Märta Berthold-Lindstedt, Jan Ygge, Kristian Borg
Dep. of Rehabilitation medicin, Dep of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, SE-182 88 Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: marta.berthold-lindstedt@ds.se

DOI: 10.2340/16501977-2218

Vision problems after acquired brain injury often remain undetected

Vision is a sense that goes without saying and so fundamental that it is taken for granted. After acquired brain injury many different vision problems occur but are often overlooked. The patient is tired, has stopped reading books and newspapers and finds it difficult to look at a TV-screen, but does not realise that these shortcomings are due to vision disturbances. In this study we have used a questionnaire to catch vision changes after brain injury. We asked the patients concrete and direct questions about their visual experiences after their injury. More than 50 % had experienced changes of vision. Before we used this questionnaire we were not aware of how common these problems were in a Swedish group of patients and hence not able to help the patients properly.