Low Vision
What is Low Vision
It's any degree of visual impairment
that significantly limits what a person sees and cannot be corrected with conventional glasses, contact lenses, medical treatment or surgery.
Those people who maintain
some degree of useful vision
and have difficulty performing their usual tasks normally (such as reading, watching television or sewing) can benefit from the adaptation of optical aids as a complement to the medical and surgical treatments performed.
What does the consultation consist of?
List of services
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Before your appointmentList element 1It is necessary to have had a recent ophthalmological check-up, where your regular ophthalmologist confirms that you have already done everything possible at a medical and surgical level. Keep your latest report, it's important.
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Low vision consultationList Element 2The low vision consultation with your specialized optometrist consists of: - Evaluating and quantifying your visual limitations. - Establish realistic practical objectives, so that you can return to carrying out regular tasks that you have had to abandon due to your vision problems. In subsequent consultations and according to each case, the following is addressed: - Optimize the visual rest to the extent of its possibilities. Ex: scotoma awareness training, eccentric vision, localization, better use of the new visual field, among others. - Prescribe the most appropriate low vision aids for your case. Personalized adaptation, management and utilities.
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Follow-upList Element 4Assessment of the evolution of the case. Utility and updating of prescribed low vision aids. To the extent that your visual activity demands it or your vision changes.
