Brain Injury

Service Description

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - There are many possible causes, including road traffic accidents, assaults, falls and accidents at home or at work. Requirements through the legal system involving compensation. Plus research, and report writing For travel to clients’ house, see our T's and C's Aquired Brain Injury (AQI) (inlcuding space and time and visual rehabilitation) This covers any insult to the brain where trauma is not involved but is an event of nature. Stroke or CVA is usually a vessel occlusion in the brain damaging the nerves and therefore the function. Typically there is visual field loss in BOTH eyes. This can be addressed with Peli lenses, yoked prisms and vision training. The location of the damaged site will dictate the field loss. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an illness that you might get after a serious and frightening experience, including: a natural disaster like an earthquake or flood, war, terrorist attacks, serious accidents, violence against you. The illness makes you re-live the event, which causes distress and difficulty in your day-to-day life. Your symptoms may become worse if you see, hear or smell something that reminds you of the trauma. Contact ruth@develpmental.vision for more information Hemianopia Following a stroke the field of vision may be affected such that only one half of the field is seen. It involves scanning to see a whole face. We can work with space expanding prisms and PELI lenses which shunt a chink of the world from the blind side into the sighted side, and works rather like a wing mirror.