Neuropsychologist
 

For those of you who have seen a neuropsychologist, did you have to get a referral from a doctor? Also, what did they help you with? My Neurologist left me a VM saying there was nothing more he can do for me, my Opthalmologist said the same with more compassion, and my PCP is not helpful. At this point, I realize I am on my own with a treatment plan. From the Nora website, I was able to find an Optometrist who I believe will be able to help me with my vision issues. We are coordinating schedules now. My Physical Therapist identified my vision issues within the first 10 minutes and has been extremely helpful with Vestibular Therapy 3x/week.

As background, I was rear ended last month while stopped at a light. My head hit my headrest with a lot of force and caused significant pain on the back of my head.

CatOhio,

You don't say what symptoms you are still struggling with besides vision. What are you ongoing symptoms?

What is your PT doing for you besides vestibular exercise ?

For many Neuro Psychs are only used to diagnose problems with not many offering effective therapy. Some will prescribe anti-anxiety or anti-depressants to help with those symptoms.

Hi Mark,
The other issues are the fatigue, unable to do high impact exercises due to the jarring of the head that increases my dizziness, sound sensitivity, and short term memory. I'm not sure if other issues will appear once I go back to work, but this is where I am at now. I feel like I've been able to get my anger and anxiety under control from seeing a counselor and being able to focus on my breathing. I think that if I could get the vision under control, I could go back to work at least part time.

When I see my PT, he has me doing eye exercises with cards and stories. I also do these arm exercises while reading stories posted on the wall.

You are still early in your recovery. The high impact exercise should be easy to limit. Many do low impact exercise. If you have been trying to do high impact exercise then fighting the return of symptoms, this can easily prolong your recovery.

I would have expected you to say the PT was gently working on your neck, especially your upper neck. The headrest stopped the back of your head but not the back of your neck. Your cervical vertebra were jarred by the forces. Even if you do not sense neck symptoms does not mean you do not have an injury. My PT would use gentle traction then gently manipulate my upper neck vertebra until they would move smoothly.

She did other amazing therapies, too, even though I did not exhibit symptoms.

I have never heard of PT's doing eye exercises.

Ahhh yes, he does use this tool on my neck and scalp to increase the blood flow.

I hope you are not talking about Graston Rods. They are designed to help break up scar tissue in muscles and tendons. Using them on the head and neck would be a bit aggressive in my view.

Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pneNFQiCJFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavN6Es7Ing

Yes, he uses the Graston tool on my neck and something else on my scalp. It definitely is tender when he uses it on my left side. At times, it makes me gag.