Visual Rehabilitation: Promoting Sight, Self-Care, Safety ...

Visual Rehabilitation: Promoting Sight, Self-Care, Safety & Success

May 14, 2015

LINDA CLEMENTE, OTR/L PATRICIA HIGGINS MS, OTR/L

NIDHI SHAH PT, DPT HEALTHSOUTH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL OF TINTON FALLS

BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION

PATTI HIGGINS, MS, OTR/L

Vision: One of the Most Important Senses

u Allows us to gather, process and react to the environment

u Enables us to plan movements, move within our environment, and maintain an upright position in space.

u Allows us to accurately attend to environmental information, integrate it, and use it to make daily decisions

u First system to alert us to DANGER and PLEASURE

VISION is used for:

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uDecision making-executive functioning uSocial Interactions and facial expressions uMotor and postural control uPlanning ahead for what the environment

presents us with

VISION -> PRIMARY WAY OF ACQUIRING INFORMATION

u1/3 to 1/2 of the brain is devoted to pure visual processing

u90% of sensory input is VISION

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