The Colorado Neurological Institute produces a publication called the CNI Review. The Fall ’05 issue contains a couple of articles that our group might find interesting. One is “Visual Disturbances in Parkinson’s Disease and Intervention,” written by an optometrist. All of the atypical Parkinsonism disorders in our group can experience these visual problems. I read about this today on a multiple system atrophy-related online support group.
Here’s what someone on that MSA-related online support group had to say about this article on visual disturbances:
“The important thing I got from the article was that double vision is
intolerable and it gives 3 options for treatment. To me the word
INTOLERABLE is what is important. We didn’t take my Dad’s complaints
seriously enough when he complained about the double vision. We just
thought it was one of those MSA symptoms that he would have to live
with. Finally, my Dad told the ophthalmologist himself and he was given
the prescription for the Fresnel Prism Overlay. Works well for him.”
You can find the full publication (5MB+) online: (takes about a minute to download, even with high-speed internet access)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060213033243/http://thecni.org/reviews/17-fall05-all.pdf
Visual Disturbances in Parkinson’s Disease and Intervention
by Thomas Politzer, O.D, FCOVD, FAAO
CNI Review
Fall 2005
The visual disturbances article starts on page 10 of the CNI Review (which is page 12 of the PDF). Ironically, in the section on reading difficulty and skipping lines, there seems to be a problem in the article. I think some text is missing.
Robin