Concussion Therapy and Vision Rehabilitation
- It is estimated that nearly 10 million brain injuries occur every year across the globe. Studies show that nearly 90% of traumatic brain injury patients suffer from visual dysfunction
- Out of 100 adolescents diagnosed with a concussion, 69% were also diagnosed with a functional vision problem.
- Visual problems can be often overlooked during initial treatment of a brain injury, symptoms may not fully present themselves until some time after the injury
- These problems may include but are not limited to the following:
- Blurred vision
- Eye focusing shifting between objects near and far may be compromised, along with ability to scan across a page (reading)
- Sensitivity to light
- Eye teaming your eyes may not work together as a team, potentially leading to double vision
- Reduction or loss of visual field
- Motion sensitivity
- Headaches with visual tasks
- Reading difficulty
- Difficulty with eye movements
- Post concussion syndrome occurs when various symptoms of the initial injury persist for an extended period of time. Post trauma vision syndrome can occur in addition to post concsusion syndrome
- Symptoms can include:
- Problems with the focusing mechanism (accommodation)
- Tracking (ocular motor function)
- Delayed visual memory/processing
- Convergence (how the eyes come together),
- Visual spatial distortions (visual-vestibular) along with associated neuro-motor (visual-motor output) deficits.
- Poor balance
- Headaches/migraines
- Inability to concentrate (reading/computer or even conversation)
- Dizziness/nausea
- Inability to tolerate crowded or busy places
- Disorientation
- Fatigue
- Delayed visual memory
- Visual Midline Shift
- Symptoms can include:
- Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation is a process for the rehabilitation of visual, perceptual, and motor disorders.
- This is an individualized treatment regime, for rehabilitation of visual, perceptual and motor disorders
- Therapy is not typically performed to ‘strengthen’ eye muscles, but rather is initiated to treat functional deficiencies.
- At Oasis Eye Care, Dr. Sharma specializes in the rehabilitation of brain injury patients:
- this includes injuries from, motor vehicle accidents, stroke, sports injury, whiplash, etc.
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- this includes injuries from, motor vehicle accidents, stroke, sports injury, whiplash, etc.
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