Interventions for disorders of eye movement in patients with stroke

Source: Cochrane Library
Area: Evidence > Disease Focused Reviews
Background Eye movement disorders may affect over 70% of stroke patients. These eye movement disorders can result in difficulty maintaining the normal ocular position and difficulty moving the eyes appropriately. The resulting functional disabilities include a loss of depth perception, reduced hand-to-eye co-ordination, marked difficulties with near tasks and reading and reduced ability to scan the visual environment. They can also impact on the effectiveness of rehabilitation therapy. There are a wide variety of different treatment interventions proposed for eye movement disorders after stroke. However, in the past, there has been a lack of evidence specific to the impact of interventions on the functional outcome of patients with stroke.     Objectives To determine the effects of interventions for eye movement disorders on functional ability following stroke.     Search strategy We searched the Cochrane Stroke Group Trials ...