Deans' stroke musings: Stroke Survivors Recovering Lost Vision With Non-Invasive Light Therapy

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Stroke Survivors Recovering Lost Vision With Non-Invasive Light Therapy

I don't know anyone who tried this but here it is if it can help you.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/225292.php
Here is the companies website:
http://www.novavision.com/Home.html

Statistics show that stroke is a leading cause of serious long-term disability and, although each person is unique, stroke can affect people similarly with comparable disabilities such as partial blindness due to visual field loss - a condition previously believed to be untreatable. In honor of National Stroke Awareness Month, NovaVision, Inc. offers inspirational stroke survivor stories of vision recovery through the use of its clinically supported, light stimulation-based Vision Restoration Therapy (VRT) - and how this non-invasive treatment course has improved their sight, and overall quality of life.

"While science shows that the brain can produce minimal spontaneous recovery within the first few months after a stroke occurs, some patients plateau and the words, 'there's nothing else that can be done' can be extremely disheartening,"notes Tom Bridges, NovaVision vice president of sales and marketing. "Vision Restoration Therapy (VRT) is a non-invasive approach to 'rewire' the visual nerves, aiming the healthy neurons to perform the function of those damaged or destroyed by a stroke - resulting in a wider visual field."

Bridges continues, "While speech, physical and occupational therapies are the long-standing treatment regimens for stroke and brain trauma patients, vision rehabilitation has been an unmet need in the paradigm. Our non-invasive Vision Restoration Therapy (VRT) is an exciting option for those patients that are left with a field loss of vision as a result of neurological trauma. VRT is supported by 15 years of clinical studies and patient testimonials and is intended for the diagnosis and improvement of visual functions in patients who have suffered a visual loss resulting from stroke, traumatic brain injury ("TBI"), or other acquired brain injuries."

Stroke Survivors Regain Lost Sight

Retired physician Dr. Ramon is a middle-aged man who experienced a left parietoocipital CVA (stroke) in 2001 after having surgery for Coronary Artery Bypass. As a residual deficit of the Stroke, he suffered from homonymous hemianopsia (right side visual loss in both eyes). "I lost about half of my field of vision, and at that time there were no options available for improving my visual field." He notes. Having homonymous hemianopsia made it very difficult for Dr. Ramon to read, watch TV, and go to the movies - things that he used to enjoy easily before his stroke. In 2004, he decided to research on his own believing that there must be a better solution and this was not only as good as he would get.

While searching the Internet Dr. Ramon found information on NovaVision's Vision Restoration Therapy (VRT) non-invasive, clinically supported neurostimulation device. Intrigued, he contacted NovaVision's Patient Services and was referred to a neurologist familiar with the VRT program, Dr. Jose Romano M.D., at the University of Miami. After learning more about VRT Dr. Ramon decided to move forward with the therapy and began performing VRT in the comfort of his home for just 30 minutes twice a day.