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Faculty in the UAB Eye Care Pediatric Optometry Service provide exams to assess vision in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and sports-related concussion. Those diagnosed with mTBI and concussions are examined to assess eye teaming and tracking skills, focusing strength and accuracy and objective measures of neuro-ocular integrity, including state-of-the-art pupillometry and optical coherence tomography (OCT).

The clinic serves child or adult athletes, veterans or other individuals with cumulative impact exposure or more isolated mTBI.

With the passing of the Alabama state law that requires all student-athletes diagnosed with concussion to be cleared by a physician prior to returning to play, neurologists, orthopedists and neurosurgeons at the Children’s of Alabama Concussion Clinic have seen more than 1,000 patients with concussion in the last three years. Additionally, research from nationally recognized optometrists have shown that the prevalence of convergence insufficiency and eye tracking abnormalities is much higher in individuals with concussion.

UAB Eye Care faculty have been investigators in the Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial (CITT), which was funded by the National Institutes of Health. They now serve as as investigators in NIH’s CITT-Attention and Reading Trial.

Faculty also received funding to establish a Vestibular-Ocular Reflex (VOR) lab to study the VOR in mTBI. Research in the VOR Lab seeks to discover objective biomarkers indicating concussion and mTBI in athletes and veterans.

Directions and Parking

1716 University Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35233
Phone: (205) 975-2020

UAB Eye Care is conveniently located in the heart of the UAB campus at 1716 University Blvd and offers free, dedicated parking for our clinic’s patients in a lot adjacent to our building. Street parking may also be available, and UAB employees or downtown Birmingham residents may be able to walk to our clinic.

From I-65/University Boulevard intersection: Head north on University Boulevard. Continue north approximately one mile and stay in the left lane. Turn left into our parking lot just before 18th Street South. Press the intercom button at the gate, and tell the operator your name. You will then be given access to the parking lot. Note: Do not take the driveway for parking at the Eye Foundation Hospital, located to the right of the UAB Eye Care driveway.

From Red Mountain Expressway: Exit the Red Mountain Expressway onto University Boulevard heading south. Turn right into our parking lot just past 18th Street South. The parking entrance is the second driveway on the right. Press the intercom button at the gate, and tell the operator your name. You will then be given access to the parking lot. Note: Do not take the driveway for parking at the Eye Foundation Hospital, located to the right of the UAB Eye Care driveway.

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