Current status and directions of vision rehabilitation in glaucoma / 中华实验眼科杂志

ABSTRACT

Glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible visual impairment in the world, leads to visual function damage that seriously affects the daily life activities and psychosocial function of patients, resulting in a significant decline in the quality of life.The life quality of patients can be efficiently improved through vision rehabilitation based on the residual visual function, but there is not enough attention paid to the visual impairment and vision rehabilitation of glaucoma.From a perspective of the epidemiological status of visual impairment in glaucoma at home and abroad, the universality and severity of the glaucomatous visual impairment was revealed.The characteristics of visual changes and corresponding rehabilitation needs of patients, the current situation of rehabilitation service supply, new devices that can expand visual field and the latest proven effective rehabilitation methods in light of the recent development of these fields were reviewed in order to provide certain inspiration and reference for the research of vision rehabilitation of glaucoma.