The main risk factors for falls are musculoskeletal and neuromuscular impairment, impaired visual acuity, hearing loss, use of psychotropic agents, diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease, dementia, depression, stroke-related impairment, vitamin D deficiency), use of alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, malnutrition, and environmental factors.
"I thought it was unusual to have a visually impaired visual arts teacher," said Patricia Tubridy, the principal of the Active Learning Prep School.
The patients with homozygous null mutations in NKX2-2 also have severe developmental delay, which affects both motor and intellectual function as well as more specific features, such as hypotonia, cortical blindness, impaired visual tracking, and hearing impairment.
Exclusion criteria were severe psychotic diseases, serious drug abuse, chronic degenerative diseases (dementia, multiple sclerosis), severe motor impairments (paresis in both arms), noticeably low intelligence, considerably impaired visual acuity (corrected decimal binocular acuity < 0.4 respectively > 0.4 LogMAR acuity) or inability to fixate.
Similar to AP, cases often display heterogeneous symptoms [35] which might include additional impairments, e.g. in the processing of biological motion [36] or impaired visual mental imagery [37].
As we left the market, she accidentally crashed the shopping cart into a pile of shopping baskets to her right — such accidents, when they happen, are always to the right, because of the impaired visual awareness to this side.
Impaired visual-related function associated with dry eye disease poses a significant economic and humanistic burden worldwide.
Psychologically, in addition to their low non-verbal IQ and comparatively spared language abilities, they display relatively good audiovisual memory but very impaired visual-spatial abilities, leading to difficulties in daily life (e.g., getting dressed).
Children treated with radiotherapy had impaired visual-constructive abilities and slowness.
This study also supported that impaired visual-tracking performance was related to injury of attention-related anatomical locations and diminished neurocognitive performance.
Turner syndrome is characterized phenotypically by short stature, gonadal dysgenesis, a range of anatomical stigmata, and a neurocognitive profile of spared or enhanced verbal abilities but impaired visual-spatial and social skills (Sybert and McCauley 2004; Bondy 2006; Kesler 2007).
