Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the major medical, economic, and public health issues in the United States (US).
Naveen Yadav, BS (H) Optom., M.S., PhD, FAAO, from our College of Optometry, with co-authors including Dr. Kenneth J. Cuiffreda (Dr. Yadav’s PhD mentor) have published an article titled “Objective Vision-Based Testing in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Bibliography” which is focused on providing information to the vision healthcare professionals.
The prevalence of TBI has increased due to ongoing and past war conflicts, and also due to greater recognition of sports-based concussions. Approximately 1.7 million people suffer from TBI in the US annually. TBI has been categorized into mild, moderate, and severe categories, approximately 75 to 80% of the TBI are of mild types. Most of the government research funding is allotted for mild TBI (mTBI)/concussion research. mTBI/concussion is a type of global injury, therefore, patients with mTBI/concussion have a constellation of general (cognitive, sensory, motor, perceptual, linguistic, and behavioral) and visual (oculomotor, abnormal visual motion sensitivity, and visual attentional) deficits. These deficits affect their activities of daily living (ADL). These patients have a team of interprofessional healthcare professionals to help them with these deficits.
This publication contains “a bibliography of objective, vision-based tests, by category, in the patient with mild traumatic brain injury”. This listing provides the major published clinical research papers and book chapters over the past 30 years which involves objective vision testing using different clinical equipment and protocols to assess visual deficits and also to assess the progression of these visual deficits after providing treatment to these patients. Thus, this publication will be helpful for clinicians to provide more evidence-based care to these patients with mTBI/concussion.
Dr. Yadav and Dr. Ciuffreda are collaborating on different projects related to patients with concussions. In addition, Dr. Yadav has a number of exciting clinic projects underway. Currently, he is starting a pilot clinical project entitled “Effect of Smoking on Pupillometry, Optical Coherence Tomography, Electroretinogram, and “Visual Evoked Potential in Mild TBI Population” for which he received a seed grant from the Western University of Health Sciences.
To read the article, visit https://pubs.covd.org/VDR/issue9-2/offline/download.pdf#page=57.