March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, a time to shed light on an often overlooked connection between the eyes, the brain, and vision. If you or someone that you love in the greater Chicagoland areas has experienced a concussion, traumatic brain injury (TBI), or struggles with dizziness or double vision, Neuro-Optometry may be the missing piece in your recovery.

Understanding the Brain-Vision Connection

Your vision isn’t just about how clearly you can see –it’s deeply intertwined with your brain’s ability to process the world around you. When a brain injury occurs, whether from a fall, car accident, or sports-related impact, the delicate communication between the eyes and the brain can be disrupted. This can lead to frustrating and often debilitating symptoms including:

Double vision - Seeing overlapping or ghosted images that make reading or driving difficult

Dizziness and balance issues - Feeling unsteady, lightheaded, or off-balance when moving

Eye strain, headaches, and fatigue - Increased discomfort from screen use or bright lights

Difficulty focusing - Struggling to track moving objects or switching focus and attention between objects

Sensory overload - Feeling overwhelmed by busy environments like grocery stores or crowded streets.

For many, these symptoms don’t go away on their own and can linger for months or even years after an injury.

How Neuro-Optometry Can Help

At Eversee Boutique Eyecare, we take a personalized approach to neuro-optometric rehabilitation. Neuro-Optometry looks beyond 20/20 eyesight, and evaluates how individuals are using their peripheral eyesight, and how efficiently they are processing certain environmental sensory signals. When connections between the eyes and brain are disrupted due to a brain injury, it can lead to symptoms such as dizziness, double vision, and difficulty focusing. Our goal is to help restore these connections and improve your overall quality of life.

Through advanced testing and tailored treatment plans, we can help retrain your sensory system to function more effectively. By addressing the root cause of discomfort, we can help reduce symptoms and support long-term recovery.

Our treatment options may include prism lenses, which are special glasses designed to angle light in different directions. Prism lenses often reduce double vision. Vision rehabilitation involves certain activities that help build or rebuild certain visual pathways that may have been damaged after a brain injury.

The Importance of Early Intervention

When dealing with the effects of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), concussion, or other neurological conditions, early intervention can make a significant difference in recovery. Many people assume that their symptoms will resolve on their own, but lingering sensory disturbances like double vision, dizziness, light sensitivity and sound sensitivity can persist without proper treatment. By identifying and treating vision problems as soon as possible, we can speed up the recovery process and improve overall brain function.

Your Trusted Partner in Recovery

March is a time to bring awareness to the impact of brain injuries - and to remind you that recovery IS possible. We are dedicated to helping you regain clarity, balance, and confidence in your daily life.

If you’re experiencing vision issues after a brain injury, contact Eversee Boutique Eyecare to schedule your consultation and discover how personalized neuro-optometric care can help you regain clarity and balance. Call our clinic today in Winnetka, Illinois at 847.386.9045.