Last week, Dr. Ho presented a few hours of continuing education on “Concussion Management for Optometrists” and “How to Better Serve Concussion Patients” to optometrists and the paraoptometric staff at Tennessee Association of Optometric Physician’s annual meeting in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This continuing education seminar provided clinical pearls of diagnosing and subtle clinical presentations of patients… Continue reading Concussion and Vision Problems
Tag: traumatic brain injury
Heart Rate Variability and Syntonic Phototherapy
Dr. Ho had the pleasure of presenting “My Approach to using Heart Rate Variability for Syntonic Phototherapy Assessment in a Highly Symptomatic TBI Patient” at the annual College of Optometrist in Vision Development (COVD) meeting in Toronto last month. Heart Rate Variability Heart rate variability (HRV) is the fluctuation of time intervals between heartbeat that… Continue reading Heart Rate Variability and Syntonic Phototherapy
Traumatic Brain Injury Empowerment Tour
Ho Vision Group is excited to host Cavin Balaster for his Nashville Kickoff of his Traumatic Brain Injury Empowerment tour. Cavin is a Neurotrauma Medical Advocate, Author, and CEO and Founder of FeedaBrain.com and Adventures in BrainInjury.com. The event will be at our office on Saturday June 12, 2021 at 1-4pm. If you or someone… Continue reading Traumatic Brain Injury Empowerment Tour
Vision Problems in Concussion
Last week, Dr. Ho presented “Concussion for the Primary Care Optometrist” at her local optometric society meeting (http://www.midtnods.com). This continuing education seminar provided clinical pearls and signs of the types of vision problems that occur following a concussion.Concussions are considered mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and are responsible for 7500 yearly ER visits in Tennessee… Continue reading Vision Problems in Concussion
What is Low Vision?
So what is low vision? Low vision refers to poor vision that is NOT correctable by glasses, contact lenses, surgery, or medicine. It can affect people of all ages, but is usually associated with older adults. Patients may describe this impairment in the form of missing vision, distorted spots, tunnel vision, or having legal blindness.The… Continue reading What is Low Vision?