When you sustain a concussion or traumatic brain injury (TBI), your body enters a high-priority recovery mode. In nature, an injured creature simply waits and lets the body do its thing to recover. However, in our modern world, we often don’t have the luxury of "waiting it out"—we still have to go to work and maintain our life responsibilities.

Think of your brain like a phone running a GPS app: the battery is draining rapidly. Your body wants to dedicate as much of that "battery" as possible to healing, which means your attempts to function are running on a very limited charge. The ultimate challenge in concussion recovery is figuring out how to prolong that battery life.

Using Tints as a Battery Saver

Tints and other ophthalmic solutions act as a "battery saver" for your brain. By filtering the information your eyes receive, we can potentially limit how much energy your brain spends on non-essential tasks so it can dedicate more resources to your recovery.

While tints don’t "solve" the injury in a traditional medical sense, they are critical for maintaining functionality. We see many patients respond well to specific colors that dampen environmental triggers:

• Plum and Bluish Tones: These are popular for TBI because they make everything a little less bright.
• Reducing the Load: By using a tint, you don’t have to dedicate your precious battery life to combating brightness in your brain.

The Goal: Functional Recovery

Ultimately, the goal is to prolong your battery life long enough to maintain your daily responsibilities while your brain does the heavy lifting of healing itself. At Chadwick, we’re the optical nerds who help you manage the data stream so your "biological battery" lasts through the day.

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