Goals  Review types of contrast sensitivity tests and their measurements  Discuss how contrast sensitivity tests should be interpreted  Discuss environmental and patient centered modifications Vision  Ability to see details, objects and their environment  Typically measured with high contrast charts  Snellen most common test in primary care  Test is typically given at 20 foot distance  ...

intraocular metastatic tumors have been increasingly reported in the recent past. unlike choroidal metastasis, metastasis to retina is very rare and so far has been reported in very few case reports only. case presentation : a 56 year-old male who presented with a history of adenocarcinoma of the cecum and underwent lap colectomy for the primary cecal tumor, received adjuvant chemotherapy for a...

PRACTICE CHANGE: The nurse electronically addresses single or recurrent falls, normal or abnormal Get Up and Go Test, recent fall circumstances, patient injury and treatment, assistive devices, difficulty walking, medications, vision changes, shortness of breath and dizziness. The provider has a plan/action comment box to review/ adjust medications, educate environmental modifications, history,...

BACKGROUND Subthreshold depression and anxiety are common in the growing population of visually impaired older adults and increase the risk of full-blown depressive or anxiety disorders. Adequate treatment may prevent the development of depression or anxiety in this high risk group. METHOD/DESIGN A stepped-care programme was developed based on other effective interventions and focus groups wi...

PURPOSE Patients with primary microstrabismus have a high degree of binocularity, which suggests that their ocular misalignment may have a sensory rather than an oculomotor origin, as in large-angle strabismus. The purpose of these experiments was to determine whether microstrabismic subjects have sensory abnormalities that could give rise to a small angle of strabismus. METHODS The binocular...