Vision Rehabilitation: Multidisciplinary Care of the Patient Following Brain Injury

This book was a literal answer to prayer. As a non-medical person, I bought this book in an attempt to help my sister determine where she could get help. After experiencing two concussions, her life was altered dramatically. This book gave me the information needed to determine what was going on in her head and impacting her eyes, and what type of doctor we needed to find. Finally, we did find an excellent optometrist that specializes in TBIs, and after nearly two years, my sister is on the path to recovery.Update: Also helping my sister is an atlas orthogonal chiropractor who adjusts one bone in the neck that will increase blood flow in the body including the eyes. Again, without this book we would not have gotten on the right path to discover that she needed a team of doctors following her injuries.

I would recommend this book to any and all readers who want to learn about vision rehabilitation for a brain injury Patient. I bought it to help me with the rehabilitation of my brain injured son. In my son's case it has been a blessing that we have achieved remarkable vision improvements without surgery ! You should always consult a doctor but this gives you an educated head's up in being able to help understand potential vision problems and solutions. I even bought two of these books and gave the other copy to my son's therapist. We have read and discussed the different chapters together to the patient's benefit ! Skip Wieland [email protected] with any questions.

This text is one of the few that is specific to visual dysfunction after TBI. Inclusion of dysfunction between the visual and vestibular systems is not often seen in such texts. Good choice.

I like to share this with students, colleagues and patients.

Drs. Suter and Harvey took on a very difficult task, assembling such a wide and varied array of professionals to collaborate on this textbook. I do not doubt the enormity of the project. It is a book written by clinicians for clinicians and they deserve praise for this book, which I think is fantastic.Each chapter has literally dozens and dozens of references from many different sources, most of them non-optometric journals. To my mind, this is encouraging. It continues to demonstrate the support of behavioral optometry in the literature, especially for the brain injured.Some chapters appear to be written primarily for optometrists while others are primarily for occupational therapists, though there is much information for each profession in every chapter. I suspect that this information would be as sought after in the occupational therapy community as it is in the optometric community.It is difficult to capture the breadth and depth of such an enormous work as `Visual Rehabilitation' in the span of a few paragraphs, and so this review could not mention in detail all of the clinical pearls contained within the book. The list of topics in the index includes fixation disparity, vestibular rehabilitation, dynamic balance, mirror neurons, whiplash associated disorders, accommodation, binocularity, oculomotor skills, among many others.The only criticism I have with the book is that a few of the hundreds of diagrams in the book are hard to read, as in the chart of the sequence of myelination in the human brain and the diagram of the major white matter tracks in the brain. Both of these diagrams are in the chapter on neural substrates of vision and are hard to read, but this could reflect a problem in printing. The rest of the diagrams are easy to read. But this criticism is insignificant compared to the overwhelming amount of good quality, highly researched and clinically useful information contained in the 498 pages of text. In short, this is a resource for the clinician who is involved in helping the brain injured patient.

My soon to be thoroughly dog-eared copy of “Vision Rehabilitation, Multidisciplinary Care if the Patient Following Brain Injury” by Dr Suter and Dr Harvey is my most treasured reference on the subject. It is, by far, the most complete and readable text that explores the subject from the viewpoint of multiple disciplines. On more than one instance I have found information in this work that I could not find elsewhere (e.g. reference to photophobia as a consequence of TBI). That is why it has become my first "go to" reference on vision rehabilitation and, in my opinion, should be included as a required text for OT, PT, OD, and Vision Rehabilitation academic programs. Dr. Suter and Dr. Harvey did a fabulous job of putting this great resource together!