Performance Vision Training Center - Vision Source Specialists

10/29/2025

🤢 Why Brain Injuries Can Make You Nauseous — and Why It Doesn’t Always Stop

Nausea after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) isn’t “just in your head.”
It’s your brain and body trying to talk to each other again after being thrown off balance.

Here’s what can cause it ⬇️

💧 1. Pressure Changes (CSF Imbalance)
The brain floats in fluid called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
When pressure drops or shifts — like after a skull-base injury or leak — it can make you dizzy, light-headed, or sick to your stomach.

🌀 2. Balance System Confusion (Vestibular Dysfunction)
After TBI, the inner-ear and eye signals don’t always line up.
Your brain thinks you’re moving even when you’re not — causing motion-sickness-like nausea that can last for months or even years.

⚡ 3. Nerve Overload (Vagus & Brainstem Irritation)
The nerves that control nausea and digestion can stay “stuck on.”
Even normal movement or sound can trigger waves of sickness.

💙 4. Body Stress (Autonomic Dysregulation)
The TBI can disturb the system that controls heartbeat, digestion, and temperature — making nausea flare up with stress, standing, or fatigue.

👉 Bottom line:
Persistent nausea after TBI is neurological, not psychological.
It’s your brain struggling to find balance again — and it deserves real treatment, not dismissal.

If you’re living with it, you’re not weak — you’re surviving something your brain is still fighting to fix. 💜

10/02/2025

If you have suffered from a concussion, we are here to help you.

"Half of young people with concussions develop vision problems — but 12 weeks of targeted therapy restored normal sight in 90% of patients. Strong evidence for making vision rehab standard in concussion care."

Concussions can leave lasting effects on vision, with nearly half of young patients experiencing disorders that disrupt daily life and delay return to normal activities.

06/06/2025

We can help with everything from glasses and contact lenses to helping improve a critical component of your game, Vision

Well how about that: Since putting on his glasses, Max Muncy has become a totally different level of hitter. 👓

After nearly 30 games hitting with his specs on, after 28 without them, his batting average is close to 100 points higher, he's striking out half as much and has hit all 9 of his HRs with them on.

h/t Underdog MLB on X

05/31/2025

Any child that has a reading problem should have an eye examination to evaluate not just eye health and glasses, but for how vision occurs. This is called a functional eye examination that involves the evaluation of eye movements, accommodation, binocular vision capabilities, visual processing, and sensory integration. The neat thing is, that because "vision" is learned we can develop skills and motor patterns just like one has the ability to learn how to play a piano.

Oculomotor Dysfunction: Why my Child Skips Words, Can’t Cross the Midline, Experiences Double Vision

03/05/2025

90% of TBIs will affect the visual system. Neuro-optometric rehabilitation is an effective treatment to rehab the visual system.

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month – a time to observe the growing prevalence of brain injuries and to help make lives better for individuals who have sustained this kind of trauma. A Brain Injury is a serious condition, and many are not aware of the full scope of its effects.

The aim of this month(every month) is to educate people with our positive form of: Hope, Education, and Inspiration about the effects that a brain injury can have on the injured, their families, spread Awareness and Prevention to the general public, along with raising funds to assist etc.

What Is A Brain Injury?

•Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): sudden impact to the brain from a car accident, fall, assault etc

•Acquired Brain Injury (ABI): birth trauma, tumors, lack of oxygen, or overdose, heart attack, stroke

•Infection: such as meningitis or encephalitis

•Concussion: sports, car accidents, or blast injuries (common in the military)

Every single brain injury is different, and no two people are affected the same way. The severity of a brain injury is widely variable, as are the effects it can have on someone.

Millions of people globally are a part of the brain injury community and have varying levels of difficulty they manage every day. There are many resources available to help with the emotional, mental, and physical challenges.

If you, or someone you know, is struggling with the effects, please visit: tbionelove.org for more information or, email [email protected] to schedule a conversation to gain guidance

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02/13/2025

We are excited to have our new swing installed. Swings work great to help develop eye movements and integrate sensory systems for people of all ages.

08/22/2024

For the first time new research shows the effects of poor diet and sleep quality on the cognitive functions of professional gamers.

03/22/2024

If your child has had a concussion, schedule them for an eye examination with Dr. Pearson. 90% of all concussions affect visual performance.

A study led by Sainte-Justine hospital researcher Miriam Beauchamp has found long-term symptoms in children aged six and under who suffered a concussion.

12/17/2023

If you have questions about binocular vision dysfunction give us a call.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2023/12/14/binocular-vision-dysfunction-explained/71855796007/?fbclid=IwAR0aerQnuOcBthqmU95QvlXbmIvU05TafBKSdp8RU2gcQFVya0iRLS4yYY4

Although some eye doctors are skeptical, other providers say eye misalignment is associated with a host of debilitating symptoms.

12/13/2023

Are you looking to improve your baseball skills. Here is a great clinic next week we are excited to be apart of.

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07/23/2023

If your child has reading and learning issues it may be a vision problem. At the PVTC we help children with vision problems that affect reading, comprehension, learning, and attention.

Studies show how crucial your child's visual memory is to their reading ability. Most important system used for working memory, comprehension, letter recognition and recalling details.

07/03/2023

This is a great graphic to demonstrate the gut brain axis and it's relationship with a TBI.

Here is a great paper on the gut-brain axis and brain injury.

I remember the first patient that enlightened me regarding this topic. I could not believe some of the research and how much the gut was impacted if the brain was injured.

In medicine, practitioners are typically taught that each organ and part of the human body is separate...and functions separately...but this just confirms how interconnected every part of the nervous system is.

➡️If the brain is injured, the gut is injured.

➡️Heal the brain, heal the gut.

➡️Heal the gut, heal the brain.

Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.1002266/full