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Visual impairment in stroke survivors

RBC | Approximately 65 percent of stroke survivors have visual problems. The impairments typically result in central or peripheral vision, abnormal eye movement and/or visual perceptual problems.

Symptoms may include blurred or altered vision, double or jumbled vision, loss of visual field, reading difficulty, inability to recognize familiar objects or people and glare.

Research found when visual assessments were performed 22 days after the onset of a stroke, 92 percent of those tested had some…