Concussions and Vision in a Three and a Half Year Old

The most common symptoms with head injury very often are related to vision. There's more areas of the brain dedicated to processing vision than every other sense combined. Most testing after a suspected head injury is going to come back normal, meaning MRIs, CAT scans and CT scans. And then it's kind of like, all right, your brain is bruised, go rest and go take it easy.

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Dr. Bryce Appelbaum joins me again for the second part of our two-part series on why healthcare has it all wrong about the eyes. Today, we talk about how vision impacts sports performance. We get into concussions, how Covid can affect our vision, motion sickness, and supplements for the eyes.

Common symptoms of a head injury that are related to vision

Fatigue
Eye strain
Headache
Brain fog
Dizziness

About Dr. Applebaum:

Dr. Bryce Appelbaum is a pioneer in neuro-optometry passionate about unlocking life’s potential through vision.

His expertise includes reorganizing the visual brain post-concussion to return to learn and return to life, remediating visual developmental delays interfering with reading and learning, and enhancing visual skills to elevate sports performance.

Dr. Appelbaum has been featured on the front page of USA Today, in the New York Times Magazine, Bethesda Magazine, and as the cover story of OT Advance.

Dr. Appelbaum has worked with hundreds of professional athletes, numerous professional and collegiate sports teams, and countless amateur athletes to transform raw talent into honed performance through vision.

He also helps teams consider who to draft or sign as free agents based on assessing a player’s visual potential and identifying how far off they may be from operating at that ceiling.

He is the owner and managing doctor at Appelbaum Vision, PC, a private practice specializing in Vision Therapy and Rehabilitation with offices in Bethesda and Annapolis, Maryland.

Dr. Appelbaum is a board-certified Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Southern College of Optometry.

Dr. Appelbaum is on a mission to change the way the world views vision. He believes there is more to vision than just 20/20 eyesight and has developed programs to retrain the brain to revise the eyes.

In this episode:

How vision impacts sports performance. (31:07)
How improved vision can help people maximize their sports performance. (32:58)
How to elevate your young child’s sports performance by improving their vision. (34:56)
What a concussion is. (36:45)
How concussions impact vision. (37:13)
How long it takes to recover from a concussion. (39:05)
What to do if you get a concussion. (42:26)
How Covid has impacted our eyes. (44:10)
Why it’s preferable to buy higher quality blue-blocking glasses. (47:10)
A procedure to help with motion sickness. (50:50)
What vision therapy is. (53:50)
Foods that promote longevity of the eyes. (54:15)