Head Injury Rehabilitation

Because the neurophysiology of the visual system is housed in the brain, there are nearly always visual consequences resulting from head trauma. They can be mild, and respond to treatment with lenses and/or prisms alone. Or they can be severely debilitating, and require months of visual rehabilitation. This is possible because the brain is eager to heal itself, and accelerates the production of new neurons, (brain cells).

The rehabilitation process is much like regular visual training, but with more emphasis on rebuilding balance and orientation skills, which are usually the primary result of trauma. Visual memory is also often impaired by head injury. This too is remediable.

Visual rehabilitation which is possible at any age, is successful no matter how long it has been since the accident. We recently rehabilitated a woman who was 20 years post trauma.