The Low Vision Clinic at the Veteran Administration's Eastern Blind Rehabilitation Center is using Fresnel press-on prism lenses to aid veterans with extremely restricted visual fields. These prisms optically move objects from areas of visual field loss to areas of useful vision, thereby making objects with a potential hazard more visually accessible. Some of the dynamics involved in the placement of the prisms, training, and adjustment of the client to these lenses are described.
According to the National Commission on Diabetes, approximately ten million Americans have diabetes both known and unknown. Diabetes, being controllable but not curable, makes it mandatory for the diabetic to live with the condition on the best possible terms. In the past, the main emphasis has been placed on two of the three elements for diabetic control: diet and medication, with exercise coming in a distant third. Practical medical advice on exercise for diabetics is nearly nonexistent. Books on diabetes either casually refer to it and its relationship to hypoglycemia or fail to mention it at all. Very little in this regard exists to help the diabetic with his or her day-to-day control of blood sugar levels. Diabetes, known as “The Great Imitator” affects almost every organ of the body and complications are many and varied, as explained below.
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