Visual Improvement Following Visual Rehabilitation in Patients with Visual Field Defect After Stroke (Retrospective Study)

Homonymous hemianopia (HH) is a significant consequence of stroke where patients lose vision on one side of their visual field (VF). HH has devastating effects on patients' quality of life (e.g. loss of ability to drive and independence). Evidence suggests visual rehabilitation (VR) may improve visual function in HH patients but a considerable lack of high-quality research impedes VR treatments from being broadly administered. The criticism to VR has been partly raised from the lack of strict control of compensatory eye movements when VFs were tested in previous studies*.Our objective was to analyze the effectiveness of VR in improving VF defects and overall visual function in HH, retrospectively.