Effects
Mobility can be difficult for people with homonymous hemianopsia. “Patients frequently complain of bumping into obstacles on the side of the field loss, thereby bruising their arms and legs.”3
People with homonymous hemianopsia often experience discomfort in crowds. “A patient with this condition may be unaware of what he or she cannot see and frequently bumps into walls, trips over objects or walks into people on the side where the visual field is missing.”5
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