Journal Club – Treating Oculomotor Disorders after mild TBI (November 2025)

Join Co-Founder Dr. Helena Esmonde PT, DPT, NCS and special guest Dr. Jacqueline Theis, OD, FAAO, FNAP as they discuss treating Oculomotor Disorders after mild TBI and answer viewer-submitted questions.

Jacqueline Theis, OD, FAAO is an optometrist with residency training in neuro-optometry, pediatrics and vision therapy, who treats patients of all ages with visual complaints and double vision due to development, brain injury and neurological disease. During her residency, Dr. Theis focused her training on evaluating and treating patients with visual problems due to traumatic brain injury, stroke, and other neurological diseases including multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, and Parkinson’s disease as well as treating children with reading problems, refractive and strabismic amblyopia.  

 She is internationally recognized as a leader in her field for diagnosis and management of oculomotor dysfunction in concussion, as well as prismatic correction of acquired and developmental double vision.  Dr. Theis’s mission is to provide a comprehensive neuro-optometric eye examination to help patient’s understand their visual system, where their symptoms are stemming from, and provide functional, evidence-based optometric treatment options to enhance a patient’s quality of life so they can get back to seeing and enjoying the things they love to do.  In addition to patient care, Dr. Theis also lectures internationally to optometrists and non-optometric healthcare providers in the field of neuro-optometry, concussion and oculomotor dysfunction, neurologic dry eye, photophobia, and pediatric vision problems, as well as consults healthcare and government systems on diagnosis and management of visual sequelae from brain injury and neurologic disease.  She actively participates in clinical research with multiple universities across the country, including a study in her clinic looking at the impact of endurance on the oculomotor system after concussion in adults in association with the New Jersey Institute of Technology.  For her dedication and work in neuro-optometry, Dr. Theis received the California Optometric Association’s Young Optometrist of the Year Award in 2019, and the Virginia Optometric Association’s Young Optometrist of the Year Award in 2022.  

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