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macular degeneration, low vision, visual disabilities
macular degeneration, low vision, visual disabilities
The inability to read medical prescriptions, invoices and books top the list of complaints of people with low vision. However, with regular exercise people with low vision can train their eyes so they can read again.
Low vision is a condition caused by eye disease, in which visual acuity is 20/70 or poorer in the better-seeing eye and cannot be corrected or improved with regular eyeglasses or contact lenses. However, it is possible to improve vision with vision rehabilitation methods.
Simply Visio offers customized training with exercises that can be done at home. Simply Visio is a computer-based training software that can easily be installed on portable electronic devices.
The Simply Visio application helps people with low vision to regain their reading ability with easy-to-follow exercises.
The training offered by Simply Visio can help some patients to improve overall vision.
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How can Simply Visio help you?
macular degeneration, low vision, visual disabilities
The program starts with a self-assessment test measuring the patient’s reading ability. Based on the assessment, we design a customized training plan.
The Simply Visio exercises have been designed by experts with a long history in clinical research and hands-on experience in low vision. The program includes:
Vision rehabilitation procedure that is customized for each user’s needs.
Systematic, easy-to-hard exercises for 6 weeks, customized according to the user’s responses.
The training of the remaining healthy retina and the Preferred Retinal Locus (PRL) to read.
Re-establishment of the reading process from eyes to the brain.
Daily reading exercises in the comfort of your home
What stops people with macular diseases from reading?
macular degeneration, low vision, visual disabilities
If our eyes were a camera, our macula could be compared to the film. When our macula functions well, it collects images at the center of the field of vision, then sends these photographic images via an optic nerve to the brain. The brain recognizes these images, such as the face of a person, the name on a medicine bottle, the numbers on an invoice, or instructions on a prescription.
Vision is no longer optimal when the cells of the macula degenerate due to age and diabetes, or the field of vision is narrowed because of glaucoma or night blindness.
When the cells of the macula degenerate for any reason, images are not received correctly. We lose the ability to recognize faces, read numbers or letters, and function fully in daily life.
Macular degeneration often is a gradual process. At first, people may experience blurred vision or simply fail to see a part of the image. The blurred area or the gray, black or white blind spot in our vision is called the central scotoma. At more advanced stages of macular degeneration, people lose most of their central vision.
In some patients where the peripheral retina is still functioning, Simply Visio can help some to see and read again. The area can be trained through consistent exercises to act as a pseudo-macula that we call Preferred Retinal Locus (PRL).
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How can our Simply Visio training program help patients with macular degeneration read again?
age related macular degeneration
By using the visual capacity of the peripheral retina, some patients can develop a new area called Preferred Retinal Locus (PRL). Although the peripheral retina doesn’t have the same functionality as the macula, PRL can be trained to enhance the eyesight of people with low vision.
We should emphasize that recovering the capacity to read can only be possible through regular exercise. These can be difficult and slow in the beginning, but they are necessary to increase the capacity of the PRL, which has taken on a function it does not regularly hold.
