Concussion & TBI Vision Care in Louisville & Prospect, KY
Persistent symptoms after a concussion may involve more than the eyes themselves.
Concussion and traumatic brain injury can disrupt the way the eyes and brain work together, affecting eye tracking, focusing, visual processing, balance, reading, motion tolerance, and visual endurance.
Lynn Family Vision provides specialized neuro-ocular evaluation and rehabilitation for patients experiencing persistent visual symptoms after concussion or TBI. Our goal is to identify the visual systems that may be contributing to symptoms, target treatment, and objectively measure progress over time.
WHO MAY BENEFIT?
Why Can Vision Change After a Concussion?
Vision is a brain-based process. Seeing clearly is only one part of it. The brain must control eye movements, stabilize gaze, process motion, coordinate both eyes, and efficiently interpret visual information.
After a concussion or TBI, these systems may become less efficient even when the eyes themselves appear healthy and visual acuity remains 20/20.
Tracking
Fixations
Focusing
Processing
Balance
Reaction
WHO MAY BENEFIT?
Common Visual Symptoms After Concussion or TBI
These symptoms can have many causes and do not automatically indicate a neuro-ocular disorder. A specialized evaluation can help determine whether visual dysfunction may be contributing.
Headaches w/ Visual Activity
Visual Fatigue
Slow Processing
Dizziness
Reading Difficulty
Busy Environment Intolerance
Light Sensitvity
Screen Intolerance
Balance/Coordination
Eye Tracking Difficulty
Visual Motion Sensitivity
Return to Work/School/Sport
WHAT IS NEURO-REHABILITATION?
Vision Is More Than Seeing 20/20
Clear eyesight is only one part of the visual system. The eyes must move accurately, maintain focus, work together, track objects, process movement, and communicate efficiently with the brain.
Concussion, traumatic brain injury, neurological conditions, and other forms of visual dysfunction can disrupt these systems even when the eyes themselves appear healthy.
Neuro-optometric rehabilitation evaluates these functional visual systems and uses targeted treatment to help improve how the eyes, brain, and body work together.
OBJECTIVE EVALUATION
What We Evaluate After a Concussion
Eye Tracking
How accurately the eyes follow moving targets.
Focusing
How effectively the eyes adjust and maintain clear vision at different distances.
Visual Motion
How comfortably the visual system handles movement and visually busy environments.
Saccades
How quickly and accurately the eyes move from one target to another.
Eye Teaming
How well both eyes coordinate and work together.
Balance & Coordination
How visual information interacts with movement, posture, and spatial awareness.
Fixations
The ability to maintain stable visual attention on a target.
Visual Processing
How efficiently the brain interprets and responds to visual information.
Reaction & Response
How efficiently the visual system identifies and responds to changing information.
OBJECTIVE TESTING
Not Just Symptom Reporting
Symptoms matter, but they are only part of the picture.
Lynn Family Vision uses objective neuro-ocular testing to evaluate how the eyes and brain perform under visual demand. Testing may examine pursuits, saccades, fixations, target acquisition, reaction performance, and other visual functions based on the patient's needs.
These findings allow us to establish a baseline, identify areas of dysfunction, and measure change over time.
THE LYNN FAMILY VISION APPROACH
Measure. Identify. Treat. Re-Measure.
Evaluate
Symptoms, history, objective testing
Identify
Determine which systems are impaired
Treat
Targeted therapy, technology and recommendations
Re-Measure
Track symptoms and confirm objective change
TREATMENT
What Does Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Look Like?
Treatment is individualized based on the deficits identified during testing. Therapy may challenge visual tracking, fixation, processing, reaction, balance, coordination, and tolerance for increasingly complex visual environments.
Rather than using the same routine for every patient, activities are selected and progressed based on the patient's symptoms and objective findings.
Tracking & Processing
Eye movements & visual attention.
Visual-Motor Coordination
Vision combined with movement.
Reaction & Decision Making
Identify and respond to visual information.
Progressive Visual Demand
Increase challenge as tolerance improves.
SUPPORTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Light Sensitivity & Visual Overload
Some post-concussion patients experience light sensitivity, screen intolerance, visual overload or difficulty in visually complex environments.
Calm & Clear may be considered as an adjunctive visual-support option for select patients as part of a broader care plan.
THE REAL GOAL
Return to School. Work. Sport. Life.
The goal is not simply to improve a test score. Improvement should translate into greater tolerance for reading, screens, school, work, movement, visually complex environments and everyday activities.
YOUR FIRST VISIT
What to Expect at Your Initial Evaluation
1
Comprehensive History
Symptoms, injury history, daily challenges and previous treatment.
2
Objective Testing
Evaluate appropriate neuro-visual functions.
3
Review of Findings
Your doctor explains what appears normal and what may be impaired.
4
Personalized Plan
Treatment recommendations are based on your individual findings.
5
Progress Measurement
Symptoms and objective findings are reassessed over time.