This could be achieved by tabletop activities or sensorimotor exercises. The multicontext approach, which is based on the fact that learning is not automatically transferred from one situation to another. This involves practicing of a targeted strategy in a multiple environment with varied tasks and movement demands, and it incorporates self-awareness tasks. Case studies
Symptoms of Bálints syndrome were found in the case of a 29-year-old with migraines. In the aura before the migraine headache, she experienced an inability to see all of the objects in the visual field simultaneously; an inability to coordinate hand and eye movements; and an inability to look at an object on command. Symptoms were not present before the onset of the migraine or after it passed.A study of a patient with Corticobasal Ganglionic Degeneration (CGBD) also showed a development of Bálints syndrome. As a result of CGBD, the patient developed an inability to move his eyes to specific visual objects in his peripheral fields. He also was unable to reach out and touch objects in his peripheral fields. An inability to recognize more than one item at a time was also experienced when presented with the Cookie Theft Picture from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination.A 58-year-old male presented with Bálints syndrome secondary to severe traumatic brain injury 4-months post-injury onset. He had completed a comprehensive post-acute brain injury rehabilitation program. He received 6 months of rehabilitation services as an inpatient.
Optic ataxia
Optic ataxia is the inability to guide the hand toward an object using visual information where the inability cannot be explained by motor, somatosensory, visual field deficits or acuity deficits. Optic ataxia is seen in Bálints syndrome where it is characterized by an impaired visual control of the direction of arm-reaching to a visual target, accompanied by defective hand orientation and grip formation. It is considered a specific visuomotor disorder, independent of visual space misperception.Optic ataxia is also known as misreaching or dysmetria (English: difficult to measure), secondary to visual perceptual deficits. A patient with Bálints syndrome likely has defective hand movements under visual guidance, despite normal limb strength. The patient is unable to grab an object while looking at the object, due to a discoordination of eye and hand movement. It is especially true with their contralesional hand.Dysmetria refers to a lack of coordination of movement, typified by the undershoot or overshoot of intended position with the hand, arm, leg, or eye. It is sometimes described as an inability to judge distance or scale. As Bálint states, optic ataxia impaired his patients daily activities, since, while cutting a slice of meat...which he held with a fork in his left hand, ...would search for it outside the plate with the knife in his right hand, or ...while lighting a cigarette he often lit the middle and not the end. Bálint pointed out the systematic nature of this disorder, which was evident in the patients behaviour when searching in space.