'Mild' Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion Syndrome Guidelines and ACC awareness of Neuro-Optometry vs Neuro-Ophthalmology in mTBI Rehabilitation and Care

Anthony Jordan made this Official Information request to Accident Compensation Corporation

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From: Anthony Jordan

Dear Accident Compensation Corporation
 
1/ Does the Corporation use the services and/or opinions of any professional that specialises in the field of Neuro-Optometry? The names of either individuals or clinics that are used and/or contracted would be appreciated.
 
2/ Please provide guidelines and any other useful resource information back to the first date that the ACC was founded, that solely relates to the prevention, care and recovery of mTBI and post-concussion complications.
 
3/ Is there at present or intend to be any investigations into mTBI and post-Concussion complications that are likely to either compliment the current July 2006 Guidelines or establish a separate set of Guidelines for mTBI altogether.
 
4/ Is there at present or intend to be any investigations into mTBI and post-Concussion issues with the intentions to be more in-line with modern day scientific evidence. for example: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
 
5/ If any of the above mentioned is unavailable due to information already available in public arena or no initiatives taken to investigate and research such Injuries and Impairments by the Corp, would the Corporation please provide the appropriate Archive centre to obtain Information and person(s) to submit recommendation to investigate such Injuries and Impairments for the purpose of insuring ACC are up-to-date and in line with Modern scientific research/findings
 
6/ Please provide Statistical Information supporting the rehabilitation success rates where either maintaining independence in a vocational sense and/or complete rehabilitation back to fulltime employment by partly or solely using Neuro-optometric and Neuro-Ophthalmologic services/clinicians
 
Anthony Jordan

Yours faithfully,

Anthony Jordan

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Please find a letter attached regarding your request for information of 11
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Mark Davis left an annotation ()

An interesting request.

To my knowledge a Dr Paul Dixon (Hamilton) was the only optometrist with this sort of Knowledge.

I now believe he is based in Palmerston North

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