"Who do children live with?" "Do you wrestle when you walk?" "What color do you like to wear?" Even after twelve o'clock, in the Zhejiang Provincial Eye Hospital (Wenzhou Medical University Affiliated Optometry Hospital) Hangzhou Branch Low Vision Vision Vision Rehabilitation Center, the attending doctor Ye Xinjie is still questioning the child in front of him in detail, the consultation record is full of pages, and this quiet sitting little boy is all Ye Xinjie's fifth patient today. Half a day low vision clinic, the doctor only sees five numbers. There is a heart-warming story behind the limit number.
Behind the limit is "ingenuity", a space designed for low-vision groups
Ten years ago, when the Hangzhou Branch of Zhejiang Provincial Eye Hospital was established, it specially opened a low vision vision rehabilitation center, which is also the location of the Hangzhou Ren'ai Home Low Vision Rehabilitation Guidance Center, which is one of the few exclusive spaces in China specifically set up for low vision groups.
Low vision is a visual impairment that cannot be improved by standard refractive correction, medication, or surgery, but still has the potential to use its residual visual function to participate in life and work. There are many causes of low vision, such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, congenital cataracts, retinopathy of prematurity, myopia degeneration and hemianopia.
"Because the patients who come to the low vision clinic are children, these children are less visually introverted, the cooperation of related examinations is not high, we have to encourage the child while checking, in addition, there are many elements to consider for low vision rehabilitation, we have to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the child's living environment and vision, so a child often spends four or five times more time than other patients." Ye Xinjie said.
Each clinic and classroom door has a touchable Braille and special design of handrails
"We want to let more low-vision groups and families know through outpatient clinics, science popularization, and public welfare activities over the years: some low-vision children, such as congenital cataract children, can restore normal vision after standardized surgical treatment and visual rehabilitation training; and some low-vision groups can participate in normal life and work through rehabilitation training and using residual vision." Professor Zhao Yun'e, vice president of the Provincial Eye Hospital, talked about the original intention of opening the center.
Walking in this brightly colored space, for children with low vision, there are special classrooms, life scene simulation rooms, psychological counseling rooms, special examination rooms, etc., and even the road at the door is a blind lane design, extending to various spaces, the reporter touches the handle at the door of the clinic, bumps and bumps, Dr. Ye explained, each clinic and classroom door have touchable Braille, to help low-vision and blind friends walk safely and obtain information.
Blind lane facilities at the Low Vision Vision Rehabilitation Center
Over the years, the doctors of the Low Vision Rehabilitation Center have also carried out regular examinations and life training in special schools such as Zhejiang Blind School, Yang Ayazi School, Sunshine Love Language Training Center, etc., carried out vision screening and visual aid fitting activities for more than 670 children, and also joined hands with the International Special Olympics Organization to strive for "visual rehabilitation of the mentally handicapped".
"Spend effort" outside the clinic and use patience to water the bright future
Although the number of patients in each outpatient clinic is small, more follow-up and follow-up are "hidden" offline, regular follow-up and follow-up, and doctors use more patience and perseverance to pour out the happy fruits of life.
Quanquan this year in the first grade of primary school, a year and a half ago, he and his mother found a low vision rehabilitation clinic Dr. Ye, the child because of congenital optic nerve atrophy, both eyesight are below 0.1, the family took him everywhere to see a doctor, to the age of reading, even if sitting in the first row, can not see the words on the blackboard, the family is helpless. "We equipped him with electronic visual aids, took him to simulate life scenes in the clinic, taught him the method of strain, every few months, the child's mother will send us a WeChat message of good news, today the baby will jump rope, learn to swim in the summer, and the child will step into the normal life learning trajectory little by little." Dr. Yip said.
In the low vision vision rehabilitation center, there is another type of patient with poor vision, after the "marathon" visual rehabilitation treatment and training of doctors and parents, there is a high probability of getting rid of low vision. Xiao Zhou is 3 years old this year, this is a child who grew up watching Professor Zhao Yun'e and Dr. Chen Siping, a visual rehabilitation clinic. When Xiaozhou was 3 months old, congenital cataracts were detected; at the age of 6 months, congenital cataract surgery was performed by Professor Zhao Yun'e, "After removing the cloudy crystals, the child's eyes are in a state of ultra-high hyperopia, or can not receive clear images, if not corrected, the same will still form amblyopia, so rehabilitation after surgery is crucial." Professor Zhao Yun'e said. Three months after the operation, Xiaozhou's parents in the visual rehabilitation center, medical hands learned that they put hard corneal contact lenses on the 6-month-old child; after the eye development was relatively stable, at the age of 2 and a half, Professor Zhao Yun'e implanted an intraocular lens for the child, Chen Siping and other medical nurses with Xiaozhou and his family, learned to wear beads, pinch beans, and taught a lot of fine training movements of the hands and eyes, Chen Siping said: "Xiaozhou has 0.3 vision after surgery, a little progress, and now has 1.0 vision. Every review is a surprise. ”
At the beginning of March this year, in the third phase of the "Qiming Action" project of Zhejiang Aid to the Rehabilitation of Disabled Children in Xinjiang, as a participant, Ye Xinjie saw many children with low vision like Quanquan and Xiaozhou, "at the right age, standardized visual rehabilitation treatment has been carried out, and these children will have a bright and bright future." "With the popularization of eye health science with the output of high-quality medical resources in our province, more and more children will share the health dividend and grow up happily."
Professor Zhao Yun'e performs congenital cataract surgery on her child
【Source: Hang + News】