Acquired Brain Injury

About Acquired Brain Injury

Stroke or Traumatic Brain Injury or Concussion can cause many disruptions to vision and binocular eye control.

Behavioural Optometrists specialize in treating the following symptoms and Optometric Vision Therapy can help many of these symptoms and speed recovery.

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Symptoms

  • Avoidance of near tasks
  • Oculomotor-based reading difficulties
  • Eye tracking problems, losing place in a passage of text, words appearing to move on the page
  • Eye focusing problems, blur
  • Eyestrain
  • Headaches
  • Diplopia
  • Photophobia
  • Increased sensitivity to visual motion
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Vision-induced nausea
  • Visual inattention and distractibility
  • Short-term visual memory loss
  • Reduced concentration
  • Difficulty judging distances (relative and absolute)·Inability to interact/cope visually in a complex social situation (e.g., minimal
  • eye contact)
  • Inability to tolerate complex visual environments (e.g. grocery store aisles and highly-patterned floors)