Vision and Sensory Center

12/17/2025

Quite often patients receive their new prescriptions and don't really understand what they're reading.
This article offers a useful toolbox for folks looking to navigate how it all works and highlights the benefits of knowing your prescription.

Here’s how to decode your eye prescription so you know exactly what's needed for optimal vision.

10/06/2025

Aphasia is a language disorder caused by brain injury that affects communication skills like speaking, writing, and understanding words. The symptoms vary depending on the 🧠 area affected.

Here is more about aphasia:
•Language Impairment: Aphasia is a loss of language ability, not a loss of intelligence.
•Brain Damage: It occurs when specific language networks in the brain are disrupted by trauma, such as a head injury or stroke.
•Impact on Communication: It hinders a person's ability to communicate by making it difficult to speak, read, write, or understand language.

Here are some symptom examples:
•Speaking in incomplete or senseless sentences.
•Trouble finding the right words .
Difficulty understanding words used in conversations.
•Inability to read or write.

Overall, is a language disorder that affects a person's ability to communicate. It occurs due to damage to the 🧠 areas responsible for language processing, typically in the left hemisphere.

Learn more: https://aphasia.org/what-is-aphasia/ #:~:text=Glossary%20of%20Terms-,Causes%20of%20Aphasia,understanding%2C%20reading%2C%20or%20writing.

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05/21/2025

After more than 50 years, the medical community is moving towards a new TBI classification system. A coalition of experts has proposed a new way to evaluate TBI patients that is expected to lead to more accurate diagnoses and more appropriate treatment plans. The new classification system, called CBI-M, expands the assessment beyond immediate clinical symptoms, with new assessment criteria including biomarkers, CT and MRI scans, and additional factors. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3GYbylJ

04/23/2025

Identifying the problem is the first step! Does your child display any of these signs of possible vision problems?
-Tilts or moves head while reading or writing
-Covers or closes an eye when reading or writing
-Loses place, skips words or lines when reading or copying
-Uses finger when reading
-Complains of tired eyes/ rubs eyes/watering eyes when reading and writing
-Reads slowly and with great effort
-Poor comprehension
-Headaches when reading or writing or on computer
-Easily distracted and shows poor concentration

If your answer is yes to any of these behaviors, then the Vision and Sensory Center, a Behavioral Optometric Office, can help. Behavioral Optometry takes a holistic approach to vision care. The visual system will be accessed for eye coordination and focusing as well as comfort and performance for your visual needs. You are treated as a whole person and your visual problem as part of a whole system.

Give our office a call at (616)534-4953 📞

03/30/2025

The link attached offers TBI training for folks who want to be aware - how to assess, how to triage, and how to help.

This site provides structured learning opportunities on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI is one form of acquired brain injury (ABI) resulting from an external force such as a fall or a car accident. The site also provides information and advocacy resources for...

03/28/2025

This is information that should be widely distributed - and why it's so important for folks who have been in accidents or hit their head in some other means of contact predicament to see a doctor, not only immediately after but in the 3-5 days post injury.

The common misconception is that all concussion symptoms are immediate. Science has proven that's not the case.

Concussion is the sudden but short-lived loss of mental function that occurs after a blow to the head. Learn about concussion symptoms and treatment.

03/25/2025

Can you suffer the effects of a brain injury years after the actual sustained injury? Absolutely.
The attached podcast episode talks about this very issue at an in depth level.
From the content narrative:
You suffered a brain injury from a bump, blow, or jolt to the head earlier in your life. Years later, you experience one or many symptoms: foggy thinking, memory loss, trouble sleeping, anxiety, depression, or personality changes. Are those symptoms related to your brain injury earlier in your life?

You suffered a brain injury from a bump, blow or jolt to the head earlier in your life. Years later, you experience one or many symptoms: foggy thinking, memory loss, trouble sleeping, anxiety, depression, or personality changes. Are those symptoms related to your brain injury earlier in your life?....

03/25/2025

Another solid podcast recommendation. The host is a TBI survivor who offers both insight and tools via guest data and anecdotal narratives.

A podcast discussing concussions and all forms of traumatic brain injury, PCS (Persistent Concussion Symptoms, a.k.a. Post Concussion Syndrome), CTE (chronic trauma…

03/24/2025

This entity is based out of the UK so some of the health services information will be varied, but overall their podcasts talk about life with a TBI and how to adapt and things that can build improvement.

A series of podcast discussions in which four people from south Manchester (Kavita Basi, Vanessa Robinson, Brooke Trotter and Rod Maxwell) discuss their experiences of dealing with the after affects of living with brain damage.

03/21/2025

Instead of informational podcasts made by one entity, here's a list of podcasts that are created by other people who either have a TBI/ABI or are caregivers for someone with a TBI/ABI - and a few of them cover both sides of the equation.

03/20/2025

For those who find benefit in streaming podcasts, MSKTC has done a series of informative episodes on a myriad of facets of life post TBI/ABI.

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03/19/2025

Something that we frequently hear from patient families is 'I wish there was a guidebook to help with these things' as most people are unaware of the symptoms of a TBI or ABI, or what life looks like during recovery.

Thanks to Mayo Clinic there now IS a handbook. You can find it attached at a PDF at the link below, courtesy of the BIAIA.