If the visual system is inefficient, every task can seem difficult, using more energy than required. Very few in the health care professions, including head trauma rehabilitation centers, are adequately aware of visual problems resulting from Acquired Brain Injury and the visual-perception consequences. Unfortunately, this creates a gap in rehabilitative services, resulting in incomplete treatment and frustration for the patient, family and treatment team. The vision care professional can play an important role in the rehabilitation effort. Through vision therapy and the proper use of lenses, a behavioral optometrist specifically trained to work with Acquired Brain Injury patients can help improve the flow and processing of information between the eyes and the brain.
Vision therapy can be a very practical and effective.
After evaluation, examination and consultation, the optometrist determines how a person processes information after an injury and where that person's strengths and weaknesses lie. The optometrist then prescribes a treatment regimen incorporating lenses, prisms, low vision aides and specific activities designed to improve control of a person's visual system and increase vision efficiency. This in turn can help support many other activities in daily living. What is Behavioral Optometry Behavioral optometry is based upon the core principle that vision is a learned process and can be developed or enhanced at any age. As a member of the rehabilitative team, behavioral optometrists have extensive experience treating the vision problems stemming from Acquired Brain Injury.