DISTORTING spectacles can help stroke patients with posture problems to
recover their balance, say researchers in France. They think that the spectacles
reset the patient’s mental map, and they hope the effect will lead to a
long-lasting cure for some postural problems.
People who have a stroke affecting the brain’s right hemisphere may suffer
paralysis down their left side and can lean to the right. They may also ignore
things they see or hear on the right. Caroline Tilikete and her colleagues at
the Lyon neurological laboratory of INSERM, the French medical research agency,
gave patients with postural problems spectacles…
