Tech Doc: Traumatic brain injury could lead to visual effects - LubbockOnline.com
In 2010, 2.5 million traumatic brain injuries were diagnosed in the United States. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) can be a result of falls, motor vehicle accidents, assaults, unintentional blunt trauma or a variety of other events such as sports injuries and blast injuries in the military population. Of the patients that are diagnosed, 60 to 75 percent will report some type of visual complaint.
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MATTHEW R. MAHEK, O.D., is an optometrist at Texas Tech Physicians — Eye Clinic and an assistant professor for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
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