image (trauma, disease)
►7 visual acuity interventions:
- increase: background contrast, lighting (2)
- reduce: background patterns, clutter (2)
- enlarge objects, organize materials, use community resources for compensatory strategies (3)
Visual field deficits:
loss of vision in part of normal field of view:
- anopsias such as hemianopsias (most common w stroke) and quadrantanopsia
- scotoma (blind spot)
What is hemianopsia?
a deficit in which each eye loses half its visual field
Three types of hemianopsia:
Binasal: loss of nasal half of vision in both eyes
Bi temporal: loss of temporal half of vis. in both
Homonymous: loss of same half of each eye
VFD cause and impact:
Cause: often stroke/tbi
Impact: client gets dependent on perceptual fill-in (AKA perceptual completion) so is unaware of what’s really there; visual search function slow and delayed; can produce anxiety
►VFD intervention using mobility:
- help client increase distance, speed, frequency of head turning (for vis. search)
- organize the scanning strategy
- encourage detection of objects in the VFD
- encourage attention to objects
- practice shift of attention from central to peripheral fields, esp. in VFD area
►scanning activities for mobility:
- “I see something (color)”; client has to find it
- “narrative walk” - describe what you see on client’s blind side
- mall walks
- hazard identification (steps, curbs, holes in the street, etc.)
- landmark identification
►VFD intervention: reading
- pre-reading exercises to adapt saccade strategies
- practice reading w large-print text
- visual cues to identify L or R margin
- use of fingertip or pen to follow the line
- tracing the line
- practicing writing checks or addressing envelopes with new strategies
- increase lighting, contrast
- reduce patterns in background, clutter
- organize reading environment
Unilateral neglect (UN):
- attentional disorder, often after stroke & on L
- reduced perception of stimuli contralateral to brain lesion
- associated neglect of limbs, sensory input
- high correlation w parietal lesions
- poor rehab outcomes
effects of neglect
- asymmetrical visual search patterns
- client misses info on L side
- fixates on most peripheral vis. stimuli on R side
- client doesn’t re-scan independently
UN severity level/ways of classifying:
- by what behavior is manifested: hemi-inattention, hemi-sensory inattention, visuo-spatial neglect, representational neglect
- by WHAT is being neglected: peri-personal inattention/neglect, peri-spatial inattention/neglect
►behavioral indicators of neglect
- unsymmetrical weight-bearing
- difficulty initiating movement on L or turning to L
- bumping into things on L
- reduced L arm swing
- failure to check placement of limbs before transfer
- Pusher syndrome
evaluating neglect:
Specialist needed for neuro-opthalmic evals, but these OT screens can determine referral needs:
- visual attention, field, acuity
- oculomotor control, ocular ROM
- fixation, vergence, alignment
- visual pursuit, tracking, saccades
►Cancellation tests (to evaluate neglect)
multiple variations, including:
- star cancellation from multiple symbol chart
- double letter cancellation from random letters list (e.g. find all Es AND Rs)
- line bisection tests
other ways to evaluate visual-perceptual problems:
drawing and copying designs such as flower, house, tree, clock
►Interventions overview (for neglect):
- saccadic eye movement training
- neck muscle vibration (TENS)
- trunk rotation
- proprioceptive input
- optokinetic stimulation
- limb activation - visuo-motor cueing with tool use
- patching/occlusion
- prism use & adaptation
- scanning
- imagery (?)
- common visual and auditory spatial origination
- other assistive technologies
saccades evaluation:
King-Devick test, in which pt. performs functional tasks dependent on visual-spatial organization
training saccadic movement
- scan boards
- eye charts
- large-print shapes/letters on table or wall
- “follow the flashlight”
- your own ideas…
trunk rotation:
Rotating trunk, head and neck to affected side reduces symptoms of neglect.
*Think of activities that produce trunk rotation in high- and low-tone situations.
proprioceptive input:
Grade input: gentle joint compression to supported wt. bearing on soft surfaces, then hard surfaces, then w/ weights/bands, etc.
*Pay attention to painful shoulders!
limb activation:
- small, volitional movements w body part on L
- grade for + movement, concentration, volition
- consider “yoked” movement w functional use, where therapist wraps her LUE to client LUE
visuo-motor cueing and tool use:
- a form of limb activation
- evidence shows that adding object in affected extremity increases att’n to affected side
patching/occlusion:
- evidence shows patching unaffected hemi-field increases att’n to affected hemi-field
- partial lens occlusion in avail. field promotes scanning in affected field
►prism use:
- prisms found to be one of the most successful methods for reducing neglect
- prisms are prescribed by the optho or neuro-optho
- OT accompnay client to optho/neuro-optho eval when possible
- conduct activities with prisms
- caution: mobility, transfers, standing
visual scanning training (VST):
beneficial in short run for reducing neglect but effects don’t last; combine w/ other interventions