[Sportsandrec] Paid Research Study Participation

[Michelle Ouellet]

  I understand Retinal implants only allow dime light to come through. Do you have to have an intact blood supply to the retina for them to work?? Or do they communicate directly with the optic nerve??  Thank you
Ps please include yoga as one if the activities.  Tandem biking, too. Assistive skiing as well.  Michelle Ouellet

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On Oct 28, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Pamela Jeter <pamela.jeter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I am a researcher at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University in
> Baltimore, MD.  I’m writing because we are recruiting volunteers ages 10
> years and up who have 20/500 or worse visual acuity but have some remaining
> vision (including light perception) for a focus group study that will take
> place by dialing in over the phone or via computer from remote locations. The
> purpose of the study is to generate a list of activities that volunteers do
> with their remaining vision (for example, sports). Once we generate the
> list, we will then compile all activities from different groups into a
> single form and ask the volunteers to rank each item by level of
> difficulty.  We expect to conduct 3-5 one-hour sessions over a 3-5 month
> period.  We will pay $10 for each one-hour session. Please review the flyer
> with more information below. If you have any questions or want more
> information do not hesitate to email me at plovr at lions.med.jhu.edu or call
> me at 410-502-6434 (EST).
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Pam
> 
> 
> Researchers in the Lions Vision Center,
> 
> part of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins,
> 
> are looking for volunteers with almost no remaining vision
> 
> to help them design vision training activities.
> 
> If successful, these activities may help
> 
> nearly-blind individuals learn to see a little better.
> 
> In the future, blind patients with a retinal implant
> 
> may use these activities to re-learn to see.
> 
> That’s why we’re calling this program
> 
> Prosthetic Low Vision Rehabilitation, or PLoVR
> 
> (like the little bird at the top of this page),
> 
> and you can help make this possible.
> 
> If you are at least 10 years old and live within 2 hours from Johns Hopkins,
> we invite you to come participate in person, talk about how you use your
> vision, and help us design the activities.  There will be 3-5 one-hour
> sessions, and we may invite you to come for 20 or more practice sessions,
> spread out over several years, to try out new activities.
> 
> If you live farther away, you can participate by telephone.
> 
> There will be 3-5 sessions to talk about how you use your vision.
> 
> 
> 
> We will pay you $10 for each hour-long session.
> 
> To learn more about the study and to enroll, please call
> 
> Pamela Jeter at 410-502-6434,
> 
> or e-mail us at plovr at lions.med.jhu.edu
> 
> 
> 
> *JHM-IRB protocol # NA_00043449* – *Gislin Dagnelie, Ph.D. – Principal
> Investigator*
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