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Vision problems caused by brain injuries are not problems of the eyes, but problems with the brain’s processing of information sent from the eyes.

Vision therapy is used to treat vision problems caused by brain injuries and other neurological events, by changing how your brain processes visual information. Vision exercises are an important part of vision therapy, but these exercises are quite different to the kind for improving your vision on your own. The exercises in vision therapy are prescribed individually for each patient, and the results are closely monitored.

Vision therapy employs other tools, as well, including:

• Prescription lenses
• Eye patches
• Optical filters
• Computers
• Therapeutic lenses
• Prisms
• Electronic targets with timing mechanisms
• Vestibular equipment

The brain’s healing abilities

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change, grow, and heal. Vision therapy stimulates this ability. Many people believe that only children’s brains grow and change, but this is not the case. All throughout life we are developing new neural pathways; a physical change takes place in the brain when we learn something new.

Brain injury damages or destroys neural pathways – the connections in your brain – but they can be restored or replaced. This will happen naturally, to some extent. It is a normal function of the brain to compensate for loss of function. Vision therapy is a targeted stimulation of this process, encouraging and accelerating the formation of the new neural pathways you need to restore visual processing.

Restoring more than eyesight

Visual processing affects more than just what we think of as eyesight. It involves how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Balance, understanding of what we see, and reading are just some of the areas of life are tied to visual processing.

Misdiagnosis

Vision problems caused by brain injury can manifest symptoms which are misdiagnosed and treated with inappropriate therapies. Some of these therapies may be of some benefit, but do not yield the full potential of recovery. Others can do more harm than good.

For instance, a patient who is sent to physical or occupational therapy for loss of balance or hand-eye coordination may experience some improvement. On the other hand, if headaches are misdiagnosed, or if reading and memory problems are misdiagnosed as ADHD, you can wind up taking dangerous medications which do not address the problem, and which can cause serious harm.

If you or a loved one has suffered any type of traumatic brain injury in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC, please email or call our skilled brain injury attorneys at Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata, & Siegel P.C. today. We are committed to obtaining justice for you - the victim.

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