Children's Hospital Program
Concussion Clinic at Children's of Alabama
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Academic/University Program
UAB Eye Care mTBI and Sports-Related Concussion Clinic
📍 Birmingham, Alabama · ✓ Listing verified 2026-07-04
About
UAB Eye Care mTBI and Sports-Related Concussion Clinic is a concussion service based in Birmingham, Alabama. It is an academic/university program. The practice is part of UAB Health System.
The listed clinical focus includes Sports Concussion, mTBI, Vision Therapy and Return to Play. In this directory the listing sits under Vestibular/Balance, Vision/Neuro-Optometry and Rehabilitation/Brain Injury.
The practice sees athletes, children and teenagers and adults.
Staffed by faculty in the UAB Eye Care Pediatric Optometry Service, this clinic examines how vision is affected by mild traumatic brain injury and sport-related concussion. Testing covers eye teaming and tracking, focusing strength and accuracy, and objective measures of neuro-ocular integrity using pupillometry and optical coherence tomography. Patients include child and adult athletes, veterans and others with repeated impact exposure or an isolated mTBI. Faculty are also investigators in NIH-funded vision research and run a vestibular-ocular reflex laboratory.
Services
Vestibular/BalanceVision/Neuro-OptometryRehabilitation/Brain InjuryMultidisciplinary ConcussionReturn to Play/Learn
Clinical focus areas
ConcussionSports ConcussionmTBIVision TherapyReturn to Play
Details
Provider typeAcademic/University Program
SpecialtyNeuro-Optometry / Vision
Health systemUAB Health System
ServesAthletes/Sports, Pediatric/Youth, Adult
InsuranceAccepts BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama, Medicare, Medicaid, VIVA; vision plans VSP, Southland, Avesis, Superior.
Before your first appointment
Patients who contact UAB Eye Care mTBI and Sports-Related Concussion Clinic in Birmingham usually want to be clear on a few things first:
- the graduated return-to-sport steps — The standard stepwise protocol athletic trainers and team physicians follow.
- concussion signs in babies, toddlers and kids — What to watch for in a child too young to tell you what hurts.
- testing for a concussion at home — The danger signs that mean the ER tonight, and why no home test rules a concussion out.
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