Vergence, accommodation, and visual tracking in children and adolescents evaluated in a multidisciplinary concussion clinic.

ABSTRACT: Many patients with concussion experience visual symptoms following injury that lead to a diagnosis of convergence insufficiency, accommodative insufficiency, or saccadic dysfunction. However, these diagnostic categories are based on aggregates of clinical tests developed from a non-concussed population and therefore may not accurately describe visual deficits in the concussed population. Thus, we sought to understand individual metrics of visual dysfunction in chronically symptomatic post-concussion patients. This retrospective cross-sectional study included patients examined at the multidisciplinary concussion clinic (MDCC) at Boston Children's Hospital over four years. Patients aged 5-21 years who had a complete assessment of eye alignment, vergence, accommodation, and visual tracking, a

SUBMITTER: Wiecek EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8145776 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature