In this episode, we talk to Elizabeth Rohrer, Occupational Therapist from Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, about noise and light sensitivity. Elizabeth gives us strategies and techniques we can use to reduce the assault on our senses that can occur after a brain injury. 

Elizabeth Anne Rohrer, OTR/L (Pennsylvania); BSc. OT Reg. (Ontario) is an Occupational Therapist with extensive experience and training in concussion and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. She is licensed in both Pennsylvania and Ontario Canada and works at Lancaster General Health’s Neuroscience Institute as the Lead Occupational Therapist in the Concussion Recovery Program. Liz also works PRN at Acadia’s Long Term Brain Injury Rehabilitative program and at Lancaster Rehab Hospital, advocating for early binocular visual assessments and intervention for patients with neurological injuries in order to improve and enhance patient outcomes. For 25 years, Liz has had a passion for our dynamic visual system and has advocated for a holistic treatment approach. Seeing a void in addressing the visual system in rehab recovery, Liz sought out specially trained Neuro Ophthalmologists and Neuro Optometrists to be an integral part of the team.

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