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The know.

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And It is said that eyes are Windows
to the soul tom interest

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lieutenant Colonel mcnamara.

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These Windows are key to revealing
an issue affecting an average

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of one point seven million
americans each year.

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The vision disorders are common
was traumatic brain injury and

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a lot of times people
have a hard time.

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Explain what's what's going on with.

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A feel that using an
internet the clinic.

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Mcnamara demonstrate some of the
vision says one used to evaluate

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those experiencing traumatic
brain injury.

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When range of patients can include
deployed soldiers to experience

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of glass related event to something
as simple as an accident

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on the school playground they.

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Sometimes patients will the
counter climate thinking.

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They're disconnect and for a routine
exam really understand that

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they've been referred to us because
of their traumatic brain

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injury so.

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You we have to explain to them.
It's more than just covering

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one I and calling out the letters
because we may see perfectly

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fine with one at a time that as
soon as you uncover the I guess

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if they do not have good binoculars
function. They might start

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to see double or some blurring
and they have.

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And maybe they can't focus up close
and we have to explain that

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this might be causing some of the symptoms
they have like their headaches.

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But you know the blurring of a
distance in the near vision of

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the transition from distance to
near and these are things that

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we can work on a.

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Terribly and They feel more comfortable
and able to function

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in their C D thomas tree evaluations
from launch schedule regional

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medical center are being used as
part of wider research efforts

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on the relationship between visual symptoms
and traumatic brain injury.

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You you tell me when I started doing
the research will show that

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the earlier get someone and for.

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Room and they have those conditions
address that the better off

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than me.

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It is a lot of these soldiers don't
realize what's going on there's

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something simple that can be fixed
by a parliamentary back out

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to the red no matter the severity
or type of head injury might

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have experienced normal vision.
Exam is worth looking into the

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