VIDEO: Optometrists already have tools to manage concussion patients
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ATLANTA — Primary care optometrists can manage patients with mild traumatic brain injury in their practices without the need for vision therapy equipment, Heidi Bell, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, said at SECO 2024.
“There’s a lot you can do from the primary care chair,” Bell, who practices at Elite Eye Care in Waukee, Iowa, said in this Healio video.
Useful in-office tools include lenses, prisms, FL-41 tints and low plus lenses, and home vision therapy activities include eye stretches and pencil push-ups.
“If the patient’s not finding the relief they want, that’s when we know we need to make that vision therapy referral,” Bell said.
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Bell H. Concussion management for the primary care optometrist. Presented at: SECO; Feb. 28-March 3, 2024; Atlanta.
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