The term "low vision" refers to those individuals who have difficulty seeing objects (such as a person's face) beyond a distance of 3 meters, i.e., 10 feet (with their spectacle correction) and/or those who have difficulty with side vision.
Treatments cannot fix your vision or reverse vision loss. But with proper diagnosis and management techniques low vision clinic at V-Trust eye care can help you adjust to life with limited sight.
Symptoms of low vision
Symptoms of low vision includes,
Low vision at different ages
The impacts of low vision in your life depend upon the age when you lost vision. Low vision in children, adults and old age people differ in causes and hence there is changes in the treatment modalities.
Low vision in children affects their quality of life. The difficulty to see impairs their education and cognitive abilities. The causes of low vision in children are amblyopia, birth trauma, brain injury, or cataract.
Low vision in adults within the age of 18 to 50 years affects their job and family life. If an adult feels difficult to view clearly, they will be mentally affected due to this. The reason for low vision in adults may be retinal dystrophy, eye trauma brain injury or brain diseases.
Low vision in older people is a burden for them and their families. Because it worsen the present condition of older people along with their other physical problems. Common causes of low vision in elderly people are macular degeneration, glaucoma, or diabetic retinopathy.
Most common types of low vision
Treatment for low vision
The Low Vision Clinic diagnoses and provides therapy for eye disorders that, if left undiagnosed, can lead to total blindness and cannot be cured even by surgery. Rehabilitation under the guidance of expert optometrists and counselors for diagnosing such eye disorders helps to make daily life comfortable.
We provide various assessments for vision, color vision, contrast sensitivity, and, for field of vision. Assessments are also done to identify the difficulty level of the patients in performing day-to-day activities and test the severity of condition with various low vision equipment.
