High Rate Of Vision Problems After Traumatic Brain Injury Found In In Combat Vets And Others

Visual symptoms and abnormalities occur at high rates in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Vision-related symptoms, including difficulty reading, light sensitivity, more likely to have problems related to eye movement (saccadic dysfunction), blurred vision caused by focusing problems (accommodative dysfunction) and problems moving the eyes together to focus on near objects (convergence insufficiency).The high rate of visual problems occurred even though most patients had normal visual acuity.