{"id":339,"date":"2010-12-01T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T14:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=339"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:20:46","slug":"5-homonymous-hemianopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Homonymous Hemianopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homonymous Hemianopia <\/strong>This occurs when part or half of the visual field <\/strong>is lost.\u00a0The visual field is the whole area that the eye can see at any point.\u00a0Homonymous Hemianopia will affect\u00a0both eyes <\/strong>at the same time. It can\u00a0affect either in the right side of visual field in both eyes or the left side of visual field in both eyes. Sometimes a quarter of the visual field is lost, this is known as a quadrantanopia<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Hemianopia\"

Example of what a patient with hemianopia would see<\/p><\/div>\n

The person\u00a0may have difficulty when walking and bump into obstacles . They may not notice objects placed on the table at their affected side or knock over objects which they were unaware of near by.\u00a0Hononymous Hemianopia\u00a0can be very difficult for the person when they go outdoors. They may not be aware of all the people and objects around them. They may need supervision for safety until they have learned coping strategies\u00a0and techniques to adapt<\/p>\n

The person will be taught to scan and look to the affected side by using head movements\u00a0and eye movements to compensate for the loss of vision to one side.<\/p>\n

The person with Homonymous Hemianopia can re learn to scan and look to the affected side with practice and prompts.<\/p>\n

Reading can be difficult as the person may miss words or parts of sentences on the page. Sometimes it helps if the person uses a brightly coloured post it note at the edge of the page to scan towards. They may also use a typoscope<\/strong> which is card with a slit cut out to put over a sentence at a time.<\/p>\n

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A typoscope<\/p><\/div>\n

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Homonymous Hemianopia This occurs when part or half of the visual field is lost.\u00a0The visual field is the whole area that the eye can see at any point.\u00a0Homonymous Hemianopia will affect\u00a0both eyes at the same time. It can\u00a0affect either in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[194],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-visual","tag-homonymous-hemianopia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}