Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Prism therapy may address tactile neglect

Jo opted to stay in bed again this morning. Once again she got up at 17:30, going to bed at 21:30.

I read another interesting paper by Masud Husain, about neglect and its treatment. One treatment, Prism adaptation, where patient wear prismatic lenses to “correct” their visual neglect. Interestingly he says that;

“…studies have also shown that prism adaptation is associated with improvements in representational neglect, neglect dyslexia, postural imbalance in hemiparesis, haptic neglect, and tactile extinction.”

He also says that, “Nearly all the patients who had prism treatment showed a significant improvement in neglect after the first session in virtually every task. Remarkably, this improvement increased in magnitude each time the patients were assessed up to, and including, five weeks after the last session of adaptation.

This is certainly something I shall be asking the therapist about.

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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.